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Francis Lieber (1800–1872)
Lieber, Franz (lē’ber). An eminent American publicist; born at Berlin, Germany, March 18, 1800; died in New York, Oct. 2, 1872. He volunteered as a soldier at fifteen, and was in the battles of Ligny, Waterloo, and Namur. He served also in the Greek war of independence, recording his experiences in ‘Journal in Greece’ (1823). He settled in the United States in 1827, and during the next five years was occupied with the compilation of the ‘Encyclopædia Americana’ (13 vols.). While professor of history and political economy in South Carolina College, he wrote the three great works on which his fame mainly rests: ‘Manual of Political Ethics’ (1838); ‘Legal and Political Hermeneutics’ (1839); ‘Civil Liberty and Self-Government’ (1853). In the beginning of the Civil War he drew up by order of President Lincoln the ‘Code of War for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field.’