REDLICH, JOSEPH (1869-1936), Austrian historian and politician, was born in Goding, Moravia, on June 18, 1869. He studied jurisprudence and history in Vienna, travelled extensively, especially in England, and in 1901 published his first work, Die englische Lokalverwaltung (Local Government in England, 1904).
He afterwards became Professor at Vienna University, and sat in the Austrian parliament till 1911 as deputy for his birthplace. Both in the Austrian parliament in Vienna and the Moravian diet he did much to further the idea of an understanding between the German and Czech races. In 1905 he published another study of English political life : Recht und Technik des englischen Parla mentarismus (1905), Eng. trans., The Procedure of the House of Commons, 3 vols. (1907), a standard work on the subject and in dispensable to the student. During the World War he was politi cally active, and in 1918 was appointed minister of Finance in the Lammasch Cabinet. He then retired from active politics, to pro
duce Des oesterreichische Staats- und Rechtsproblem (vol. a 1920, vol. 2 1926), a history of Austrian domestic policy from 1848 onward. His other works include Das Wesen der oesterreich ?schen Kommunalverfassung (I 91O) ; The Common Law and the Case Method in American University Law Schools (1914); Oesterreichische Regierung stud Verwaltung im Weltkriege (Eng lish and German, 1925) and a biography, Franz Joseph von Oesterreich (1928). Redlich's attitude was usually rather that of a student of political theory and practice than of a pure his torian, and his works were apt to be too voluminous to be easily read; but they were founded on encyclopaedic knowledge, most carefully presented, and were exhaustive.