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Also Known As Rudolf von Ihering
Born August 22, 1818 • Germany
Died September 17, 1892 (aged 74) • Göttingen • Germany
Notable Works “Law as a Means to an End”
Subjects Of Study Roman law
Hermann Kantorowicz
German legal scholar
Eugen Ehrlich
Austrian legal scholar
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von
Friedrich Karl von Savigny
German jurist and historian
Eduard Gans
German jurist
Georg Friedrich Puchta
German jurist
Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
German jurist
Theodor Julius Geiger
German sociologist
Josef Kohler
German jurist
Sir Henry Maine.
Sir Henry Maine
British jurist, historian, and anthropologist
Gaius
Gaius
Roman jurist
Marcus Antistius Labeo
Roman jurist
Vacarius
Roman law scholar
Quintus Mucius Scaevola
Roman law scholar [died 82 BCE]
Alberico Gentili
Italian jurist
Papinian
Papinian
Roman jurist
Irnerius
Italian legal scholar
Servius Sulpicius Rufus
Roman jurist
Azzone Dei Porci
Italian jurist
Quintus Mucius Scaevola
Roman jurist [died 88 BCE]