Bernhard Schlink
Law professor, Author
1944 –
Who is Bernhard Schlink?
Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer and writer. He was born in Bethel, Germany, to a German father and a Swiss mother, the youngest of four children. Both his parents were theology students, although his father lost his job as a Professor of Theology due to the Nazis, and had to settle on being a pastor instead. Bernhard Schlink was brought up in Heidelberg from the age of two. He studied law at West Berlin’s Free University, graduating in 1968.
Schlink became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and in 1992 a professor for public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin. He retired in January 2006.
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- Born
- Jul 6, 1944
Großdornberg - Also known as
- Μπέρναρντ Σλινκ
- Шлинк, Бернхард
- Parents
- Siblings
- Children
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Free University of Berlin
- Heidelberg University
- Lived in
- Bielefeld
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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