Andreas Aagesen (5 August 1826 – 26 October 1879) was a
Danish
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jurist.
Biography
Aagesen was educated for the law at
Christianshavn
Christianshavn (literally, "ingChristian's Harbour") is a neighbourhood in Copenhagen, Denmark. Part of the Indre By District, it is located on several artificial islands between the islands of Zealand and Amager and separated from the rest of th ...
and
Copenhagen, and interrupted his studies in 1848 to take part in the
First Schleswig War, in which he served as the leader of a reserve battalion.
In 1855 Aagesen became a professor of
jurisprudence at the
University of Copenhagen. In 1870 he was appointed a member of the commission for drawing up a maritime and commercial code, and the navigation law of 1882 is mainly his work. In 1879 he was elected a member of the
Landsting (one of two chambers of the Danish Parliament, the
Rigsdagen
Rigsdagen () was the name of the national legislature of Denmark from 1849 to 1953.
''Rigsdagen'' was Denmark's first parliament, and it was incorporated in the Constitution of 1849. It was a bicameral legislature, consisting of two houses, the ...
); but it is as a teacher at the university that he won his reputation. Aagesen was
Carl Christian Hall
Carl Christian Hall (25 February 1812 – 14 August 1888) was a Denmark, Danish politician, statesman. Hall served as the Council President of Denmark (Prime Minister of Denmark, Prime Minister), first from 1857 to 1859 and again from 1860 to 186 ...
's successor as lecturer on
Roman law at the university, and in this department his research was epoch-making.
Bibliography
Among his numerous juridical works may be mentioned:
*''Bidrag til Læren om Overdragelse af Ejendomsret, Bemærkinger om Rettigheder over Ting'' (Copenhagen, 1866, 1871–1872);
*''Fortegnelse over Retssamlinger, Retslitteratur i Danmark, Norge, Sverige'' (Copenhagen, 1876).
Notes
References
;Attribution
* This source cites:
**
Johan Henrik Deuntzer, ''
Dansk biografisk leksikon'', vol. i. (Copenhagen, 1887)
online;
**''Samlede Skrifter,'' edited by F. C. Bornemann (Copenhagen, 1883)
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1826 births
1879 deaths
Danish jurists
Members of the Landsting (Denmark)
Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen
19th-century Danish military officers
Rectors of the University of Copenhagen