BLUNTSCHLI, bliint'shle, Johann Kas per, Swiss jurist and statesman: b. Zurich, 7 March 1808; d. Karlsruhe, 21 Oct. 1881. He studied jurisprudence at Zurich, later under Savigny in Berlin, and at Bonn. He became professor in the newly-founded University of Zurich in 1833; took an active part in the politi cal struggles that divided his country, and at first inclined to the party of reform, until the events of 1839 induced him tojoin the Con servatives, of whom he was, for a time, a leader. He was a councillor of state, and be came a member of the government and of the Federal Directory, and afterward worked for the formation of a moderate Liberal Conserva tive party in Switzerland. In 1848 he went to Munich as professor of civil and international law. There he published his
he removed to Heidelberg University, and be came a privy councillor of Baden, actively forwarding all liberal measures in the state. Liberty in ecclesiastical matters he had equally at heart; he acted several times as president of the Protestanten verein, and it was after delivering a clos ing speech at the general synod of Baden that he died suddenly at Karlsruhe. He was the author of valuable histories of Zurich and of the Swiss Confederation and of a number of works on law, being especially an authority in international law. He was one of the founders and in 1875-77 was president of the Institute of International Law at Ghent. His library is now possessed by the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore. Other works by him are Was moderne Kriegesrecht' (lft) ; 'Das moderne Volkerrecht) (1868), and 'Die Lehre vom Staat' (1875).