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Grossekettler, Heinz --- "Lorenz von Stein (1815-90)" [1999] ELECD 51; in Backhaus, G. Jürgen (ed), "The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999)

Book Title: The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics

Editor(s): Backhaus, G. Jürgen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781858985169

Section: Chapter 44

Section Title: Lorenz von Stein (1815-90)

Author(s): Grossekettler, Heinz

Number of pages: 11

Extract:

44 Lorenz von Stein (1815-90)
Heinz Grossekettler


A survey of von Stein's life and work
Lorenz von Stein was born on 15 November 1815in Eckernforde, a small town
in the present-day German Land of Schleswig-Holstein. He was the illegitimate
son of von Wasner, an officer in the Danish army, and the wife of a sergeant by
the name of Stein.' His father assumed responsibility for his education, and
sent him to a school founded by the Danish king for his army members' sons.
As a result of his exceptional gift, Lorenz von Stein was introduced to the King
of Denmark who awarded him a scholarship. He won further scholarships and
thus he was subsequently able to register as a law and philosophy student at the
University of Kiel. He also spent some time at the University of Jena, where he
devoted much thought to J.G. Fichte's views on philosophy and economics, as
well as his quest for a rational legal and political system. He then returned to
Gel, where he took his final examination in law in 1839.
While serving a period of articled clerkship in Copenhagen, he worked on
a dissertation about the history of Danish civil procedure (von Stein, 1841)
and in 1840 he was made a doctor of law in Kiel. The King of Denmark
thereupon awarded him a travelling scholarship which enabled him to finance
a stay in Berlin before going on to Paris. In Berlin, he moved in neo- ...