Karl Friedrich Eichhorn (20 November 1781 – 4 July 1854) was a German

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. Eichhorn was born in

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as the son of

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (16 October 1752, in Dörrenzimmern – 27 June 1827, in Göttingen) was a German Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment and an early orientalist. He was a member of the Göttingen School of History. Education and ...

. He entered the

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in 1797. In 1805 he obtained the professorship of law at

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, holding it until 1811, when he accepted the same chair at the new Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. On the call to arms in 1813 he became a captain of horse, and received the

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at the end of the war. In 1817 he was offered the chair of

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at Göttingen, and, preferring it to the Berlin professorship, taught there with great success until 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 researches and writings, occupied him until his death at

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. Eichhorn was regarded as one of the principal authorities on German constitutional law. His chief work is ''Deutsche Staats- und Rechtsgeschichte'' (Göttingen, 1808– 1823, 5th ed. 1843–1844). In company with

Friedrich Carl von Savigny Friedrich Carl von Savigny (21 February 1779 – 25 October 1861) was a German jurist and historian. Early life and education Savigny was born at Frankfurt am Main, of a family recorded in the history of Lorraine, deriving its name from the cast ...

and Johann Friedrich Ludwig Göschen he founded the ''Zeitschrift für geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft''. He was the author besides of ''Einleitung in des deutsche Privatrecht mit Einschluss des Lehnrechts'' (Gött., 1823) and the ''Grundsätze des Kirchenrechts der Katholischen und der Evangelischen Religionspartei in Deutschland'', 2 Bde. (ib., 1831– 1833).

Awards and decorations

of 1813 * Pour le Mérite for Arts and Sciences (1842) *

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(Prussia, 1847) * Maximilian Order for Science and Art (Bavaria, 1853)

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* This work in turn cites: ** Karl Friedrich Schulte,
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, sein Leben und Wirken
' (1884) at

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Karl Friedrich von Eichhorn, Prussian Minister of Religious and Educational Affairs, to the Prussian Interior Minister Count von Arnim (June 7, 1844)

''Zeitschrift für geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft''
(1848) at

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