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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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EDUARD

GANS (1797-1839)  , German jurist, was born at Berlin on the 22nd of March 1797, of prosperous Jewish parents . He studied law first at Berlin, then at
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Gottingen, and finally at
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Heidelberg, where he attended Hegel's lectures, and became thoroughly imbued with the principles of the Hegelian philosophy . In 1820, after taking his doctor's degree, he returned to Berlin as lecturer on law . In 1825 he turned Christian, and the following
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year was appointed extraordinary, and in 1828 ordinary, professor in the Berlin faculty of law . At this period the
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historical school of jurisprudence was coming to the front, and Gans, predisposed owing to his Hegelian tendencies to treat law historically, applied the method to one
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special branch—the right of succession . His
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great
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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 general theory of the slow
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evolution of legal principles is presented . In 1830, and again in 1835, Gans visited Paris, and formed an intimate acquaintance with the leaders of
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literary culture and criticism there . The liberality of his views, especially on
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political matters, drew upon Gans the displeasure of the Prussian government, and his course of lectures on the
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history of the last fifty years (published as Vorlesungen fiber d . Geschichte d. letzten fiinfzig Jahre,
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Leipzig, 1833–1834) was prohibited . He died at Berlin on the 5th of May 1839 . In addition to the
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works above mentioned, there may be noted the
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treatise on the fundamental
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laws of
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property (Uber die Grundlage
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des Besitzes, Berlin, 1829), a portion of a systematic work on the
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Roman
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civil. law (
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System des romischen Civil-Rechts, 1827), and a collection of his
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miscellaneous writings (Vermischte Schriften, 1832) . Gans editedthe Philosophie der Geschichle in Hegel's Werke, and contributed an admirable preface .

See Revue des deux mondes (Dec . 1839) .

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