Augusto Gaudenzi

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Augusto Gaudenzi (born May 17, 1858 in Bologna , Italy , † March 25, 1916 in Modena , Italy) was an Italian historian and legal scholar . He has made lasting merits with his editions of medieval legal historical sources.

Statuti del popolo di Bologna del secolo XIII.

Live and act

Gaudenzi was a legal historian and full professor of Italian legal history at the University of Bologna , where he studied and graduated in 1880. His thesis Sui collegi degli artigiani in Roma , which he passed with distinction, was published in the Archivio giuridico XXXII in 1884 .

At first he devoted himself in his studies to the history of the diritto intermedio , d. H. the history of the legal systems in force in Italy from the end of the Roman Empire to the establishment of the nation state, as well as legal positivism . Finally, he turned to research in Germanic law, as a result of which he published two works, La misura delle composizioni nelle antiche leggi germaniche (Bologna 1883) and La legge salica e gli altri diritti germanici (Bologna 1884). In the following years he approached the writings and thoughts of Nino Tamassia by moving away from the Germanic concept of the diritto intermedio that was prevalent in Italian historiography and turning to the idea of ​​the continuity of Roman law .

He traveled through various cities to deepen his knowledge and discovered valuable legal manuscripts from the High Middle Ages, which he edited, such as Un'antica compilazione di diritto romano e visigoto con alcuni framenti delle leggi di Eurico tratta da un manoscritto della biblioteca di Holkham (Bologna 1886), a collection later named Collezione Gaudenziana by scholars . Gaudenzi published six chapters of the Codex Euricianus from a manuscript in the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in 1888 under the title Tre nuovi frammenti dell'editto di Eurico in the Rivista italiana per le scienze giuridiche .

Based on his discoveries and studies, Gaudenti started an ambitious project with which he planned to publish previously unpublished legal texts in three sections ( glossaries , ancient canonical collections and Roman legal testimonies from the High Middle Ages ). Only the first part of this project came about, but in the same years the study of glossaries led him to the city studies of Bologna. After his membership, he became professor emeritus at the Regia Deputazione di storia patria per provincie di Romagna, a number of local state institutes on the history of Italy before unification.

He died in Modena on March 25, 1916.

Honor

In memory of him and Guido Fassò, the Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca in Storia del Diritto, Filosofia e Sociologia del Diritto e Informatica Giuridica (CIRSFID) of the Università di Bologna, founded in 1986, was named after them. In Bologna and Rome streets are named after him.

Works

  • Augusto Gaudenzi: Statuti del popolo di Bologna del secolo XIII: Gli ordinamenti sacrati e sacratissimi colle riformagioni da loro occasionate e dipendenti ed altri provvedimenti affini. (= R. Deputazione di storia patria per la Romagna [Ed.]: Dei monumenti istorici pertinenti alle provincie delle Romagne 1st statute . Volume 6 ). Regia Tipografia Fratelli Merlani, Bologna 1888 (Italian, Latin).

literature

Web links

Commons : Augusto Gaudenzi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Augusto Gaudenzi. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).
  2. ↑ CIRSFID - Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca in Storia del Diritto, Filosofia e Sociologia del Diritto e Informatica Giuridica . Retrieved August 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Gaudenzi, Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna , Italy
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1916
Place of death Modena , Italy