biography
| name: |
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von
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pronunciation:
[saveenyee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1779–1861)
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| biography:
| Jurist, born in Frankfurt, WC Germany. He studied at Göttingen and Marburg universities, became a law professor at Marburg (1803), and published a treatise on the Roman law of possession that won him European fame. In 1808 he was professor at Landshut University, and from 1810 at Berlin, where he became one of the most influential members of the faculty. He attacked the call for a German Civil Code, and was leader of the historical school of jurists, contending that law evolved from the spirit of a people and was not made for them. His teaching emphasized the continuity of existing legal institutions with past ones. His works include a treatise on the history of Roman law (1815–31), the foundation of the modern study of mediaeval law. |
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