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EDUARD GANS (1797-1839)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 454 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GANS (1797-1839)  , See also:German jurist, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 22nd of See also:March 1797, of prosperous Jewish parents . He studied See also:law first at Berlin, then at See also:Gottingen, and finally at See also:Heidelberg, where he attended See also:Hegel's lectures, and became thoroughly imbued with the principles of the Hegelian See also:philosophy . In 1820, after taking his See also:doctor's degree, he returned to Berlin as lecturer on law . In 1825 he turned See also:Christian, and the following See also:year was appointed extraordinary, and in 1828 See also:ordinary, See also:professor in the Berlin See also:faculty of law . At this See also:period the See also:historical school of See also:jurisprudence was coming to the front, and See also:Gans, predisposed owing to his Hegelian tendencies to treat law historically, applied the method to one See also:special See also:branch—the right of See also:succession . His See also:great See also:work, Erbrecht in weltgeschichtlicher Entwickla '.g (1824, 1825, 1829 and 1835), is of permanent value, not mu.- for its extensive survey of facts, but for the admirable manner in which the See also:general theory of the slow See also:evolution of legal principles is presented . In 1830, and again in 1835, Gans visited See also:Paris, and formed an intimate acquaintance with the leaders of See also:literary culture and See also:criticism there . The liberality of his views, especially on See also:political matters, See also:drew upon Gans the displeasure of the Prussian See also:government, and his course of lectures on the See also:history of the last fifty years (published as Vorlesungen fiber d . Geschichte d. letzten fiinfzig Jahre, See also:Leipzig, 1833–1834) was prohibited . He died at Berlin on the 5th of May 1839 . In addition to the See also:works above mentioned, there may be noted the See also:treatise on the fundamental See also:laws of See also:property (Uber See also:die Grundlage See also:des Besitzes, Berlin, 1829), a portion of a systematic work on the See also:Roman See also:civil. law (See also:System des romischen Civil-Rechts, 1827), and a collection of his See also:miscellaneous writings (Vermischte Schriften, 1832) . Gans editedthe Philosophie der Geschichle in Hegel's Werke, and contributed an admirable See also:preface .

See Revue des deux mondes (Dec . 1839) .

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