Savigny

Savigny, FRIEDRICH CARL VON, born at Frankfort-on-Maine in 1779, was educated for the law at Marburg and Gottingen. In 1803 he brought out his Teatise on the Right of Possession After a brief sojourn as professor at Landshut he was called in 1810 to the chair of Roman Law in the newly~established university of Berlin, and was also employed practically in the administration of justice, in 1842 attaining the position of Grosskanzler. Among his great works are A History of Roman Law in the Middle Ages, The Modern System of Roman Law, A Treatise on Obligations, and several volumes of miscellaneous essays. He died at Berlin in 1861.