Oskar Kraus

Oskar Kraus (24 July 1872 – 26 September 1942) was a Czech philosopher and jurist.

After the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, Kraus was put into a concentration camp; however, after he was released he fled to Great Britain.

[1][2] Family: During World War I, Kraus worked on topics in relation to war and ethics and wrote important works in the field of public international law.

Based on his ideas on law and duty he developed a juristic hermeneutics in the field of jurisprudence, and criticized historism and positivism.

Kraus was also known for his criticism of the theory of relativity, which was according to him an accumulation of "absurdities" (like the constancy of the speed of light) and "mathematical fictions".