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Julius Heinrich Ahrens (14 July 1808 -- 2 August 2 1874 in Salzgitter) in Kniestedt (today part of Salzgitter)was a German legal philosopher and main representative of the legal philosophical direction named after him.

Life and Work
Ahrens, born in Kniestedt (today a part of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony) was the son of the estate manager Karl Heinrich Ahrens and his wife Lucie Christiane Huth. Ahrens spent his school years in his hometown and then began to study at the Georg August University of Göttingen, where he joined the local fraternity in 1828.[1] One of his teachers, the philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause became his great role model. In 1830, Ahrens habilitated under Krause with his habilitation thesis "De confoederatione germanica". Because of the political explosiveness of this work, Ahrens could not hope for employment in the civil service; the Bundestag considered Ahrens an "agitator." Since Ahrens, together with his colleagues, the jurists Johann Ernst Arminius von Rauschenplat and Carl Wilhelm Theodor Schuster, triggered the Göttingen Revolution in January 1831, the warning seemed almost prophetic. Since he was wanted by the authorities, Ahrens fled with Rauschenplat to Brussels and later to Paris. There, starting in 1833, he earned his living by giving lectures and talks on Die Deutsche Philosophie seit Kant. Just one year later, he accepted an appointment as associate professor of philosophy at the University of Brussels.