Karl Eduard Otto

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Karl Eduard von Otto (born August 14, 1795 in Dresden , † April 20, 1869 in Jena ) was a German law scholar and university professor .

Life

Otto was born as the son of the Dresden mathematics professor Christian Gottlob Otto and enjoyed an upscale education and upbringing. In 1814 he went to the University of Leipzig where he studied philosophy , theology and law and found a fatherly friend in Christian Gottlieb Haubold . After his bachelor's degree in law in 1817, his master's degree in philosophy and his doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1818 he first went to the University of Göttingen , where he learned primarily from Gustav von Hugo , then to the University of Berlin to be inspired by Carl von Savigny . In 1819 the doctorate to Dr. iur. as well as the start of teaching as a private lecturer for "Encyclopedia and Methodology of Law" at the university there.

Otto became an associate professor in 1822 , then in 1826 a full professor of Roman law at the law faculty of the University of Leipzig. In November 1832 he accepted a call to the Imperial University of Dorpat as a full professor of law. He stayed at the university until 1858 and then retired in Jena . As early as 1855 he was appointed to the Real Council of State.

Publications (selection)

  • De Atheniensium actionbus forensibus , 3 parts, Leipzig 1820–1827.
  • (Ed.) The Corpus iuris civilis (Romani) , 7 volumes, Leipzig 1831–1839.
  • Commemoration of the 1,300 years of legal force of institutions and pandects , 1833.

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SURNAME Otto, Karl Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otto, Karl Eduard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1869
Place of death Jena