Karl Gustav Homeyer (13 August 1795 – 20 October 1874) was a German jurist who worked at the University of Berlin.

After four years, he joined the household of his uncle Friedrich Rühs, a noted historian who had just accepted a professorship at the newly founded University of Berlin.

At Berlin, he was introduced to the principles of the so-called historical school of the science of law by Savigny and Eichhorn, who were his principal teachers.

[citation needed] In 1821, he settled as a Privatdozent at the university of Berlin, where he became ordinary professor of law in 1827.

[1] In 1850 Homeyer was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, in the Transactions of which he published various papers exhibiting profound learning: