A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law. Depending on jurisdiction, the term "jurist" can refer to a legal scholar, a judge, or a lawyer.
Gustav Hugo
…Gustav Conrad Hugo (23 November 1764 – 15 September 1844) was a German jurist. Hugo was born at Lörrach in the Margraviate of Baden. From the gymnasium at Karlsruhe, he passed in 1782 to the University of Göttingen, where he…
Detail from the sarcophagus of Roman jurist Valerius Petronianus (315–320)