Friedrich Ludwig von Keller

He was educated at Berlin and Göttingen, where he was a pupil of Savigny. In 1825, he returned to Zürich where he was appointed professor of civil law in the university. He was a leader of the Liberal Radical party and in 1831 became head of the Swiss justiciary. In 1843-47 he was professor in the University of Halle. He then moved to Berlin, where he became professor at the university. He became a conservative member of the Prussian House of Representatives, and because of his services to the monarchical party was ennobled.

• Ueber Litiskontestation und Urteil (Zürich 1827)
• Der römische Civilprocess und die Aktionen in summarischer Darstellung zum Gebrauche bei Vorlesungen (Leipzig 1852; 6th ed., 1883)

His Vorlesungen über die Pandekten was edited by Emil Albert Friedberg (1861), and by William Lewis (1867).

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Keller, Friedrich Ludwig von" . Encyclopedia Americana.
• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Keller, Friedrich Ludwig von" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
• Gabor Hamza, "Anmerkungen zu römischrechtlichen Einflüssen in der Geschichte der schweizerischen Privatrechtswissenschaft und Privatrechtskodifikation", Orbis Iuris Romani 8 (2003) pp. 9-20.
• Gabor Hamza, "Entstehung und Entwicklung der modernen Privatrechtsordnungen und die römischrechtliche Tradition", Budapest 2009, pp. 240-244.