It has its origins in the writings of German Romantics like Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and, most notably, Johann Gottfried Herder.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Otto von Bismarck | Friedrich Nietzsche | Carl Sagan | Carl Jung | Friedrich Schiller | Alexander von Humboldt | Carl Orff | Wernher von Braun | Carl Maria von Weber | Herbert von Karajan | Carl Lewis | Carl Zeiss AG | Carl Linnaeus | Carl Sandburg | Friedrich Engels | Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | John von Neumann | Lars von Trier | Ferdinand von Mueller | Carl Levin | Paul von Hindenburg | Carl Zeiss | Carl Michael Bellman | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Heinrich von Kleist | Anne Sofie von Otter |
It was also influenced by the great Napoleonic code, the Spanish laws in effect at that time in Argentina, Roman law (especially through the work of Savigny), canon law, the draft of the Brazilian civil code (Esboço de um Código Civil para Brasil) by Freitas, and the influence of the Chilean civil code (by Andrés Bello).