萨维尼和他的三部巨作

On Savigny and His Three Masterpieces

德国历史法学派的兴起与一个人的出现有关,这就是弗里德里希·卡尔·冯·萨维尼。他先后出版三部巨作,即1803年出版的《占有权》,1815-1831年推出的6卷本《中世纪罗马法史》和1840-1849年出版的8卷本《当代罗马法体系》。《占有权》被誉为"德意志学说汇纂学中的经典教义学专题论著之典范",《中世纪罗马法史》真正第一次开创了"法律史的现代学科",《当代罗马法体系》乃一部划时代的民法著作。正是因为这些著作的出版,萨维尼跻身于德国"经典作家"之列,被蒂堡称为"我们的第一流民法学家"。

The prosperity of German Historische Rechtsschule is related to the appearance of the person named Friedrich Carl von Savigny. He had published three masterpieces, namely the Right of Possession published in 1803, six volumes of Medieval Roman Law History published between 1815 and 1831, and eight volumes of Contemporary Roman Law System published between 1840 and 1849. Right of Possession is honoured as the 'model of classic dogmatic works in German Pandektistik'; Medieval Roman Law History initiatively brings about the modern discipline of legal history for the first time; and Contemporary Roman Law System is regarded as an epoch-making masterpiece on civil law. It is exactly because of the publication of these works that Savigny ranked among German classic writers and was called by Thibaut as 'our first-rate civil jurists'.