Johannes Andenæs | |
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| Born | Johannes Bratt Andenæs (1912-09-07)7 September 1912 Innvik, Norway |
| Died | 3 July 2003(2003-07-03) (aged 90) |
| Occupation | jurist |
| Children | Mads H. Andenæs |
| Awards | Order of St. Olav (1986) Fritt Ord Honorary Award (1985) |
Johannes Bratt Andenæs, often shortened toJohs. Andenæs (7 September 1912 – 3 July 2003) was aNorwegianjurist. He was a professor ofjurisprudence at theUniversity of Oslo from 1945 to 1982, and served asrector from 1970 to 1972.
He was born inInnvik as a son of vicar Mads Olsen Andenæs (1855–1942) and Signe Theoline Mydland (1883–1958). He was a brother ofTønnes Andenæs. Hefinished his secondary education atStabekk in 1929, enrolled at theRoyal Frederick University and graduated from there with thecand.jur. degree in 1935. He worked as a deputy judge inMoss andHarstad before studying further, abroad. In June 1939 inHorten he married fellow jurist Ida Johanne Røren (1913–2008). He was hired as lecturer andresearch fellow at theUniversity of Oslo in 1939, and took thedr.juris degree in 1943 with the thesisStraffbar unnlatelse.[1]
Andenæs applied to becomedocent in 1940 and professor in 1942, at the University of Oslo, but his candidacy was rejected both times due to theGerman occupation of Norway.[1] He had participated in battles against theWehrmacht in theNorwegian campaign, being lightly wounded nearSkarnes. During the occupation, then, he marked himself as an oppositional person at the university.[2] When the Nazi authorities were about to change the rules for admission to the university, in autumn 1943, a protest ensued. In retaliation, the authorities arrested 11 staff, 60 male students and 10 female students.[3] The staffCarl Jacob Arnholm,Eiliv Skard,Johan Christian Schreiner,Harald Krabbe Schjelderup,Anatol Heintz,Odd Hassel,Ragnar Frisch,Bjørn Føyn,Endre Berner and Johannes Andenæs were sent toGrini concentration camp. Andenæs was first incarcerated atBredtveit from 15 October to 22 November, then atBerg until 8 December, then at Grini until 24 December 1944.[4]
In 1945 he was a consultant in theOffice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, where the work with thelegal purge in Norway after World War II had started.[1] He was critical to facets of this legal purge, especially the fact that mere membership inNasjonal Samling was punished harshly and howcapital punishmentwas used.[2] His 1979 bookDet vanskelige oppgjøret is about the legal purge.
One of his first releases after the war wasStatsforfatningen i Norge,[1] partly written during his incarceration at Grini.[2] He was also given his professorship, already on 29 June 1945 (the war ended on8 May). In 1946 he was elected as a member of theNorwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He served asdean at the Faculty of Law from 1959 to 1960 and 1968 to 1969, prorector from 1960 to 1962 andrector from 1970 to 1972, and praeses of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1977 to 1981. He was a visiting scholar at theUniversity of Pennsylvania (1963), theUniversity of Chicago (1968) andAll Souls College (1971), and heldhonorary degrees at theUniversity of Copenhagen (1970) and theUniversity of Uppsala (1977). He retired as a professor in 1982. He was alsoActing Supreme Court Justice for some time. He was a member ofStraffelovrådet, chairedNordisk kriminologisk samarbeidsråd from 1962 to 1965 andNorsk kriminalistforening from 1947 to 1957.[1] He served as a deputy representative to theParliament of Norway fromOslo, representing theLiberal Party, during the term 1958–1961.[5] In 1996 Andenæs publicly stated that Norway should decriminalise drug use, and that in the future, drug prohibition would be regarded as a wrongful use of punishment.[6]
He was decorated as a Commander with Star of theRoyal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1986.[7] In 1985 he received theFritt Ord Honorary Award.[8] He was also elected as a member of the exclusive social clubSK Ull in 1949.[9] He died in July 2003 in Oslo.[1]
Andenæs was the father of legal academicMads H. Andenæs, and through him the father-in-law ofEllen Holager Andenæs.[10]
This section lists his most notable works:[1][11]
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| Preceded by | Dean of the Faculty of Law,University of Oslo 1959–1960 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Dean of the Faculty of Law,University of Oslo 1968–1969 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Rector of the University of Oslo 1970–1972 | Succeeded by |
