ANTON FRIEDRICH JUSTUS, an eminent German jurist, was born at Hameln in Hanover, on the 4th of January 1772. After studying law successively at Gottingen, Königsberg, and Kiel, he took his doctor's degree, and was appointed professor of civil law in the latter university in 1799. From Kiel he removed in 1802 to Jena, and in 1805 to Heidelberg, where he was made justizrat or counsellor of justice. In this university he remained till his death; and in connexion with this place he was successively made a privy councillor in 1826, a knight in 1830, a judge for the grand duchy in 1834, and a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1837. Thibaut died on the 28th of March 1840, with the reputation of being one of the foremost lawyers that Germany had produced. His great work, the System des Pandektenrechts, Jena, 1803, which has gone through numerous editions, and possesses the original merit of being written in the German language, is a book of the highest value to all lawyers. Besides writing some half-dozen other works of more or less merit, chiefly on legal subjects, one of his last books was On the Necessity of a Common Code of Laws for Germany, Heidelberg, 1814, which Savigny pronounced excellent as to the idea the work aimed at carrying out, but premature in the supposition that Germany was yet ripe for such a legal reform.