Von bogdandy max planck biography

Stefan von Bogdándy (Hungarian: Bogdándy István) (* 11 September 1890 in Kolozsvár, Hungary, † 4 August 1933 in Berlin, Germany) was a Hungarian physician and physical chemist. He was a close collaborator of Michael Polanyi.

He was born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania), to a noble Hungarian, Roman Catholic family. His father Alexander (Sándor) von Bogdándy (Hungarian: Bogdándy Sándor) was a government official.

He studied medicine in Kolozsvár, and worked as a teaching assistant at the Physiological Institute of the University of Budapest early in his career. He moved to Berlin in the 1920s to work for Fritz Haber at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry. In Berlin he became a close collaborator of Michael Polanyi. Together with Polanyi, he "developed the highly-dilute flame techniques pioneered by the Haber and Zisch into a powerful tool for studying simple reaction rates through chemiluminescence."

While he was known as Bogdándy István in Hungarian, he used the German version of his name, Stefan (von) Bogdándy, in international contexts, as was common practice among Hungarians. In German and English, the family name is often spelled Bogdandy without the accent, and the given name is sometimes also spelled Stephan. The noble particle von is also sometimes omitted. He was the father of the metallurgist and industrial executive Ludwig von Bogdandy and the grandfather of the legal scholar Armin von Bogdandy.

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Armin von Bogdandy is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He is currently a partner investigator in the excellence cluster “Normative Orders” at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main and a senior research fellow at the PluriCourts Centre for Excellence, University of Oslo. He was a member of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) appointed by the President of the Federal Republic and a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. He has held visiting positions at numerous international academic institutions, including the European University Institute (Jean Monnet Fellow), New York University (Global Law Professor and Senior Emile Noël Fellow of the Global Law School), the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Xiamen Academy of International Law, China. In 2008, he received the prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of foundations of law and economics from the Berlin-Brandenburgian Academy of Sciences, sponsored by the Commerzbank Foundation and, in 2014, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the highest endowed research prize in Germany, by the German Research Foundation.

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German legal scholar (born 1960)

Armin von Bogdandy (born 5 June 1960 in Oberhausen) is a German legal scholar. He is director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor for Public Law, European Law, and International and Economic Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Armin von Bogdandy's research centers on the structural changes affecting public law, be they theoretical, doctrinal, or practical.

Early life and education

A member of the noble Hungarian Bogdándy family, Armin von Bogdandy is a son of the metallurgist and industrial executive Ludwig von Bogdandy, and a grandson of the Hungarian physical chemist Stefan von Bogdándy. In 1978, he finished high school in Dinslaken and started to study law (1979–1984) and philosophy (1980–1987) at the University of Freiburg and at the Freie Universität Berlin before completing his doctoral thesis (1984–1986) on Hegel's Theory of the Statute; his PhD was supported by a scholarship of the Land Baden-Württemberg. In 1989, Armin von Bogdandy passed his second state exam in Berlin. From 1993 to 1995, he received a scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and qualified as a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (1996) with a work on governmental lawmaking, supervised by Albrecht Randelzhofer.

Career

Armin von Bogdandy obtained a professorial chair in Public Law, European Law, and International and Economic Law as well as Philosophy of Law at the University in Frankfurt/Main in 1997. In September 2000 he declined the offer for directorship at the Centre of European Law and Politics (ZERP). From 2001 until 2014, Armin von Bogdandy was a judge – and, from 2006 onwards, the president – at the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal in Paris.

He became one of the two directors of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg in October 2002. In May 2003, he became p

Curriculum Vitae

Armin von Bogdandy (born 1960 in Oberhausen/Germany) graduated in law and philosophy before obtaining a Ph.D. in Freiburg (1988) and qualifying as a professor at the FU Berlin (1996). He has been President of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal as well as a member of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) and the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. He has held visiting positions at the New York University School of Law, the European University Institute, the Xiamen Academy of International Law, and the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, among others. Armin von Bogdandy is director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (since 2002) and Professor for Public Law at the University in Frankfurt/Main (since 1997).

Research Interests

Armin von Bogdandy specializes in the general features of public law, with a focus on its structural changes, be they theoretical, doctrinal, or practical.

Selected Awards

Armin von Bogdandy is the recipient of the Leibniz Prize (2014), the Premio Internacional “Hector Fix Zamudio” (2015), the “Mazo” (gavel) of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights (2015), and the prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of legal and economic foundations by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (2008).