Robert von Hippel explained

Robert Wilhelm Ferdinand von Hippel (8 July 1866[1] - 16 June 1951[2]) was a German jurist and University lecturer born in Königsberg.

Family

Robert was the son of Arthur von Hippel (physician) and elder brother of Eugen von Hippel and Richard von Hippel (1869-1918). He married Emma Bremer (1871-1925) in Strasbourg during 1894 and was the father of four children, including German-American physicist Arthur R. von Hippel. After the death of his first wife, he married Johanna von Koenen (1882-1965), the daughter of Adolf von Koenen, in Göttingen during 1927.[3] [4]

Career

After graduating from high school, he devoted himself to studying law at the University of Marburg, and in 1888 he obtained a doctorate in law. He subsequently worked as a trainee lawyer before becoming an assistant to Franz von Liszt in 1889. He became a professor at University of Kiel in 1891 and University of Strasbourg in 1892, before becoming a professor of criminal law at University of Rostock in 1895. He finally became a professor at the University of Göttingen in 1899. In 1914, he was promoted to privy councillor of justice.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. https://archive.org/stream/professorenunddo00univuoft/professorenunddo00univuoft_djvu.txt Professors and lecturers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665–1915
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20151128202914/http://www.goettinger-zeitreise.de/1950?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=14&sobi2Id=119 History of Göttingen 1951
  3. https://mrs.org/docs/default-source/careers/awards/arthur-robert-von-hippel-website/1-ancestry-and-early-years.pdf?sfvrsn=ddbce011_2 Arthur Robert von Hippel autobiography: Ancestry and Early Years
  4. http://cpr.uni-rostock.de//resolve/id/cpr_person_00002909 Hippel, Robert von - University of Rostock catalogue