Gustav Hugo
Deceased Person
1764 – 1844
Who was Gustav Hugo?
Gustav von Hugo was a German jurist.
He was born at Lörrach in Baden. From the gymnasium at Karlsruhe he passed in 1782 to the University of Göttingen, where he studied law for three years. Having received the appointment of tutor to the prince of Anhalt-Dessau, he took his doctor's degree at the University of Halle in 1788. Recalled in the same year to Göttingen as extraordinary professor of law, he became a full professor in 1792. In the preface to his Beiträge zur civilistischen Bucherkenntniss der letzten vierzig Jahre he gives a sketch of the condition of the civil law teaching at Göttingen at that time.
The Roman and German elements of the existing law were, without criticism or differentiation, welded into an ostensible whole for practical needs, with the result that it was difficult to say whether historical truth or practical ends were most prejudiced. As it was passed from person to person, new errors crept in, and even the best of teachers could not 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 jurisprudence which was continued and further developed by Savigny. His magna opera are the Lehrbuch eines civilistischen Cursus, in which his method is thoroughly worked out, and the Zivilistisches Magazin.
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- Born
- Nov 23, 1764
Lörrach - Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- University of Göttingen
- Lived in
- Lörrach
- Died
- Sep 15, 1844
Göttingen
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on July 23, 2013
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