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Introduction
Jhering, the son of a lawyer, was born at Aurich on the shores of the North Sea, in East Frisia, August 22, 1818. He studied law at Heidelberg, and (after the established custom of German students who wander from one university to another) also at Munich, Göttingen, and Berlin. He became a “Privat-Docent” at Berlin in 1844 just as Gustav Hugo, the founder of the Historical School which Jhering was later to overthrow, laid down his labors in death. He became ordinary professor at Basel 1845, Rostock 1846, Kiel 1849, Giessen 1852, Vienna 1868, and at Göttingen 1872, where he remained until his death on September 7, 1892.[1]
If Jhering had not become the most renowned jurist of the second half of the last
- ↑ The following sketches treat the life, character, and works of Jhering more completely than can be here attempted: M. de Jonge, “Rud. von Jhering” (1888); A. Merkel, “Rud. von Jhering” (1893) (translated as an appendix to Jhering, “Law as a Means to an End”) (“Modern Legal Philosophy Series,” Vol. v); Eck, “Zur Feier des gedächtnisses von B. Windscheid und R. v. Jhering” (1893); Munroe Smith, “Four German Jurists,” Pol. Sc. Q., Vols. x, xi, xii. Reference may also be made to volume ii, in the “Continental Legal History Series,” under the title “Great Jurists of the World from Papinian to von Jhering.”
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