Jacob Grimm

Jacob Grimm

male, deceased (1863)
mythographer, writer, fairy tales, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Hanau, Hesse-Kassel…jurist
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Hanau, January 4, 1785 - September 20, 1863 in Berlin), German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in...
Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani

Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani

male, deceased (1448)
Hadith scholar, Sunni Muslim scholar of Islam, Muslim scholar of Islam, islam, sunni, jurist
Abu’l-Fadl Ahmad ibn Hajar, better known as Ibn Hajar Asqalani (February 18, 1372- d. February 2, 1449 852 AH), was a medieval Egyptian Sunni sc...
Friedrich Carl von Savigny

Friedrich Carl von Savigny

male, deceased (1861)
Humboldt University of Berlin faculty, Frankfurt am Main, lorraine, halle, jena, University of Leipzig…jurist
Friedrich Carl von Savigny (February 21, 1779 in Frankfurt am Main - 25 October, 1861 in Berlin) was one of the most respected and influential...

John Davis

male, deceased (1847)
United States Comptroller of the Currency, embargo, United States District Court judge, new england, jurist, United States Attorney
John Davis, American jurist (b. January 25, 1761, Plymouth, Massachusetts - d. January 14 1847, Boston, Massachusetts), first received a private...

Gaius

male
ancient roman, Papinian, Julius Paulus, Law of Citations, Modestinus, Twelve Tables…jurist
Gaius (floruit AD 130–180) was a celebrated Roman jurist. Scholars know very little of his personal life. It is impossible to discover even his fu...
Karl Binding

Karl Binding

male, deceased (1920)
physicist, Theory of selection, Spiritus rector, 1829-1891, jurist, eugenicist
Karl Ludwig Lorenz Binding was a German jurist known as a promoter of the theory of retributive justice. His influential book, "Die Freigabe der...
Catharine MacKinnon

Catharine MacKinnon

female, 63 years old
Feminist, Yale Law School Alumni, juris doctor, Yale Law School, University of Michigan Law School, Legal academic…jurist
Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born 7 October 1946) is an American feminist, widely-cited scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist. She was educated at...
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann

male, deceased (1822)
The Tales of Hoffmann, German native of East Prussia, drawing, draftsman, pen name, Horror fiction…jurist
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 - June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of fantasy...
Harlan Fiske Stone

Harlan Fiske Stone

male, deceased (1946)
Episcopalian, Columbia Law School alumni, Columbia Law School, Adelphi University, Phi Beta Kappa member, United States Attorneys General…jurist
Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11 1872 - April 22 1946) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as the dean of Columbia Law School, Attorney...
Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

male, deceased (1543)
Catholic, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, Muslim, Indian, Indian astronomy, Islamic astronomy…jurist
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the...