Claudius Cantiuncula

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Claudius (Claude Chansonet, Chansonnette) Cantiuncula (* between 1490 and 1499 in Metz ; † beginning of October 1549 in Ensisheim ) was a legal scholar. He is considered an important critic of medieval legal authorities and played an important role in the academic revision of city rights and the reform of contemporary European legal studies.

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Claudius Cantiuncula was the son of an apostolic notary and episcopal secretary who worked in Metz. He received training in Leuven and probably Leipzig and went to Basel in 1517 . After receiving his doctorate in 1519, the Basel University appointed him full professor and rector two years later .

Cantiuncula was considered a representative of humanistic jurisprudence and followed the views of Andrea Alciatos and Ulrich Zasius . He maintained personal contacts with Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim , Erasmus von Rotterdam , Bonifacius Amerbach and Johannes Ludwig Brassicanus , with whom he also corresponded in writing. His early works on the reform of the legal method show influences from Melanchthon .

In addition to his work at the university, Cantiuncula was a council syndicate in Basel until 1524. As an opponent of the Reformation, he then went to Metz. He then worked for the emperor until 1531 and visited Vic in 1525 and Spain in 1528/29 on his behalf . In 1532 he went to the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer as a referens extraordinarius . From 1531 to 1541 he had a position as titular professor in Vienna, but during this time he always stayed on legation trips to Tyrol, Saxony, Prussia, Bohemia and France. From 1542 he was Chancellor of the Government of the Front Austria in Ensisheim.

In later years Catiuncula wrote well-known reports for the children of Franz von Sickingen and about possible optimizations of the city law of Nuremberg .

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SURNAME Cantiuncula, Claudius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chansonet, Claude; Chansonnette, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH between 1490 and 1499
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH October 1549
Place of death Ensisheim