Haan, Matthias Wilhelm von#
Haan, Matthias Wilhelm von, b. Vienna, Sept. 17, 1737, d. Vienna, Dec. 10, 1816, law scholar. President of the "Court Commission for Political and Judicial Matters of Law". His "Penal Code for Western Galicia" (1796) was the foundation of the Austrian penal code of 1803 and greatly contributed to the completion of the ABGB (General Austrian Civil Code of Law) in 1811.
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