Died 1861-10-25.
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Friedrich Carl von Savigny
Friedrich Carl von Savigny was a German jurist and legal historian. He served as professor of jurisprudence and was rector of the University of Berlin in 1812–1813. Savigny was also a member of the Prussian State Council and, from 1842 to 1848, Minister of State for Legal Reform. He is regarded, along with Gustav Hugo, as a co-founder of the German historical school of jurisprudence.
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Born 21 February 1779 · Died 25 October 1861 · Q76892
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1861· 1 entry
1853· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1853).
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1851· 1 entry
And 1853 he published the two volumes of his treatise on the law of obligations, Das Obligationenrecht, mostly on what English-speaking lawyers consider as contract law
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1850· 1 entry
On the occasion of the jubilee of obtaining his doctor's degree, appeared in five volumes his Vermischte Schriften (Miscellaneous Writings), consisting of a collection of minor works published between 1800 and 1844
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1835· 1 entry
Savigny began his elaborate work on contemporary Roman law, System des heutigen römischen Rechts (8 vols
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1822· 1 entry
Was afflicted with nervous illness, which compelled him to seek relief in travel
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1820· 1 entry
Was made a member of the commission for revising the Prussian code
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1819· 1 entry
Became a member of the supreme court of appeal for the Rhine Provinces
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1817· 1 entry
Savigny was appointed a member of the commission for organizing the Prussian provincial estates, and also a member of the department of justice in the Staatsrath (State Council)
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1815· 1 entry
Savigny, together with Eichhorn and Johann Friedrich Ludwig Göschen, founded the Zeitschrift für geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft (Journal for Historical Legal Science), the organ of the new historical school
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1814· 1 entry
Savigny wrote the pamphlet Vom Beruf unserer Zeit für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft (On the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Legal Science)
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1810· 1 entry
Was appointed to the chair of Roman law at the new University of Berlin, chiefly at the insistence of Wilhelm von Humboldt
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1808· 1 entry
Savigny was appointed full professor of Roman law at Landshut
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1804· 1 entry
Married Kunigunde Brentano, sister of Bettina von Arnim and Clemens Brentano the poet
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1803· 1 entry
Savigny published Das Recht des Besitzes (The Law of Possession)
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1779· 1 entry
Born 1779-02-21.
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