Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1772-1840)

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Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut was among the leading jurists in Germany during the first half of the 19th century. A gifted lecturer, he was one of the defining figures at Heidelberg's faculty of law. He was not part of the Historical School of Jurisprudence surrounding Hugo and von Savigny, but rather chose to maintain an independent position. He remained distant to their anti-codification view and strict orientation towards ancient Roman law, always keeping in mind the needs of legal practice and the ideas of late secular natural law. Von Savigny rejected Thibaut's politically hopeless call for a German civil law codification and simultaneously introduced the public to the program of the Historical School. Even today, Thibaut is widely recognized only as the 'loser' of this debate. Two hundred years after these events, this volume provides the extensive reappraisal of his personality and works that is demanded.

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Christian Baldus (Herausgegeben von) Studium der Rechtswissenschaft in Passau, Pavia und Trier; Referendariat in Koblenz; Promotion und Habilitation in Köln; Professor für Bürgerliches Recht und Römisches Recht in Heidelberg und Direktor am Institut für geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft. Christian Hattenhauer (Herausgegeben von) ist Ordinarius für Bürgerliches Recht und Rechtsgeschichte an der Universität Heidelberg. KlausPeter Schroeder (Herausgegeben von) ist Professor für Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte an der Juristischen Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg und Präsident der Heidelberger Rechtshistorischen Gesellschaft.

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