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B. M. Telders (1903–1945)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

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Ten years ago, on April 6th, 1945, Benjamin Marius Telders died in the concentration-camp at Bergen-Belsen. With him the Netherlands lost not only an outstanding international lawyer but also one of its greatest sons.

The son of a well known legal family, Telders grew up in the Hague. Already, while still a student at the University of Leyden, he was fascinated by international law and an essay, written when he was twenty, on Robert Cecil's Treaty of Guaranty1 won an award from the Marburg Fund. At the end of his studies in the Faculty of Law he defended his thesis “Staat en Volkenrecht” (The State and the Law of Nations)2, in which he sought to rehabilitate Hegels legal philosophy. He attempted to show that the German philosopher was far from having been the grave digger of international law that he had hitherto been represented as being. When reading this book it is difficult to decide which is the more to be admired: the clarity of the exposition or the maturity of the legal thought.

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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1955

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page 123 note 1 Telders, Verzamelde Geschriften (Telders' Collected Papers) (hereafter to be called: V.G.), vol. III, pp. 126.Google Scholar

page 123 note 2 V.G., vol. I, pp. 175–304.

page 123 note 3 V.G., vol. IV, pp. 211–222.

page 124 note 1 Mémoires de l'Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé, Tome II, 3me partie, pp. 676691Google Scholar; V.G., II, pp. 1–6.

page 124 note 2 Grotius, , Annuaire international pour 1935, pp. 3787; V.G., II, pp. 64–104.Google Scholar

page 124 note 3 Völkerrecht und Völkerbund, 1935, pp. 534537Google Scholar; V.G., II. pp. 534–537.

page 124 note 4 Grotius, , Annuaire international, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 et 1940; V.G., III, pp. 27220.Google Scholar

page 125 note 1 Bulletin de l'Institut juridique international, 1936, pp. 128Google Scholar; V.G., III, pp. 238–267.

page 125 note 2 Nordisk Tidsskrift for International Ret, 1938, pp. 313Google Scholar; V.G., IV, pp. 280–291.

page 125 note 3 Oeffentlich-rechtliche Vorträge und Schriften, 1934, Heft 17, pp. 316; V.G., IV, pp. 1–20.Google Scholar

page 125 note 4 About the importance of Meijers see the article of Kollewijn in this Review, Vol. I (1953/4), pp. 349 et seq.

page 125 note 5 Readers who understand Dutch may be referred to the admirable articles Cleveringa wrote about Telders in the “Gids” 1945, pp. 4967Google Scholar and in the Introduction to “Telders' Verzamelde Geschriften”.

page 126 note 1 Hugonis Grotii De jare belli oc pads, An Extract by Telders, B. M., The Hague 1948.Google Scholar

page 126 note 2 V.G., I, pp. 66–75.

page 126 note 3 V.G., III, pp. 292–338.