Hersch Lauterpacht (1897-1960) – droga do nauki prawa międzynarodowego

This paper aims to describe the development stage of Hersch Lauterpacht’s scholarly career. For the first time in literature it evokes the details of his education in a Polish Gymnasium no 5 in Lwów (now Lviv) (1908–1915), his studies at the Faculty of Law at University of Lwów – which was Polish at the time (1915–1919) and, also, at the Austrian University in Vienna (1919–1922). Efforts were made to show who, amongst the professors in Lwów and in Vienna, had influence on the formation of Lauterpacht scientific views – proving that it could be professor Stanisław Starzyński in Lwów, who was Lauterpacht’s first lecturer in the field of international law and Leo Strisower, whose lectures he attended in Vienna, and under whose guidance he wrote his doctoral dissertation on political science. The reasons that led to Lauterpacht to leave Lwów in 1919 before finishing his studies are also described. The latter part of this paper aims to answer the question whether Lauterpacht came to London as a scholar or still as an apprentice.