Otto von guericke biography summary
Otto von guericke biography summary
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Gierke, Otto Von
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The German jurist Otto von Gierke (1841–1921) was born in Stettin, the son of a Prussian official. He was reared in a highly respectable, patriotic, and Prussian atmosphere.
As a student at the University of Berlin, he was influenced by Georg Beseler, a jurist of the Germanist school, who had already sketched and was teaching the idea of a purely German theory of associations (Genossen-schaftstheorie).
After professorships at Breslau (1872–1884) and Heidelberg (1884–1887) Gierke succeeded to Beseler’s chair at Berlin, which he occupied until his death.
At the beginning of Gierke’s career, German legal scholarship was dominated by the Romanist school of Savigny; but Gierke began and remained a staunch Germanist.
The Germanists, like the Romanists, were historically minded; their research, however, did not take them back to the Roman Empire, Justinian’s Code, and the Reception, but followed the path marked out by Jacob