Background
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn the son of Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, born at Jena on the 20th of November 1781.
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn the son of Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, born at Jena on the 20th of November 1781.
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn entered the university of Gottingen in 1797.
In 1805 Karl Friedrich Eichhorn obtained the professorship of law at Frankfort-on-Oder, holding it till 1811, when he accepted the same chair at Berlin.
In 1817 Karl Friedrich Eichhorn was offered the chair of law at Gottingen, and, preferring it to the Berlin professorship, taught there with great success till ill-health compelled him to resign in 1828. His successorin the Berlin chair having diedin 1832, he again entered on its duties, but resigned two years afterwards.
In 1832 Karl Friedrich Eichhorn also received an appointment in the ministry of foreign affairs, which, with his labours on many state committees and his legal researches and writings, occupied him till his death at Cologne on the 4th of July 1854.
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn's chief work is Deutsche Staats- und Rechtsgeschichte. In company with Savigny and Goschen he founded the Zeitschrift fur geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft.
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn was the author besides of Einleitung in das deutsche Privatrecht mit Einschluss des Lehnrechts and the Grundsatze des Kirchenrechts der Katholischen und der Evangelischen Religionsparteiin Deutschland.