The New International Encyclopædia/Gessner, Ludwig

GESSNER, gĕs'nẽr, (1828-90). A German jurist. He was born at Axthausen, and was educated at Halle, Heidelberg, and Berlin. He held important positions in the German Ministries of War, State, and Foreign Affairs, and wrote a number of valuable contributions to marine and international law, including: Das Recht des neutralen Seehandels (1855); Le droit des neutres sur mer (2d ed. 1876); Zur Reform des Kriegs-Seerechts (1875); &ldquo;Die Staatsverträge im allgemeinen.&rdquo; in Holtzendorff's Handbuch des Völkerrechts (1887).