Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), the Twentieth Anniversary Death of the Professor

The second chapter contains a short biography of Professor Kelsen and outlines his activities in Vienna, Köln, Gebneve, Prague, again in Geneve and finally in Berkeley, California. The third chapter deals with Kelsen's work in the field of legal theory methodology and philosophy. The author divided the chapter into three sections, the first providing eight principal features of Kelsen's "Reine Rechtslehe", the second the development in histeaching, as reflected in the nine fundamental writings spanning eighty decades from the "Hauptprobleme der Staatrechtslehre" (1911) to the posthumous edition of the "Allgemeine Theorie der Normen" (1979).

In the conclusion the author describes fast dissemination of Kelsen's ideas all over the world, the translations of his writings into foreign languages, the close relationship of Kelsen's "Viennese School" with the "Brno school" (the normative theory of Professor Weyr) and the exceptional and unique fate of the theory.