A. M. Schweigaard

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Anton Martin Schweigaard (11 April 1808 - 1 February 1870) was a Norwegian jurist and economic reformer.

Born on 11 April 1808 in Kragerø. He was a professor of jurisprudence and economics in the 1830s and 1840s and an extremely influential publicist for economic liberalism. He is widely credited in helping bring about Norway's change to a capitalist economy. From 1842 to 1869, he was a member of the Storting (Norwegian parliament).

He died on 1 February, 1870 in Christiania.

Schweigaard was radically opposed to the German jurisprudence and legal philosophy that had dominated Europe during the Enlightenment, including natural law. He believed that the stark dichotomies of conceptualism (mathematical logic) were misleading. Schwigaard figures prominently in Sverre Blandhol’s theory of Nordic legal pragmatism (Nordisk rettspragmatisme), along with Anders Sandøe Ørsted and Friedrich Karl von Savigny.

Schweigaard’s writings include: “Reflections on the Present State of Jurisprudence in Germany”, published in ‘Juridisk Tidsskrift ‘ (‘Legal Journal’) in 1834 and 'Om den tyske filosofi' ('On German Philosophy'), published in the French periodical ‘La France Littéraire’’ in 1835.

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