Benedikt Carpzov the elder

Human (1565-1624)
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IntroHuman (1565-1624)
PlacesGermany
wasJurist Educator
Work fieldAcademia Law
Gender
Male
Birth22 October 1565, Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg, Germany
Death26 November 1624Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (aged 59 years)
Family
Children:Christian Carpzov
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Benedikt Carpzov (Brandenburg, 22 October 1565 – 1624) was a German legal scholar. After studying at Frankfort and Wittenberg, and visiting other German universities, he was made doctor of law at Wittenberg in 1590. He was admitted to the faculty of law in 1592, appointed professor of institutions in 1599, and promoted to the chair Digesti infortiati et novi in 1601. In 1602 he was summoned by Sophia, widow of the elector Christian I. of Saxony, to her court at Colditz, as chancellor, and was at the same time appointed councillor of the court of appeal at Dresden. After the death of the electress in 1623 he returned to Wittenberg, and died there on 26 November 1624, leaving five sons. He published a collection of writings entitled Disputationes juridicae. Benedikt Carpzov (1595-1666), second of the name, was the second son of the preceding, and like him was a great lawyer.

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