Hugo

Japanese: フーゴー

1764‐1844
German legal scholar. He studied at the University of Göttingen, where he became a lecturer before becoming a professor in 1792. He became a pioneer of historical jurisprudence as a standard-bearer of the second wave of humanism. While he stood on the Kantian theory of natural law, he rejected the claims of abstraction and generalization seen in rational legal theory since Descartes, because natural law is not directly taken into account in the laws and statutes of specific nations, and argued that individual, historicist observations must be made. This progress can be seen in works such as "Natural Law as a Philosophy of Positive Law," "Course of Civil Law," and "Encyclopedia of New Laws," but his ideas were decisively surpassed in quality by Savigny, who was called the "perfecter of historical jurisprudence" of the next generation.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1764‐1844
ドイツの法学者。ゲッティンゲン大学で学び，講師を経て1792年に教授。第2次人文主義の旗手として〈歴史法学の先駆者〉となった。カント的自然法論の立場に立ちつつも，特定の民族の法規や制定法では自然法は直接的には顧慮されていないということから，デカルト以来の理性法論に見られる抽象化･一般化の主張を排し，個別的歴史主義的観察をなさねばならぬと主張した。《実定法の哲学としての自然法論》《民法教程》《新法律エンツィクロペディー》といった著作にそうした歩みが見られるが，しかし彼の構想は次の世代の〈歴史法学の完成者〉と呼ばれたサビニーによって質的には決定的に凌駕されてしまった。

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