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BENEDIKT CARPZOV (1595-1666)

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CARPZOV (1595-1666) , second of the name, was the second son of the preceding, and like him was a See also:great lawyer. He was See also:born at See also:Wittenberg on the 27th of May 1595, was at first a See also:professor at See also:Leipzig, obtained an See also:honourable See also:post at See also:Dresden in 1639, became See also:ordinary of the See also:faculty of jurists at Leipzig in 1645, and was named privy councillor at Dresden in 1653. Among his See also:works which had a very extensive See also:influence on the See also:administration of See also:justice, even beyond the limits of See also:Saxony, are Definitiones forenses (1638), Practica nova Imperialis Saxonica rerum criminalium (1635), See also:Opus decisionum illustrium Saxoniae (1646), Processus See also:juris Saxonici (1657), and others. He did much, both by his writings and by his See also:official See also:work, to systematize the See also:body of See also:German See also:jurisprudence which had resulted from the intersection of the See also:common See also:law of Saxony with the See also:Roman and See also:Canon See also:laws. His last years were spent at Leipzig, and his See also:time was entirely devoted to sacred studies. He read the See also:Bible through fifty-three times, studying also the comments of See also:Osiander and See also:Cramer, and making voluminous notes. These have been allowed to remain in See also:manuscript. He died at Leipzig on the 30th of See also:August 1666.

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