Gregor Haloander

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Gregor Haloander (* 1501 in Zwickau as Gregor Meltzer , † September 7, 1531 in or near Venice , Italy ) was a German lawyer at the beginning of the 16th century .

Haloander studied at the University of Leipzig from 1521 , devoted himself to studies in Zeitz during the years of the Peasant Wars of 1524/25 and went to Italy at the end of 1525, where he studied the writings on Justinian's Corpus Juris .

In 1527 he returned to Germany and oversaw the printing of the digest text (littera Haloandrina) which he had prepared and which appeared in three volumes in Nuremberg in 1529 under the title "Digestorum seu Pandectarum libri quinquaginta". Haloander moved to Venice, Ferrara and Bologna in 1531 with the consent of the council of the city of Nuremberg, which he financially supported and with the consent of the council of the city of Zwickau, to which he was accountable, and died in Venice on Sept. 7, 1531 due to medical malpractice.

Haloander's merit is the dissemination of Roman legal texts in Germany. Haloander made a name for himself in particular in the source criticism by emphasizing the meaning of the original text of the Pandects, the Codex Florentinus (so-called " Littera Florentina "), which he himself only knew from unreliable copies.

Haloander's review of Justinian's “ institutions ”, also published in Nuremberg in 1529 , was received in German territory after his death. Haloander's edition of 1531 only partially edited the Justinian novellas . This work was ultimately reserved for Heinrich Scrimger (1506–1572).

Haloander's source editions, however, also meant that the consolidation of the textual basis of the entire Corpus Juris Civilis he was striving for was temporarily not achieved. This only happened through the editions of Dionysius Gothofredus that had been published since 1583 .

Works

Corpus Iuris civilis , 1540
  • Digestorum seu Pandectarum libri quinquaginta ... , editio Norembergae per Gregorium Haloandrum, Nuremberg 1529.
  • Institutionum seu Elementorum D. Justiniani ... libri quattuor , Nuremberg 1529.
  • Codicis Dn. Iustiniani ... ex repetita praelectione libri XII à Gregorio Haloandro ... purgati recognitique , Nuremberg 1530.
  • Novellarum constitutionum Dn. Iustiniani principis, quae exstant, et ut exstant, volumen, Gregorio Haloandro interprete , Nuremberg 1531.

literature

  • Roderich von Stintzing :  Haloander, Gregor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 449-451.
  • Hans Erich Troje: On the significance of Haloander's Digest Edition of 1529. On the significance of Haloander's Digest Edition of 1529 . in: Editio Haloandrina Digestorum (Littera Norica) . Reprint Frankfurt am Main: Vico Verlag 2005, pp. 5–17.
  • Hans Erich Troje: Gregor Haloander . In: Rafael Domingo (ed.): Juristas universales, Vol II: Juristas modernos. Siglos XVI al XVIII: de Zasio a Savigny . Madrid / Barcelona 2004, pp. 177–180.
  • Hans Erich Troje: Graeca leguntur. The appropriation of Byzantine law and the emergence of a humanistic corpus iuris civilis in the jurisprudence of the 16th century . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1971, (= research on the modern history of private law, Volume 18)

Remarks

  1. ^ Dictionary of National Biography
personal data
SURNAME Haloander, Gregor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meltzer, Gregor (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1501
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1531
Place of death Venice , Italy