Hermogenian

Hermogenian (Latin Aurelius (?) Hermogenianus ) was a Roman jurist. He lived in the time of Diocletian around the turn of the 3rd to 4th century and probably came from the eastern part of the empire.

Hermogenian wrote the Codex Hermogenianus and the iuris epitomae ( iuris civilis ) in six books. The Codex - a collection of the imperial decrees of the years 293 and 294, which Hermogenian can only have created in the office of first dragonfly secretary under Diocletian ( magister libellorum ) - was taken into account in the Lex Romana Visigothorum and was thus included in the Codex Iustinianus . Numerous fragments of his epitomes are contained in Justinian I's digests . His collection of legal clauses in the epitoms are based on classical legal writings and imperial constitutions, whereby Papinian's texts in particular have found their way unabridged in accordance with his time . Sedulius called Hermogenian in the 5th century an extremely learned actor of the law ( doctissimus iurislator ) who published three editions of his works - probably the Epitomen.

Hermogenian can possibly be identified with Aurelius Hermogenianus, proconsul of Asia during the Tetrarchy and praefectus urbi under Maxentius . It is probable and inscribed that he served as Praetorian prefect under Maximian in the tetrarchic era, between the years 296 and 304, and at that time still belonged to the ordo equester as vir eminentissimus . According to the martyrs of Sabinus of Assisi , it is said that Maximian expressed himself in an official letter that he had appealed to the legal advice of Hermogenian in his order that Christians had to sacrifice to the gods under threat of death.

literature

Detlef Liebs : Hermogenianus. In: Reinhart Herzog (ed.): Restoration and renewal. The Latin literature from 284 to 374 AD (= Handbook of the Latin Literature of Antiquity . Volume 5). CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-31863-0 , pp. 62-64.
Detlef Liebs: Court lawyers from the Roman emperors to Justinian. Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Munich 2010, CH Beck, ISBN 978-3-7696-1654-5 , Hermogenian.
Detlef Liebs: Hermogenians iuris epitomae. On the status of Roman jurisprudence in the age of Diocletian (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Philological-Historical Class, Third Volume, No. 57). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1964 (dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1962).

Web links

Literature by and about Hermogenian in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

↑ Victoria Panagl (ed.): Sedulii Opera omnia (= Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum . Volume 10). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7001-3681-1 , p. 172, lines 10-11.
↑ Benet Salway: Equestrian prefects and the award of senatorial honors from the SEVERANS to Constantine. In: Anne Kolb (Ed.): Dominance structures and rule practice. Concepts, principles and strategies of administration in the Roman Empire. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004149-8 , p. 130.
↑ AE 1987, 456 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hermogenian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman jurist
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century
DATE OF DEATH	4th century

[1] Victoria Panagl (ed.): Sedulii Opera omnia (= Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum . Volume 10). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7001-3681-1 , p. 172, lines 10-11.

[2] Benet Salway: Equestrian prefects and the award of senatorial honors from the SEVERANS to Constantine. In: Anne Kolb (Ed.): Dominance structures and rule practice. Concepts, principles and strategies of administration in the Roman Empire. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004149-8 , p. 130.

[3] AE 1987, 456 .