Heck, Philipp

Abstract

Philipp Heck was born in St. Petersburg on 22 July 1858. He spent his early childhood in St. Petersburg and Wiesbaden, where he moved at the age of 12. Young Heck began his studies of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Leipzig but was soon attracted to Jurisprudence, to which he entirely devoted himself for six decades. His itinerary as a Law student, interrupted for a year by military service, followed the cities of Leipzig, Heidelberg, and finally Berlin. According to his own account, it was the late texts of the second Jhering that attracted his attention to Legal Science.