Albericus Gentilis

Japanese: ゲンティリス（英語表記）Albericus Gentilis

1552‐1608
International law scholar. Born in northern Italy, he became a lawyer, but as a Protestant he fled to England to escape persecution from Catholics. Later he became a professor of Roman law at Oxford University. The main feature of his major work, De jure belli (1598), is that it takes up the theory of just war, which had previously been preached as a theological topic, as a purely legal topic, and provides an inductive argument based on documents and historical facts. There are many people, particularly in Italy, who claim that the major work De jure belli (On the Law of War and Peace) by the Dutchman Grotius, who is said to be the "father of international law," is merely a rehash of this book, and therefore that Gentilis is the true "father of international law."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1552‐1608
国際法学者。北イタリアに生まれ，弁護士となったが，プロテスタントのため，カトリックからの迫害を逃れてイギリスに亡命。のちにオックスフォード大学のローマ法教授となる。主著《戦争法論De jure belli》(1598)は，それまで神学の課題として説かれてきた正当戦争論を純粋に法学の課題として取り上げ，文献や歴史的事実に基づき，帰納的に論証した点が大きな特徴とされる。〈国際法の父〉といわれるオランダのグロティウスの主著《戦争と平和の法》は，本書の焼直しにすぎず，したがってゲンティリスこそ真の〈国際法の父〉であると主張する者が，イタリアにはとくに多い。

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