Karl Engisch

Karl Engisch
Portrait 1968
Born(1899-03-15)15 March 1899
Gießen, Hesse, Germany
Died11 September 1990(1990-09-11) (aged 91)
Nieder-Wiesen (Alzey-Worms), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Alma materGießen
Munich
Heidelberg
OccupationsLawyer
Jurist
Legal philosopher
Political partyNSDAP
SpouseThekla Schudt (1900–1973)
ChildrenIrmgard
Renate
Parent(s)Friedrich Engisch (1871–1943)
Dora Urich (1876–1928)

Karl Engisch (15 March 1899 – 11 September 1990) was a German jurist and a Philosopher of Law. He was described by Hans Joachim Hirsch as one of the "outstanding theorists of criminal justice of the [twentieth] century" ("herausragenden Strafrechtstheoretiker des vergangenen Jahrhunderts").

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