历史法学的产生和衰落对德国19世纪法律和法学发展产生了重要影响。其衰落是由该学派的思维方法决定的。它处于自然法学与实证主义法学之间的过渡阶段。在实证主义占支配地位的时代,“民族精神”概念的形而上学思维不能适应时代的要求,其中包含的实证主义因素为后继的法学所吸收,催生了法律史学、概念法学和法律社会学。萨维尼引入“民族精神”反对理性主义自然法的主张,有着政治策略的考虑。当其现实的政治目的达成之后,德国历史法学派便完成了其历史使命。 The emergence and decline of the history of jurisprudence have an important impact on the development of law and law in Germany in the 19th century. Its decline is determined by the school of thought. It is in the transitional stage between natural law and positivist jurisprudence. In the age where positivism dominates, the metaphysical thinking of the concept of “national spirit” can not meet the requirements of the times. The positivist factors it contains are absorbed by subsequent jurisprudence and have given birth to legal history, conceptual jurisprudence and legal sociology. Savigny introduced “national spirit ” against the rationalism of natural law advocates, with political strategy considerations. After its actual political purpose has been reached, the German historical law school has completed its historic mission.