Arnold Vinnius

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Arnold Vinnius

Arnold Vinnius , also Vinnen (born January 4, 1588 in Monster ; † September 1, 1657 ) was one of the most important lawyers of the 17th century in the Netherlands . He is considered a representative of the usus modernus pandectarum .

Life

Vinnius was the son of Michael Vinnius and Margaretha van Eck. After attending the Latin school in 's-Gravenhage , he studied law in Leiden from April 25, 1603 . His teachers included Eberhard Bronchorst and Gerardus Tuningius (1566–1610). The latter was a student of Hugo Donellus . After he had obtained his doctorate in law in 1612, he gave private lessons in Leiden from May 8, 1618 as a qualified lecturer with the title De Verborum Significationibus of Regulis juris . In 1620 he was not considered by the faculty when awarding a professorship because he had previously expressed disapproval of his fellow professors in Leiden.

In the meantime, in 1619, Vinnius had taken on the role of rector at the Latin school in The Hague . He held this office until 1632. It lasted until May 8, 1633, before he became an associate professor at the "Institutes" in Leiden and on February 9, 1636 was finally given a full chair . From 1640 he gave lectures on pandects and on February 8, 1649 he became professor of pandects / digests. From 1654 he gave lectures on the Codex Iustinianus , which he held until his death. In his capacity as a professor at the Leiden University, he also took part in the organizational matters of the same and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1649/50 and 1657 .

Teaching

Vinnius' teaching was permeated by the influences of Hugo Donellus. His work was based on his systematic method of representation, turning away from the way the glossators work in relation to the corpus iuris civilis . Vinnius paid special attention - unlike his compatriot Gerhard Noodt , who stood in the tradition of French humanism and based himself on ancient Roman law - on the interlocking of ancient legal structures and local customary law . In doing so, he corresponded to the characteristics of the usus modernus pandectarum .

Vinnius' best-known work is a commentary on the Institutiones Iustiniani . He worked on these historically and philologically and explained them. He also gave advice on Dutch law at the time. This work, written in Latin like its original basis, was not only printed and distributed in the Netherlands, but throughout Europe. In many points, Vinnius follows, sometimes literally, Hugo Grotius ' work on Roman-Dutch law "Inleidinge tot de Hollandsche rechts-leerdheid". For Spain there was a version of the work that had been purged of the Inquisition , "Vinnius castigatus", in which, above all, the marriage law was adapted to the teaching of the Catholic Church.

Works

  • In quatuor libros institutionum imperialium commentarius academicus et forensis , Herborn 1699 ( digitized version ) - set on the index in two decrees 1721 and 1724 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
  • Ger.Tuningii Commentarius in Libros IV Institutionum Juris Civilis. Suffering 1618
  • Jurisprudentiae contractae S. Partitionum Juris civilis libri IV variis observationibus et Notis perpetuis illustrati. The Hague 1631, Rotterdam 1663,
  • Oratio auspicalis anno 1633 pridie kal. Martii habita, dum Professionem juris in Academia Lugduno-Batava ordiretur typis Justi Livii. 1633
  • Commentarius Academicus et Forensis in Institutiones Juris civilis Justinianeas. The Hague 1644, (was indexed in Rome in 1725)
  • De Pactis, Jurisdictione, Collatioribus et Transactionibue 4. Rotterdam 1644.
  • Notae in Authores de Origine et Progsessu Juris Civilis Romuni cum Observationibus Simonis van Leeuwen. Suffering 1672
  • Selectarum Quaestionum Juris libri II quibus additaë sunt Simonis Vinnii Arnoldi filii orationes duae. Rotterdam 1672

literature

  • M. Ahsmann: Vinnius, Arnold , in: Gerd Kleinheyer, Jan Schröder (ed.): German and European lawyers from nine centuries (= UTB; 578). 4th edition. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8252-0578-9 .
  • Govaert CJJ van den Bergh: The Dutch elegant school. A contribution to the history of humanism and jurisprudence in the Netherlands 1500-1800 . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-465-03170-9 .
  • Robert Feenstra, Cornelius Jan Sirk Waal: Seventeenth-Century Leyden Law Professors and Their Influence on the Development of the Civil Law. A Study of Bronchorst, Vinnius and Voet (= negotiating of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeling Letterkunde. NR 90). North-Holland Publ. Co., Amsterdam 1975, pp. 24-35 and 52-69.
  • Arnoldus Vinnius: Institutional Commentary - Law of Obligations. Text and translation. German translation by Klaus Wille. With an introduction by Reinhard Zimmermann. Verlag CF Müller, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8114-5220-7 .
  • Johannes van Kuyk: VINNIUS (Arnoldus) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 3. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 1312–1313 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1914, reprinted unchanged).
  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1876, Volume 19, p. 234, ( historici.nl ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jan Dirk Harke : Roman law. From the classical period to the modern codifications. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57405-4 ( floor plans of the law ), § 3 no. 13.
  2. ^ Vinnius (Vinnen), Arnold. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 923 (French, digitized ).