Talk:Friedrich Carl von Savigny

Bias.
This article is heavily biased towards Savigny, and the impact of his works in terms of discrediting the works of others is exaggerated. That said, it is not a bad starting point. Hullaballoo84 08:53, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

suggestion for improvement
His first widely recognized work "Das Recht des Besitzes" is mentioned early in the article and translated with "The law of property". But "Besitz" does not mean property, it means possession. As in Rome ("nihil habet commune proprietas et possessio"), possession and property are sharply distinguished in german law. I suggest somebody change that.
 * Done. Languagehat (talk) 12:52, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Stedman Jones in biography on Marx (Belknap, 2016) seems to attribute considerable influence on Marx while in Berlin to Savigny including attending lectures. The page does not indicate that under "influenced" nor elsewhere in the article. Mention of views on Roman Law and possessions. --76.16.97.74 (talk) 20:06, 5 November 2017 (UTC) CRB

Codification dispute
A very significant dispute between Savigny and Thibaut was the so-called codification dispute. Savigny resisted a binding codification because he saw the roots of Roman law in the work of the glossators, post-glossators and later mediaeval works of the usus modernus pandectarum spilled. Before a codification could take place in Germany, in his opinion, the roots of Roman law, especially of canon law, would have to be exposed again. Please forgive me for my bad english. mg Stephan Klage (talk) 17:22, 10 January 2021 (UTC)