Die Deutschen und das Recht

Zur politischen Idee der Germanistik 1806-1848

By (author) Christian Lück

Book cover: Die Deutschen und das Recht

Extent: 429 pages

Publisher: Brill | Fink

Subjects: German Studies, Law, Nineteenth-Century Studies

Series: Literatur und Recht

Series volume number: 7

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(July 2022)

ISBN: 9783770559213

6.1 x 9.25 inches

Price: $63.00

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Around 1800, many renowned intellectuals, poets, jurists, historians, philologists were obsessed with the idea that a German nation-state could only be achieved by overcoming the “foreign” Roman law and restoring a “native” law. As late as 1846, Georg Beseler, later a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, considered Roman law a “national misfortune.” He thus continued a thought that had been put forward with the beginning of the “German Movement” in the 18th century. Christian Luck examines the discourse from Justus Moser, who provided important stimuli to Goethe and Herder around 1770, to Savigny’s Historical School of Law, political Romanticism, Fichte, Kleist, Adam Muller, the Brothers Grimm, and the Germanists’ Day in 1846. The studies are intended as a contribution to the founding history of German studies as a historical science of German.

  • By (author) Christian Lück