Herbert Schambeck

Date of Birth 12 July 1934
Place Baden near Vienna (Austria)
Nomination 19 January 1994 - Honorary Member 10 February 2015
Field Public Law, Political Science and Philosophy of Law
Title Professor Emeritus

Most important awards, prizes and academies
Magistral Grand Cross with Ribbon of the Sovereign Maltese Order of Knighthood (1st class). Respective Grand Crosses (1st class) of the Papal Order of St. Gregorius, of the Distinguished Order for Merits of Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Sovereign Maltese Order of Knighthood, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Hungary, of the Greek Order of the Phoenix, of the St. Agatha Order of San Marino, of the Bernardo O'Higgins Order of Chile, the Crown Order of Belgium and Thailand, of the Jordanian Order of the Star, of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, Commander with Star of the Distinguished Order for Merits of Poland, the Bavarian Distinguished Service Order and decorations of all Austrian states. Order of the Rule of Law of the World Jurist Association. Member of the Academy of Sciences in Milan, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome. Member of the Association of German State Lawyers, the Catholic Academy of Vienna, the Accademia Galileiana Patavina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Padua, Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas in Madrid, the Rheinisch-Westfälischen Academy of Sciences in Düsseldorf, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the Vatican City. Dr. of Law h.c. of the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago de Chile, Republic of Chile, of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., USA, of the Charles-University in Prague, the Czech Republic, and the University of Wroclaw, Republic of Poland, of the University of Piteşti, Republic of Romania, Kiev University of Law of the National Ukraine Academy of Science, Republic of Ukraine; Dr. of Philosophy h.c. of the International Academy of Philosophy of the Principality of Liechtenstein, Dr. of Theology h.c. of the Papal Theological Faculty of Wroclaw. Theodor Cardinal Innitzer Award, Leopold Kunschak Award and Science Award of the City of Baden near Vienna.

Summary of scientific research
1958 Graduation to Dr. iur. at the University of Vienna and clerkship at courts. 1959 to 1964 Assistant of Univ. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Adolf Merkl at the Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna; 1964 Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna; 1965 Counsellor in the Department of Science at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce; 1966 Associate Professor of Political Science and Austrian Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Innsbruck; 1967 (spring term) Visiting Professor at the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, Fall term 1967. Appointed Full Professor of Public Law, Political Sciences and Legal Philosophy at the University of Linz until Oct. 2002. Guest lectures in Germany, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, Romania, Czech, Poland, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, USA, India, Thailand and Japan. From 1969 until 1997 Member of the Federal Council of the Republic of Austria (i.e. the Senate of the Austrian Parliament), from 1975 until 1997 Chairman of the Austrian People's Party (i.e. Christian Democrats) and continuously serving as President or Vice-President of the Federal Council; 1969-2007 Member of the Delegation of the Holy See to the General Conference of the IAEA; Gentiluomo di Sua Santità; 1993-2009 Consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Family; Honorary Member of the Italian Society of Catholic Jurists.