EICHHORN, CHARLES FREDERICK, son of the preceding, obtained considerable celebrity as an able and learned jurisconsulist. He Tr." AS horn at Jena on the 20th of November 1781 ; and after passing through the usual course of academic and legal training, was named in 1805 Professor of German Law at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder. In 1811 he removed to Berlin, and in 1817 to Gottingen, in each place holding the same chair as at Frankfurt. Ill-health however compelled him in 1828 to resign, and to retire to an estate he possessed near Tubingen. Having somewhat recovered, he was in 1831 again summoned to Berlin, and along with his professorship he received an appointment in the ministry of foreign affairs. At. length in 1833 be resigned his professor ship, and devoted himself entirely to his official duties and to writing. About this time he was made a member of the Prussian council of state, and of the commission of legislation. He died in July 1854.
Charlee Eichhorn was one of the most erudite expounders of the ancient Germanic law, of its origin, ite growth, and its various bearings.
As the associate and fellow-labourer of Savigny, though taking a some what different branch of the subject as the main object of his investi gations, and as holding the chair of German law for so many years, Eichhorn exercised an important influence on the study of law in Prussia. Hie principal writings are—'Deutsche Stoats nod Rechts.
geschichte,' 4 vole. 8vo, Gottingen, 1808-18, which work has passed through eight editions ; Grundsatze des Kirchenrechts der Ketho liechen und Evangelischen Religionspartei in Deutschland,' 2 vole. 8vo, Gottingen, 1831-33 ; and 'Einleitung in das Deutsche Privatrecht mit Einschluss des Lehnrechts.' In conjunction with Savigny and Ooschen he also carried on the 'Zeitschrift far geshichtliche Rechta wireauschaft,' Berlin, 1815-1843.