Engel, Salo (Universitätsprofessor)
* 1.7.1908 +
V: Fabrikant i. Frankfurt a. M.
abs. 1926
(JB WG)
1936 Promotion zum Dr. jur. an der Universität Genf: Artikel fünf und Artikel vierzehn Satz
drei der Völkerbundsatzung: Das Stimmrecht bei der Einholung von Gutachten des
Ständigen Internationalen Gerichtshofes durch Völkerbundrat oder –versammlung. Annemasse
1936
(DNB)
Dr. Salo Engel, geboren am 31.7.1908. Tod am 17.10.1972. Verheiratet mit Rosel, geb.
N. (* 7.9.1910, + 28.7.1973). Grabmal auf dem Neuen Jüdischen Friedhof in
Knoxville, Tennessee /USA:
(http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=63002201)
Salo Engel
was born on July 13, 1908 in Austria. He began
his higher education at the
University of Frankfurt, where
he graduated cum laude in 1931. He then worked as
a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main until
1933, when he resumed his studies at
the University of Geneva in Graduate Institute of
International Studies. He earned his
Ph.D in political science from this
institution in 1936, and continued on to perform postdoctoral work at the
Academy of International
Law in the Hague, Netherlands, in 1937. Engel began
working for the Geneva Research Center in
1937, where he remained until taking a position with the
Permanent Court of International Justice in 1941.
Engel emigrated to the
United States with his wife, Rosel Brauner Engel, in approximately
1947 and began working as a professor
of political science and international law at the
University of Tennessee. After his
naturalization in 1952, he held
temporary positions with Harvard University (1958-1959), Louisiana State
University (1967), and Middle
Tennessee State University (1971). He also served as the legal codification
advisor to Panama from 1955 to 1957. Engel died in Knoxville, Tennessee, in October
of 1972.
In conjunction with Hull's one-hundredth anniversary observance, UT
Professor of Political Science and
International Law, Salo Engel, supervised
the editing of a proposed volume
of essays evaluating various aspects of Hull's
career, especially his service as
U. S. Secretary of State during the Franklin Roosevelt administration. Among those contributing manuscripts for the proposed volume
were Senator Albert Gore (D., Tenn.), Stanley J. Folmsbee, James A. Farley, Dean Rusk, and
Averell Harriman.
The largest part of
this collection contains correspondence between Dr. Engel and numerous individuals who were chosen
to contribute manuscripts to the proposed volume.
Among those invited to participate
in the project were former Presidents
Johnson and Truman, former
U. S. Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, historian James Mac Gregor Burns, and former National Security Advisor Mc George Bundy. Other materials include correspondence documenting the publication and funding of
the proposed project, several unpublished essays on Hull and related topics,
and a proposal, initiated by Dr. Engel, for the establishment
of a permanent Cordell Hull
Memorial Research Center at UT. Unfortunately,
Dr. Engel's untimely death dealt a blow to the Hull project
and the volume
of essays was never published.
(http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead/0012_000426_000000_0000/0012_000426_000000_0000.xml)
On October 17, 1972, Dr. Salo Engel,
Professor of Political Scienec
at the University of Tennessee, was deprived of live by a sudden
heart attack. He leaves a widow, Rosel, and their only
son, Michael, now resident
in New York.
Dr. Engel was born on July 31, 1908 in Tycon, Austria; he emigrated tot
he United States in 1947 and became
a citizen of the United States five years later. He was a graduate of the
University of Frankfurt am Main; subsequent to his graduation
there, he received the degree of
Doctor en sciences politiques from Geneva University and the Graduate Institute of Higher
International Law, during which
time he served as assistant tot he Deputy Secretary-General of the League of Nations.
From 1947 to 1952 he was visiting professor at the
University of Tennesse where he was promoted to full professor,
beginning in 1952. From that time until his death he was a member of the
Department at Tennessee, with
the exception of the fall quarter
of 1967, when he was professor of political
science at Louisiana State
University.
During a two-year period, 1956-57, Dr.
Engel was the Legal Codification
Advisor on staff of the University of Tennessee Mission to Panama, operated under a contact between the Agency for International
Development and the
University of Tennessee. He was in carge there of
a staff of attorneys and assistants
which prepared a codification and an index of Panamanian
law in cooperation with the Faculty
of Law of the University of Panama. His work there was well received by Panamanian
legalists; during the two years
he made many friends among the
Panamanians, and with the facility
in language which always was a distinguishing characteristic he added to his command
of German, Frech, and
Englisch, a thorough knowledge
of Spanish. His stature in Panama was recognized by the unusual
award to him by the
Government of Panama of the Order of
Balboa.
From 1963 to 1965 he was on leave from the University of Tennessee on a Ford Foundation
Faculity Fellowship and then on a Rockefeller Foundation
Grant.
Dr. Engel was a student and devoted
follower of Professor Hans Kelsen, and one
of the works
that surely gave him the
greatest satisfaction was his editing of
a Festschrift honoring Professor Kelsen,
published by the University of Tennessee in
1964, under the title Law, State, and
International Legal Order: Essays in Honor of Hans Kelsen and edited by
him and Dr. R. A. Metall
oft he University of Vienna. Numerous
other publications in the form of articles,
rewiews, and books attest to
his devotion to scholarship in the field of
international law.
In the autumn of
1972 he was on the verge of taking up
his duties as Visiting Professor at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, when
death intervened. In the final rites that shortly followed,
his rabbi spoke movingly of his death
on the threshold oft he Promised Land.
(Nachruf
von Lee S. Greene, University of Tennessee, in: PS:
Political Science & Politics, Volume 6, 1973; S. 96)