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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1779, Savigny trained as a jurist and joined the University of Berlin's faculty, serving as its rector in 1812–1813. Alongside Gustav Hugo, he developed the historical school's core claim: that law emerges from custom and collective experience rather than abstract reason. The framework appealed to those wary of revolutionary codification and gave him influence beyond the academy. Prussia brought him into the State Council, then named him Minister of State for Legal Reform from 1842 to 1848. He died in 1861, having spent decades insisting that a nation's law must be read as biography, not blueprint.