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Mar 18, 1798 Berlin Died on 02 Oct 1872 (aged 74)
German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher
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About Francis Lieber
- Francis Lieber (March 18, 1798 or 1800 – October 2, 1872), known as Franz Lieber in Germany, was a German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher.
- He edited an Encyclopaedia Americana.
- He was the author of the Lieber Code during the American Civil War, also known as Code for the Government of Armies in the Field (1863).
- The Lieber Code is considered the first document to comprehensively outline rules regulating the conduct of war, and laid the foundation for the Geneva Conventions.
