Jacob Friedrich Behrend

Jacob Friedrich Behrend (1833 to 1907) was a German jurist, born in Berlin, the son of the physician Friedrich Jakob Behrend. He studied at the University of Berlin, became a Gerichtsassessor in 1859 and a privatdozent at Berlin in 1864, publishing a critical edition of the Magdeburger Fragen in 1865 and, in 1868, a fourteenth century Stendal judgment book with commentary. He became associate professor of jurisprudence at Berlin in 1870, edited a journal of German legislation, and in 1873 accepted a chair at Greifswald. His edition of the Lex Salica with the capitularies appeared in 1874, and from 1880 he published a Lehrbuch des Handelsrechts, the first comprehensive scientific exposition of German commercial law. In 1888 he was appointed Reichsgerichtsrat at Leipzig, a judge of the highest court in Germany.