Gustav Adolph Ackermann (16 January 1791 – 19 February 1872) was a German lawyer and author of a notable book on European knightly orders. Ackermann was born in Auerbach in

Vogtland Vogtland (; ) is a region spanning the German states of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia and north-western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It overlaps with and is largely contained within Euroregio Egrensis. The name alludes to the former leadershi ...

Electorate of Saxony The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony ( or ), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356 to 1806 initially centred on Wittenberg that came to include areas around the cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. It was a ...

Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. It developed in the Early Middle Ages, and lasted for a millennium ...

. He was ''Königlich Sachsischer Appelationsrat'' oyal Saxon appeal councillorat the courthouse in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

, Saxony and a great connoisseur of the 19th-century and medieval German and European knightly orders. In 1855 his ''Ordensbuch'' rders bookappeared in Annaberg with the subtitle ''Sämtlicher in Europa blühender und erloschener Orden und Ehrenzeichen'' omplete gathering of flourishing and extinct orders and honorific decorations in Europe Despite its title, the book is not a complete description of orders and decorations, but it is a valuable resource for researchers. As a lawyer he also published in his field. In 1849 his ''Rechtssätze aus Erkenntnissen des Königl. Oberappelationsgerichts zu Dresden'' aw sets about findings of royal high appeal court in Dresden a work on the then applicable

jurisprudence Jurisprudence, also known as theory of law or philosophy of law, is the examination in a general perspective of what law is and what it ought to be. It investigates issues such as the definition of law; legal validity; legal norms and values ...

, appeared in Saxony. He died in Dresden on February 19, 1872.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ackermann, Gustav 1791 births 1872 deaths People from Auerbach (Vogtland) Jurists from Saxony 19th-century German lawyers 19th-century German jurists