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The article presents information on professor Franz von Liszt. Born in Austria, he studied at the universities of Vienna, Gottingen and Heidelberg, was Privat-Dozent in Graz for four years, after which he moved to Germany, where he was professor of penal law, first at the university in Giessen, then in Marburg and Halle, until he was finally called to Berlin. It is, of course, impossible to review the whole of Liszt's life work to day, for he still stands in the heat of the battle for new ideas of penal law and his strength is still unbroken. But even at the present time one can say with assurance that he is the greatest modem jurist of Germany, one through whom thousands and thousands of men from all countries have been converted to a modern view of penal law and its administration, and thus have become bearers of culture into all parts of the world. As long ago as in 1878 his "Lehrbuch des osterreichischen Pressrechts" aroused merited interest, which was strengthened by his presentation two years later of the "deutschen Reichspressrechts." Even at that time his elan showed itself, his knowledge saturated with modern ideas that, in the year 1884, was most clearly put forth in the "Lehrbuch des Deutschen Strafreckts," which since then has appeared in eighteen improved and supplemented editions and has been translated into six languages.