Abstract
The biographical monograph dedicated to the life and work of the leading representative of Czech criminal jurisprudence, professor August Miřička (*1863 - +1946), was published on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth. Professor August Miřička was one of a small number of Czech lawyers, who penetrated beyond their home area and provoked responses abroad.
The monograph discusses, for example, Miřička's authorship of the revolutionary concept of the tri-partition of the forms of criminal guilt (1902), his principal authorship of the draft of the Czechoslovak Penal Code from the period of 1921-1926, and his membership in the board of directors of L'Association Internationale de Droit Pénal in Paris. Professor Miřička was also the first chairman of the Czechoslovak Society for Criminal Law, the founder of the Criminological Institute of the Charles University in Prague (1926), chairman of the Commission internationale pénale et pénitentiaire, chairman of the X.th international Congress of criminal law and prisons held in Prague (1930), and the rector of the Charles University in Prague (1930-1931), etc.
The monograph maps in chronological order biographical and factual information, which have not yet been clarified, that concern not only the life of professor August Miřička, but also the history of Czech criminal law in general.