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light: "Das moderue Kriegsrecht der civilisirten Staateu," 1868; 

 " Das Beuterecht im Krieg " ; " Das Seebeuterecht ins besondere," 

 1878; " Geschichte des allgemeinea Staatsrecht und der Politik," 

 1864; "Deutsche Staatslehre fiir Gebildete," 1875; besides many 

 brochures, as " The Right of War and the Usage of War," " Question, 

 of the Alabama," " Quality of a Citizen, from the Point of View 

 of International Relations " ; articles " On the Congress of Berlin," 

 " On the Pope's Responsibility and Irresponsibility according to Inter- 

 national Law " ; a legal opinion " On the Condition of the Jews in 

 Roumania." A number of editions, also, of earlier works, some of 

 them considerably enlarged, appeared in this period.* 



To M. Rolin-Jaequemyns of Belgium, and M. Bluntschli especially 

 belongs the credit of founding the Institut de Droit International, 

 which enrolls on its list of members honored names from almost all 

 countries where international law is studied. Bluntschli was one of 

 its most active members, — a learned and able reporter of subjects 

 referred to its committees, its president and vice-president on sev- 

 eral occasions. At the meeting of 1880 at Oxford he received the 

 Doctorate of Civil Law from that University. 



Laborious studies did not prevent a man so highly esteemed from 

 being called to discharge public duties as a citizen ; as a member of 

 the legislative body in Baden ; as a delegate from the German Empire 

 to the (unhappily abortive) Congress at Brussels for regulating the 

 laws and usages of war. He also took an interest in the religious 

 affairs of his adopted country. And here we may say that through 

 life he had been a Christian believer ; and that " though he could hold 

 neither the doctrine of Calvin nor that of Zwingle nor that of Luther, 

 he often avowed his attachment to the fundamental principles of Chris- 

 tianity." He was an active member of the Synod of Baden ; and, as 

 its president, was in the act of closing the session with the words of 

 scripture, " Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, and goodwill 

 to men," when an attack of apoplexy caused his death in his seventy- 

 fourth year. Few jurists, few publicists of our age have deserved so 

 honorable a mention as he. 



* These and many others not spoken of here may be found at the end of the 

 catalogue of his library, which his family offers for sale en masse. 



