Ernst Immanuel Bekker

Ernst Immanuel Bekker (1827 to 1916) was a German jurist and professor, born in Berlin, who made his career in Roman private law and the law of the Pandects. He studied law at Heidelberg, gained his Habilitation in Roman law at Halle in 1853, became an ordinary professor at Greifswald in 1857 and returned to Heidelberg in 1874, where he served as Pro-Rector in 1886 and became emeritus in 1908. His principal works include Die Aktionen des römischen Privatrechts (1871 to 1873), Das Recht des Besitzes bei den Römern (1880) and the System des heutigen Pandektenrechts (1886 to 1889). Besides his work on Roman law he wrote philosophical treatises and works on natural science, and late in life he published Das Völkerrecht der Zukunft (1915).