Beschreibung:

Friedrich Carl von Savigny
Collection of autograph working manuscripts and letters
comprising:
i) Autograph draft manuscript entitled "Über die handschriftliche Grundlage des Ulpian", containing extensive deletions, corrections and revisions, 16 pages, folio, plus 4 separate pages of footnotes, some later manuscript annotations, no place or date [c.1838?], rusty paper clip stains
ii) Autograph draft manuscript entitled "Über die Gesta Senatus von J. 438", with a number of autograph deletions and corrections, 12 pages, folio, plus 1 smaller folio page of footnotes, no place or date [c.1838?], rust paper clip
iii) Autograph manuscript entitled "Bemerkungen zu Heimbachs Recension meiner Abhandlung", 10 pages, folio, some later pencil annotations, later loose paper wrappers inscribed by Elisabeth Rudorff, no place or date, rusty paper clip, browning
[together with:] three autograph letters signed ("Savigny"; "S"): two to Heinrich Lichtenstein, referring to a lecture of his at the Geographical Society and other matters, 27 November [no year] and 17 January [no year], 2 pages, 8vo; and one, unaddressed, possibly to C.A. Klenze, concerning an article on Ulpian, and listing a number of points for consideration, 2 pages, 4to, 21 June [no year]; a printed copy of Adolph Rudorff's memorial speech for Savigny: Gedächtnissrede auf Friedrich Carl von Savigny von Adolf Friedrich Rudorff, Berlin: Druckerei der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1862, 24 pages, 4to, publisher's printed wrappers, vertical and horizontal folds; with a printed and manuscript invoice for the printing of 38 copies of the speech, dated 30 July 1862; and three pages of manuscript notes on the collection by Elisabeth Rudorff, dated April 1958
A remarkable collection of manuscripts and letters by the great German jurist and historian Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779-1861).
Formerly in the collection of the Berlin pianist and teacher Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916). No doubt these manuscripts go back to Rudorff's father, Adolph (1803-1873), a professor of jurisprudence at the Berlin University and a prolific legal scholar and historian, who had studied under Savigny at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin from 1825 onwards. Savigny's appointment as Justice Minister in 1842, a consequence of which meant the cessation of his university teaching activities, was a great blow to Rudorff. On 3 July 1862, the latter delivered the memorial speech for Savigny at the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin (a printed copy of which is included here).
LITERATURE:i) and ii) cf. Vermischte Schriften von Friedrich Carl von Savigny...Dritter Band (Berlin, 1850), pp.57ff. and 255ff. [first published in the Zeitschrift für geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft, vol.9/2 (1838), nos.6 and 8, pp.157ff. and 213ff.]