Herczegh Geza Gabor

* Nagykapos, 17 October 1928 – † Budapest, 11 January 2010 / jurist, ; university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990) ; ; His father was the chief judge of the Nagykapos District Court, and his later adoptive father was a historian. He began his schooling in his hometown, graduating from the Premontre Gymnasium in Gödöllő. Between 1947 and 1951 he studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Szeged and obtained a law degree. Between 1951 and 1967 he was a colleague of the Institute of Political and Legal Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, while he gave lectures on diplomatic history as a lecturer at the Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest (now: Corvinus University of Budapest). From 1967, he was an associate professor of the Department of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Janus Pannonius University of Pécs (now: University of Pécs), and from 1980, he was the head of the department. Between 1981 and 1987, he was the dean of the faculty, and between 1990 and 1993, he was a member of the Constitutional Court. Between 1993 and 2003, he served as the Hungarian member of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member in 1985 and a full member in 1990. He was a member of the Batthyány Circle of Professors. His main field of research was international law. Initially, he dealt with the connections between the colonial system and international law, and later with the role of international legal principles in international adjudication. He also examined the international enforcement of human rights, issues related to the protection of national minorities, and the international development of humanitarian law. He conducted interdisciplinary research in the field of sociology of international law. As an expert for the International Red Cross, he participated in numerous conferences and spoke on international law, humanitarian law and other issues. He also published a novel titled Tooth and Nail (2008). His daughter, Anita Herczegh, is also a lawyer and the wife of the President of the Hungarian Republic, János Áder. ; ; Main works: ; The Colonial Question and International Law, 1962, ; General Principles of Law and the International Legal Order, 1969, ; International Law (university textbook, co-author), 1976, ; The Development of International Humanitarian Law (also in English), 1981, ; Hungary's Foreign Policy 896–1919, 1987, ; From the Sarajevo Assassination to the Potsdam Conference, 1999, ; Our Litigation Legacy, 2005.