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He was born on the 22nd of August 1818 at Aurich, Germany, where his father practised as a lawyer.
(Jhering, Rudolph von. The Struggle for Law. Translated fr...)
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He was born on the 22nd of August 1818 at Aurich, Germany, where his father practised as a lawyer.
Young Jhering entered the university of Heidelberg in 1836 and, after the fashion of German students, visited successively Gottingen and Berlin. Of all his teachers F. Puchta, the author of Geschichte des Rechts bei dem romischen Volke, alone of all his teachers appears to have gained his admiration and influenced the bent of his mind.
After graduating doctor juris, Jhering established himself in 1844 at Berlin as privatdocent for Roman law, and delivered public lectures on the Geist des romischen Rechts, the theme which may be said to have constituted his life's work. In 1845 he became an ordinary professor at Basel, in 1846 at Rostock, in 1849 at Kiel, and in 1851 at Giessen. Upon all these seats of learning he left his mark; beyond any other of his contemporaries he animated the dry bones of Roman law.
The German juristic world was still under the dominating influence of the Savigny cult, and the older school looked askance at the daring of the young professor, who essayed to adapt the old to new exigencies and to build up a system of natural jurisprudence. This is the keynote of his famous work, Geist des romischen Rechts auf den verschiedenen Stufen seiner Entwickelung (1852 - 1865), which for originality of conception and lucidity of scientific reasoning placed its author in the forefront of modern Roman jurists.
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