Somló Bodog

* Bratislava, 1873 – † Cluj-Napoca, 20 September 1920 / lawyer, university professor ; ; He completed his studies in Cluj-Napoca, Leipzig, and Heidelberg. Afterwards, he was a private tutor at the University of Cluj-Napoca (philosophy of law in 1899, politics in 1903), and from 1899, a professor at the Law Academy of Oradea. Between 1905 and 1918, he was a university professor at Cluj-Napoca, and in 1918 and 1919, the Károlyi government appointed him a professor at the University of Budapest (philosophy of law, international law). At the beginning of his career as a legal philosopher, he started from the positivist side and reached neo-Kantianism. First, he was one of the domestic representatives of Stammler's theory of "proper law", in his later works he continued the direction called "general jurisprudence", further developing the doctrines of Austin and Stammler, searching for the most general conceptual elements of law, which he also included certain social elements. Later - again further developing his theories - the fundamental tenet of his legal conceptual discussions was not the emphasis on morality, but on the significance of power, although he outwardly accepted the Kantian concept of the rule of law. Together with Ede Harkányi and Gyula Pikler, he participated in the founding of the Social Sciences Society. He committed suicide. Two of his books in German were published in Germany after his death. ; ; His main works: ; Parliamentarism in Hungarian Law, 1896, ; Legitimacy in Sociology, 1898, ; Principles of the Philosophy of International Law, 1898, ; State Intervention and Individualism, 1903, ; Zur Gründung einer beschreibenden Soziologie, 1909, ; The Problem of Value, 1911, ; The Theory of Correct Law, 1914, ; Plato's Republic, 1920, ; Machiavelli, 1921, ; Gedanken zu einer ersten Philosophie, 1926, ; Juristische Grundlehre, 1927.