Robert Wilhelm Ferdinand von Hippel (8 July 1866Professors and lecturers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665–1915, Retrieved 2 March 2021 - 16 June 1951History of Göttingen 1951, Published 28 November 2015, Retrieved 2 March 2021) 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.Arthur Robert von Hippel autobiography: Ancestry and Early Years, Retrieved 2 March 2021Hippel, Robert von - University of Rostock catalogue, Published 11 October 2010, Retrieved 2 March 2021 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.
Works Die Vorschläge zur Einführung der bedingten Verurtheilung in Deutschland, Enke, 1890 Aktenstücke zum Strafprozess für Lehrzwecke, S. Hirzel, 1898 Willensfreiheit und Strafrecht, I. Guttentag, 1903 Verbrechen und Vergehen wider die öffentliche Ordnung, Liebmann, 1906 Deutsches Strafrecht, 2 Bände, J. Springer, 1925–1930 Die Entstehung der modernen Freiheitsstrafe und des Erziehungs-Strafvollzugs, Thüringische Gefängnisgesellschaft, 1931 Der deutsche Strafprozeß: Lehrbuch, Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1941
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