Heinrich Triepel (12 February 1868, Leipzig – 23 November 1946 in Untergrainau) was a German jurist and legal philosopher.
[1] Triepel was born the son of Gustav Adolf Triepel, an authorized signatory and partner in an export business in Paris, and his Swiss wife Mathilde Marie Henriette, née Kurz.
His brother was the future anatomist Hermann Triepel.
Triepel attended Teichmann's private school and graduated from the humanistic Thomasschule in Leipzig in 1886.
He took critical aim at legal positivism, which at the time was the dominant legal conception in the German-speaking world.