The German jurist Friedrich Karl von Savigny (1779-1861) advocated the doctrine of historical continuity, according to which historical rather than natural rights and actual historical facts rather than legal theory were the bases for legal systems....

Savigny, Friedrich Karl Von(1779–1861) Friedrich Karl von Savigny, the founder of historical jurisprudence, was born in Frankfurt, Germany, into a family that had moved there from Lorraine. Left an orphan at thirteen, Savigny was brought up by a...

Friedrich Carl von Savigny (February 21, 1779 in Frankfurt am Main - 25 October, 1861 in Berlin) was one of the most respected and influential 19th-century jurists. He was born at Frankfurt, of a family recorded in the history of Lorraine, deriving its...

Carl Friedrich von Weizscker was the last of the German team who researched atomic weapons for the Nazis. When the Americans captured his laboratory at Strasbourg in December 1944, from papers they found it appeared that the Germans had never come close to developing...

In addition to his outstanding achievements in physics and activities in policy, C.-F. von Weizsacker is famous for his talks, given as a member of the Academy Leopoldina. Due to the latter, I could learn quite a lot from his methodological writings. In...