HOMEYER, KARL GUSTAV German jurist, born on Aug. 13, 1795 at Wolgast in Pomerania. He became professor of law (1827) at Berlin, and in 1854 a member of the council and of the upper house of the Prussian diet. He died on Oct. 20, 1874. His principal works are his edition of the Sachsen spiegel (in 3 vols., 1827, 3rd ed., 1861, containing also some other important sources of Saxon or Low German law), which is still unsurpassed in accuracy and sagacity of research ; Die Haus- and Ho f marken (187o) ; and many papers contributed to the Transac tions of the Berlin Academy : fiber die Heimat (185 2) ; Genealogic der Handsc/tri f ten des Sachsenspiegels ; Die Stadtbucher des Mittelalters (186o) ; Der Dreissigste (1864), etc.