Bluntschli

Bluntschli, Johann Kaspar, born at Zurich in 1808, became professor of law in the university there. He took an active part in Swiss politics first as a Liberal, but after 1839 as a Conservative, though he presently adopted a middle course and endeavoured to form a Liberal-Conservative party. In 1848 he went to Munich as professor of civil and international law, and in 1861 transferred his home to Heidelberg. He wrote a history of Zurich, and another of the Swiss Confederation, and various treatises on legal subjects, the chief being his Allgemeines Staatsrecht. He was an ardent supporter of religious liberty, and as president of the Protestantenverein had just delivered an address at the general synod, when he died suddenly in 1881.