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HUGO, GUSTAV VON (1764–1844)

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HUGO, GUSTAV VON (1764–1844) , See also:German jurist, was See also:born at See also:Lorrach in See also:Baden, on the 23rd of See also:November 1764. From the gymnasium at Carlsruhe he passed in 1782 to the university of See also:Gottingen, where he studied See also:law for three years. Having received the See also:appointment of See also:tutor to the See also:prince of See also:Anhalt-See also:Dessau, he took his See also:doctor's degree at the university of See also:Halle in 1788. Recalled in this See also:year to Gottingen as extraordinary See also:professor of law, he became See also:ordinary professor in 1792. In the See also:preface to his Beitreige zur zivilistischen Biicherkenntnis der letzten vierzig Jahre (1828–1829) he gives a See also:sketch of the See also:condition of the See also:civil law teaching at Gottingen at that See also:time. The See also:Roman See also:Canon and German elements of the existing law were, without See also:criticism or differentiation, welded into an ostensible whole for See also:practical needs, with the result that it was difficult to say whether See also:historical truth or practical ends were most prejudiced. One See also:man handed on the inert See also:mass to the next in the same condition as he had received it, new errors crept in, and even the best of teachers could not See also:escape from the false method which had become traditional. These were the evils which Hugo set himself to combat, and he became the founder of that historical school of See also:jurisprudence which was. continued and further See also:developed by See also:Savigny. His magna See also:opera are the Lehrbuch eines zivilistischen Kursus (7 vols., 1792–1821), in which his method is thoroughly worked out, and the Zivilistisches Magazin (6 vols., 1790-1837). He died at Gottingen on the 15th of See also:September 1844. For an See also:account of his See also:life see Eyssenhardt, Zur Erinnerung an Gustav Hugo (See also:Berlin, 184+0).

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