Henry Abraham Wassenbergh ( Hattem, Gelderland, 16 August 1924 - 1 February 2014), known to his friends and colleagues as "Or" Wassenbergh, was a Dutch academic, professor of law, and writer.

Education

Wassenbergh earned a law degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1950. He studied international law at the Sorbonne and at the

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in Paris, France; and continued his studies in the Netherlands, earning a doctorate from the University of Leiden in 1957.Fenema, H. Peter van and Hanneke Hoek. (1992)
"Biography of Henri A. Wessenbergh," ''Air and Space Law: De Lege Ferenda: Essays in Honour of Henri A. Wassenbergh,'' pp. xiii
xiv.

Career

From 1950 through 1989, Wassenbergh was an official of

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). Since 1967, he had been a member of the Air Transport Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Wassenbergh also participated in the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) of the

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( ESA), the International Institute of Space Law of the

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) Air Policy Advisory Group, the ''Société Française de Droit Aerién,'' the Netherlands branch of the Legal Committee of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and the Netherlands Interdepartmental Committee on Civil Aviation. In this context, the title of one of his books seems prescient -- ''Principles of Outer Space Law in Hindsight.''Fenema
p. xiv.
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Asteroid named Wassenbergh

5756 Wassenbergh (6034 P-L) is a main-belt

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discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten,

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and

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.Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003)
''Dictionary of Minor Planet Names,'' p. 487.
/ref> This minor irregularly-shaped planetary body was named for Wassenbergh, who was Professor of Air and Space Law at University of Leiden from 1977 through 1994. The permanent designation was suggested by Prof. Wassenbergh's secretary and his colleagues at Leiden; and the announcement of this name was timed to coincide with his valedictory address at the university. He had been Professor Extraordinarius of Air and Space Law at Leiden since 1977, and Professor Ordinarius since 1991.

Honors

* Order of Orange-Nassau (Officer), 1969, Netherlands. * Order of Francisco de Miranda (Grand Officer), 1972, Venezuela. * Order of the Netherlands Lion (Knight), 1989. * Mérito Santos Dumont, 1991, Brazil.

Awards

* L. Welch Pogue Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aviation, 1995.

Notes

References

* Masson-Zwaan, Tanja L. and Pablo Mendes de Leon. (1992)
''Air and Space Law: De Lege Ferenda: Essays in Honour of Henri A. Wassenbergh.''
Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
OCLC 25874461
* Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003)
''Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Prepared on Behalf of Commission 20 Under the Auspices of the International Astronomical Union.''
Berlin: Springer.
OCLC 52152288
* Wassenbergh, Henri A. (1991)
''Principles of Outer Space Law in Hindsight.''
Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

External links

JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 5756 Wassenbergh
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