GANS, EDUARD ( German jurist, was born at Berlin on March 22, 1797, of Jewish parents. He studied law first at Berlin, then at Gottingen, and finally at Heidelberg, where he attended Hegel's lectures, and became thoroughly imbued with the principles of the Hegelian philosophy. In 1826 he was ap pointed professor in the Berlin faculty of law. His great work is Erbrecht in weltgeschichtlicher Entwicklung (1824, 1825, 1829 and 1835). The liberality of his views, especially on political mat ters, drew upon Gans the displeasure of the Prussian Government, and his course of lectures on the history of the last so years (published as V orlesungen fiber d. Geschichte d. letzten fun! zig Jahre, Leipzig, 1833-34) was prohibited. He died at Berlin on May 5,