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Plato (left) and Aristotle, detail from School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, 1508-11; in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Vatican. Plato points to the heavens and the realm of Forms, Aristotle to the earth and the realm of things.
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Saint Lucia Day. Young girl wears Lucia crown (tinsel halo) with candles. Holds Saint Lucia Day currant laced saffron buns (lussekatter or Lucia's cats). Observed December 13 honor virgin martyr Santa Lucia (St. Lucy). Luciadagen, Christmas, Sweden
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Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.
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Born March 22, 1798 • Berlin • Germany
Died May 5, 1839 (aged 41) • Berlin • Germany
Founder Society for Jewish Culture and Science
Notable Works “Das Erbrecht in weltgeschichtlicher Entwicklung”
Subjects Of Study German law • Roman law • inheritance
Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
German jurist
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von
Friedrich Karl von Savigny
German jurist and historian
Georg Friedrich Puchta
German jurist
Sir Henry Maine.
Sir Henry Maine
British jurist, historian, and anthropologist
Gaius
Gaius
Roman jurist
Marcus Antistius Labeo
Roman jurist
Vacarius
Roman law scholar
Alberico Gentili
Italian jurist
Quintus Mucius Scaevola
Roman law scholar [died 82 BCE]
Papinian
Papinian
Roman jurist
Irnerius
Italian legal scholar
Servius Sulpicius Rufus
Roman jurist
Eugen Huber
Swiss jurist
Quintus Mucius Scaevola
Roman jurist [died 88 BCE]
Martinus Gosia
Italian jurist
Jacques Cujas
French jurist and scholar
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
Mendelssohn, Moses
Moses Mendelssohn
German-Jewish philosopher and scholar
Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Feuerbach
German philosopher
David Friedrich Strauss
German philosopher