Peter Franz Ignaz Deiters

Peter Franz Ignaz Deiters (1804 to 1861) was a German lawyer and legal scholar, born in Münster, who sat in the 1848 Frankfurt Parliament. He studied in Berlin and Bonn, took his doctorate and his habilitation at Bonn in 1825, became associate professor of German law there in 1830 and full professor in 1836. He was rector of the University of Bonn in 1845 to 1846 and again in 1856 to 1857, and for a long time chaired the Bonn city council, which elected him to the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848. His publications include his 1825 inaugural dissertation on kinship under Roman and German law and a 1831 study of marital community of property under the provincial law of Münster.