"German and European Jurists from Nine Centuries" presents the lives and works of the most significant German and European jurists from the Middle Ages and modern times. The image of these legal personalities reflects the development of law through legal documentation, legislation, and constitutional development, as well as legal science in legal dogmatics, legal history, and legal theory. The main part includes over 100 biographies, while the appendix contains an additional 244 short biographies. The book unfolds the biographical history of German and European legal science before the reader. Thus, it serves both as a reference work and as a study guide for preparing for legal history examinations.