KARL

FRIEDRICH

See also:

• EICHHORN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1752-1827)
• KARL FRIEDRICH EICHHORN (1781-1854)

EICHHORN (1781-1854)  , German jurist, son of the preceding, was born at Jena on the 20th of November 1781 . He entered the university of Gottingen in 1797 . In 18o5 he obtained the professorship of law at Frankfort-on-Oder, holding it till 1811, when he accepted the same chair at Berlin . On the call to arms in 1813 he became a captain of horse, and received at the end of the war the decoration of the Iron Cross . In 1817 he was offered the chair of law at Gottingen, and, preferring it to the Berlin professorship, taught there with great success till ill-health compelled him to resign in 1828 . His successor in the Berlin chair having died in 1832, he again entered on its duties, but resigned two years afterwards . In 1832 he also received an appointment in the ministry of foreign affairs, which, with his labours on many state committees and his legal re-searches and writings, occupied him till his death at Cologne on the 4th of July 1854 . Eichhorn is regarded as one of the principal authorities on German constitutional law . His chief work is Deutsche Staats- and Rechtsgeschichte (Gottingen, 18o8-1823, 5th ed . 1843-1844) . In company with Savigny and J . F .

L .

Goschen he founded the Zeitschrift fur geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft . He was the author besides of Einleitung in das deutsche Privatrecht mit Einschluss des Lehnrechts (Gott., 1823) and the Grunds¢tze des Kirchenrechts der Katholischen and der Evangelischen Religionspartei in Deutschland, 2 Bde . (ib., 1831-1833) . See Schulte, Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, sein Leben and Wirken (1884) .