Cesare Beccaria: Von den Verbrechen und von den Strafen – die Rezeption des Werkes in Ungarn
Cesare Beccaria: On Crimes and Punishments – the Reception of this Work in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The work of Cesare Beccaria Dei delitti e delle pene (“On Crimes and Punishments”) has become one of the most influential and canonized opuses of the world history of law. It opened a new era in the history of the European criminal law. Its basic theories possess great prestige in the professional debates of our days in criminal law, as well. In a sense, it has become a sort of fashion, thus, the eventual interpretations of its cited thoughts diverge from the text of the original work and the former content to be mediated. To a certain extent, every significant intellectual work has a similar destiny. That is why it is to be considered to return to the original source and to recall the circumstances of the development of the opus and its contemporary assessment. That is our endeavour to tackle that briefly when we review the response of Beccaria’s most important work in Hungary. In this essay we tackle the most important stages of the publication of the work, the Hungarian translations and the career history of the work in Hungary. Furthermore, the essay outlines the statements of the Hungarian science of legal history. It refers to the further possibilities of the scientific elaboration of the oeuvre, as well.

• Details
• Contents