Andreas Aagesen

Andreas Aagesen (1826 to 1879) was a Danish jurist and professor of jurisprudence at the University of Copenhagen. Educated for the law at Christianshavn and Copenhagen, he interrupted his studies in 1848 to take part in the First Schleswig War as leader of a reserve battalion. He became professor of jurisprudence in 1855 and succeeded Carl Christian Hall as lecturer on Roman law, a field in which his research was epoch-making. In 1870 he was appointed to the commission drawing up a maritime and commercial code, and the navigation law of 1882 is mainly his work. In 1879 he was elected to the Landsting, one of the two chambers of the Danish Parliament. His juridical works include Bidrag til Læren om Overdragelse af Ejendomsret and a list of legal literature in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.