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HUGO, GUSTAV VON (17641844) , German jurist, was born at Lorrach in Baden, on the 23rd of November 1764. From the gymnasium at Carlsruhe he passed in 1782 to the university of Gottingen, where he studied law for three years. Having received the appointment of tutor to the prince of Anhalt-Dessau, he took his doctor
Halle
ordinary professor in 1792. In the preface to his Beitreige zur zivilistischen Biicherkenntnis der letzten vierzig Jahre (18281829) he gives a sketch of the condition of the civil law teaching at Gottingen at that time. The Roman Canon
practical
practical
mass to the next in the same condition as he had received it, 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
For an account of his life
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