Karl Eduard Zachariae

Karl Eduard Zachariae (December 24, 1812 – June 3, 1894), was an eminent jurist and the son of Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal.

Works and studies

Zachariae produced an enormous mass of works of great importance for students of Byzantine law. The task to which he devoted his life was, to discover and classify the sources of Byzantine law hidden away in the libraries of the East and West; to re-edit, in the light of modern criticism, those sources which had already been published; to write the history of Byzantine law on the basis of this hitherto undiscovered material; and finally, to apply the results to the scientific elucidation of the Justinian law.

Related Topics:
Byzantine law - Justinian law

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His Jus Graeco-Romanum ("Greek-Roman law"), of which the first part was published in 1856, the last in 1891, is among the best and most complete collections of the sources of Byzantine law and of the Novels from the time of Justin II to 1453. On the general history of the subject he wrote two epoch-making works, the Historiae Graeco-Romani juris delineatio, cum appendice ineditorum (Heidelberg, 1839), and Innere Geschichte des grieschisch-römischen Rechts (I. Personalrecht; II. Erbrecht; III. Die Geschichte des Sachenrechts und Obligations-recht) (Leipzig, 1856), the third edition of which appeared under the title Geschichte des griechisch-römischen Rechts (1892).

Related Topics:
1856 - 1891 - Justin II - 1453 - 1839 - 1892

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In this last work, which covered ground hitherto unexplored, Byzantine is treated as a development of Justinian law, and incidentally many obscure points in the economic and agrarian conditions of the Eastern empire are elucidated.

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For a list of Zachariae's other works, see Allgem. Deutsche Biogr., art. by Wilhelm Fischer.

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