The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Arndts von Arnesberg, Ludwig

ARNDTS VON ARNESBERG, Ludwig, German jurist: b. Arnsberg, Prussia, 19 Aug. 1803; d. Vienna, 1 March 1878. He was first appointed professor of jurisprudence at Bonn, then held the same position at Breslau, Munich and finally, in 1855, in Vienna, where he remained until his death. In 1848 he was a member of the National Assembly at Frankfurt where he advocated strongly the right of Austria to enter the German Confederacy. In 1871 he was knighted by the Emperor of Austria. His chief works are &lsquo;Lehrbuch der Pandekten&rsquo; (14th ed., 1899); &lsquo;Juristische Encyclopädie und Methodologie&rsquo; (9th ed., 1895); &lsquo;Die Lehre von den Vermächtnissen&rsquo; (3 vols., 1875); &lsquo;Gesammelte zivilistische Schriften&rsquo; (3 vols., 1874); &lsquo;Kritische Uberscha n u der deutschen Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft&rsquo; (in collaboration with Bluntschli and Pözl, 8 vols., 1854).