The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Arndts von Arnesberg, Ludwig
ARNDTS VON ARNESBERG, Ludwig,
German jurist: b. Arnsberg, Prussia, 19 Aug.
1803; d. Vienna, 1 March 1878. He was first
appointed professor of jurisprudence at Bonn,
then held the same position at Breslau,
Munich and finally, in 1855, in Vienna, where he
remained until his death. In 1848 he was a
member of the National Assembly at Frankfurt
where he advocated strongly the right
of Austria to enter the German Confederacy.
In 1871 he was knighted by the Emperor of
Austria. His chief works are ‘Lehrbuch der
Pandekten’ (14th ed., 1899); ‘Juristische
Encyclopädie und Methodologie’ (9th ed., 1895);
‘Die Lehre von den Vermächtnissen’ (3 vols.,
1875); ‘Gesammelte zivilistische Schriften’
(3 vols., 1874); ‘Kritische Uberschanu der
deutschen Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft’
(in collaboration with Bluntschli and
Pözl, 8 vols., 1854).