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48 Acta Jur. Hng. 1 (2007)

handle is hein.journals/ajur48 and id is 1 raw text is: 1216-2574 / USD 20.00 ACTA JURIDICA HUNGARICA @ 2007 Akadimiai Kiad6, Budapest 48, No 1, pp. 1-4 (2007) DOI: 10.1556/AJur.47.2007.1.1 VILMOS PESCHKA (1929-2006) Professor Vilmos Peschka, editor-in-chief of this review, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences passed away on 25 July 2006 at the age of 77. He departed this life as a prominent scholar on legal philosophy during the period following the Second World War in Hungary. Vilmos Peschka was born at Budapest on 17 December 1929. He graduated from the Law Faculty of Ebtvbs Lorind University (Budapest), where he obtained a diploma summa cum laude in 1954. Between 1954 and 1957 he pursued postgraduate studies in legal philosophy. From 1 September 1957 he was a research fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences up to his retirement in 1999. Through little short of three decades from 1960 he was teaching civil law at the University of Budapest. In January 1958 he defended his candidate's thesis (PhD) entitled Basic Questions of the Theory of Legal Relations (A jogviszonyelmdlet alapvet6 k6rd6sei) and published by Kbzgazdasigi 6s Jogi Kbnyvkiad6 in 1960. His second thesis in Sources of Law and Legislation (Jogforris 6s jogalkotis) he submitted in 1968. He had not yet completed his 50th year when in 1976 he vas elected an associate member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in 1982 he became a full member of the Academy. Professor Peschka was the most outstanding Hungarian scholar of legal philosophy in the last third of the 20th century, one whose work was a worthy continuation of the activities of three Hungarian Neo-Kantian philosophers of law-Felix Soml6, Gyula Mo6r and Barna Horvith-, who had deserved recogni- tion even abroad in the first part of the last century. Professor Peschka's first greater works, his thesis in the theory of legal relations, had shown his greatest assets, primarily his ability to treat fundamental questions of legal philosophy in such a way as to enable both practicing lawyers and scholars to read his writings with pleasure and benefit. As far back as his early works he had broken with an even levelled criticism at socialist normativism. The fact that he had argued for recognizing the law-making function of the judiciary was

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