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Friedrich Carl von Savigny (21 February 1779 – 25 October 1861) was a German jurist and historian. [1] [2] Early life and education.
Savigny was born in Berlin on 19 September 1814. His father was the jurist Friedrich Carl von Savigny, who was then privy councillor of the court of appeals, member of the Prussian council of State, and professor at the University of Berlin, and his mother was Kunigunde Brentano, sister of the poet Clemens Brentano.
The Romanists, to whom Savigny also belonged, held that the Volksgeist springs from the reception of the Roman law, while the Germanists (Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, Jakob Grimm, Georg Beseler, Otto von Gierke) saw medieval German law as the expression of the German Volksgeist.
Carl von Savigny, a wealthy lawyer, was to be Günderrode's first love. Günderrode sought to marry von Savigny (and thus be able to leave the charitable foundation), but he refused; [3] instead, he eventually married their mutual friend Kunigunde Brentano. [4] [5] After von Savigny married and left Frankfurt and Günderrode's close friend ...
Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861), German jurist Marie Jules César Savigny (1777–1851), French zoologist Rev. W. H. Savigny (1825–1889), Australian headmaster, father of
Savigny thus included legal relations between persons and things, but did not consider the relations between persons and governments to be legal relations. Under Savigny's system, the question of choice of law became a question of which country was the seat of the relevant legal relationship (Sitz des Rechtsverhältnisses). [12] [13]
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Legal science is one of the main components in civil law tradition (after Roman law, canon law, commercial law, and the legacy of the revolutionary period).. Legal science is primarily the creation of German legal scholars of the middle and late nineteenth century, and it evolved naturally out of the ideas of Friedrich Carl von Savigny.