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AAGESEN, ANDREW (1826-1879)

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AAGESEN, See also:ANDREW (1826-1879) , Danish jurist, was educated for the See also:law at Kristianshavn and See also:Copenhagen, and interrupted his studies in 1848 to take part_ in the first See also:Schleswig See also:war, in which he served as the See also:leader of a reserve See also:battalion. In 1855 he became See also:professor of See also:jurisprudence at the university of Copenhagen. In 187o he was appointed a member of the See also:commission for See also:drawing up a maritime and commercial See also:code, and the See also:navigation law of 1882 is mainly his See also:work. In 1879 he was elected a member of the Landsthing; but it is as a teacher at the university that he won his reputation. Among his numerous juridical See also:works may be mentioned: Bidrag til Laeren om Overdragelse of Ejendomsret, Bemaerkinger om Rettigheder over Ting (Copenhagen, 1866, 1871–1872); Fortegnelse over Retssamlinger, Retslitteratur i Danmark, Norge, Sverige (Copenhagen, 1876). Aagesen was See also:Hall's successor as lecturer on See also:Roman law at the university, and in this See also:department his researches were See also:epoch-making. All his pupils were profoundly impressed by his exhaustive examination of the See also:sources, his energetic demonstration of his subject and his stringent See also:search after truth. His See also:noble, imposing, and yet most . amiable See also:personality won for him, moreover, universal See also:affection and respect. See C. F. Bricka, Dansk. Biog.

Lex. vol. i. (Copenhagen, 1887); Samlade Skrifter, edited by F. C. Bornemann (Copenhagen, 1863). (R. N.

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