Dr. Josef Redlich, internationally renowned jurist and law expert, died here today at the age of 67.
Dr. Redlich was professor of comparative law at Harvard University and a member of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague.
Born in Goeding, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, Dr. Redlich was of Jewish origin, but abandoned Judaism in 1903.
Dr. Redlich gained world fame as an outstanding expert in parliamentary law, the Government and administration of England and Austria. In 1906, he became a professor of history at the University of Vienna. Later he was a member of the Moravian Diet and the Austrian Parliament. The last finance minister under the Hapsburg regime in Austria, he returned to that post under the Buresch coalition of 1931.
Among Dr. Redlich’s best known works are “The Law and Technique of English Parliamentary Procedure,” “The Common Law and the Case Method in American University Law Schools,” “The Austrian State and Empire Problem,” and a biography of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
