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Grossekettler, Heinz --- "Lorenz von Stein (1815–90)" [2005] ELECD 180; in Backhaus, G. Jürgen (ed), "The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition

Editor(s): Backhaus, G. Jürgen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845420321

Section: Chapter 56

Section Title: Lorenz von Stein (1815–90)

Author(s): Grossekettler, Heinz

Number of pages: 11

Extract:

56 Lorenz von Stein (1815­90)
Heinz Grossekettler


A survey of von Stein's life and work
Lorenz von Stein was born on 15 November 1815 in Eckernförde, 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.1 His father assumed responsibility for his
education, and sent him to a school founded by the Danish king for soldiers'
sons. As a result of his exceptional talent, Lorenz von Stein was introduced to
the King of Denmark who awarded him a scholarship. He won further schol-
arships 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 Kiel, 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 ...