Karl Friedrich Eichhorn

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Karl Friedrich Eichhorn
Göttingen memorial plaque for Eichhorn
Eichhorn statue on the main building of the University of Strasbourg

Karl Friedrich Eichhorn (born November 20, 1781 in Jena , † July 4, 1854 in Cologne ) was a German law scholar and university professor .

Life

He was born as the son of the professor of oriental languages, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn .

Eichhorn, as a representative of the Germanic branch, with Friedrich Carl von Savigny as the founder of the historical school of German law. With his German state and legal history , he presented the first source-oriented and scientifically developed overall presentation of German legal history in the modern sense. He received his doctorate in 1801 with the dissertation De differentia inter austraegas et arbitros compromissarios (procedural law).

From 1806 to 1811 he was professor of law at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt , from 1811 to 1816 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , from 1817 to 1829 at the University of Göttingen and from 1832 to 1833 again in Berlin. In Göttingen, where he next canon law and constitutional law and history taught, he had great success with the students; he had to rent a tavern room to hold his lectures in - the 'Pandekt barn'. His nickname among the students ( Rittmeister Markulf ) refers to the early medieval formula collection of Markulf .

Between 1813 and 1814 Eichhorn was a volunteer in the coalition wars . He joined the 4th Kurmärk Landwehr - Cuirassier regiment and became a captain and squadron chief . Eichhorn took part in the Battle of Großbeeren , the Battle of Dennewitz and the Battle of Nations near Leipzig . From 1815 he published the historical jurisprudence journal . In 1831 Eichhorn became a secret legation councilor in the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and later senior tribunal councilor. In 1838 he became a Prussian State Councilor . In 1843 and 1844 he was a member of the higher censorship court.

In 1842 Eichhorn was awarded the order Pour le Mérite for science and the arts . In addition, he received the Prussian Red Eagle Order in 1847 . and in 1853 the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art . Since 1832 he was a member of the Prussian and since 1839 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online on the website of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History .
  2. ↑ Hans Körner : The Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and its members . In: Journal for Bavarian State History , Vol. 47 (1984), pp. 299–398. Online at: http://periodika.digitale-sammlungen.de/zblg/kapitel/zblg47_kap28 .
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Karl Friedrich Eichhorn. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 18, 2015 .
  4. ^ Member entry by Karl Friedrich Eichhorn at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Eichhorn, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1854
Place of death Cologne