Home›Civil Law Scholars and Codifiers›Nationality or Jurisdiction›GermanBrowse ByGermanThis dimension groups jurists by nationality or the jurisdiction whose law they practiced. Wikipedia defines nationality as "the legal status of belonging to a particular nation." Browsing this way collects every jurist from a single country or jurisdiction.FactsGermanSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonDefining CharacteristicWell-attestedCivil law is a legal system rooted in the Roman Empire and comprehensively codified and disseminated starting in the 19th century, most notably with France's Napoleonic Code. 1GermanFilter Results27 entriesRoleAll-American lawyer (1)Jurist (6)Jurist and Church historian as well as a theologian (1)Jurist and law historian (1)Jurist and legal historian (1)Jurist and philosopher of law (1)Jurist and politician (1)Jurist of Jewish descent (1)Jurist, judge and academic (1)Jurist, professor, and politician (1)Lawyer, notary and art collector (1)Legal scholar and historian (1)Legal scholar and liberal parliamentarian (1)Medieval German administrator (1)Professor of Jurisprudence (1)Saxon nobleman, jurist and prelate of the Holy Roman Empire (1)Legal SystemAllGerman Legal System (26)Field of LawAllAncient and Customary Law (2)Canon Law (3)Civil / Private Law (8)Commercial and Business Law (1)Common Law (1)Comparative Law (1)Constitutional Law (4)Criminal Law (1)Family Law (2)Legal Philosophy and Jurisprudence (6)GenderAllFemale (3)Male (24)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 27Alois von BrinzGermanAndreas von TuhrGermanAnita AugspurgGermanBernhard WindscheidGermanBertram of MetzGermanBirke HäckerGermanCarl Friedrich von GerberGermanEike of RepgowGermanEmil SeckelGermanErnst ZitelmannGermanFriedrich Carl von SavignyGermanGustav HugoGermanHeinrich DernburgGermanKarl BindingGermanKarl Friedrich EichhornGermanKarl LarenzGermanLevin GoldschmidtGermanLudwig Arndts von ArnesbergGermanMarie MunkGermanMax KaserGermanOtto BahrGermanOtto von GierkeGermanReinhard ZimmermannGermanRudolf von JheringGermanRudolph SohmGermanSiegfried GuggenheimGermanWilhelm Eduard WildaGermanSources1. Civil law (legal system) (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaIntroductionQuote, IntroductionCivil law is a legal system rooted in the Roman Empire and was comprehensively codified and disseminated starting in the 19th century, most notably with France's Napoleonic Code (1804) and Germany's Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (1900).View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.