Jean Grivel

Jean Grivel , Lord of Perrigny, Fontaine etc. (born March 15, 1560 in Lons-le-Saunier , † October 14, 1624 in Brussels ) was a Burgundian legal scholar.

Life

Jean Grivel came from a noble family of the former Franche-Comté . He studied law and became a doctor of law . Subsequently, he was an advocate for the parliament in Dole and since 1599 councilor of the same parliament. In 1608 he went to Brussels as State Councilor to Archduke Albrecht and his wife Isabella . After Jean Richardot's death in 1609, he took over the management of state affairs in Burgundy . He died in Brussels on October 14, 1624 at the age of 64 and was buried in the Saint-Gery church.

Grivel was best known to legal scholars for his Decisiones celeberrimi Sequanorum senatus Dolani , which he published in Antwerp in 1618 . The second edition (probably obtained by his son Claudius Grivel, Assessor in the Dole Parliament) was published in Geneva in 1631 and a new edition in 1660. The good Latin style and erudition of the author as well as the arrangement of the content and the clarity of the presentation were praised in this work. It is especially useful to get to know the laws and customs of the country.

The fact that a great-grandson of the author organized a new edition proves how valued these decisions were. There was ample material available to him in the author's estate. The text of the earlier editions, which contained 150 decisions, was corrected according to the author's notes and increased by 42 other decisions and three notices. Presumably the newly included decisions were taken from another similar collection, Opus Decisionum Concilii privati , the publication of which Jean Grivel had expressly forbidden his son to publish in his will. This new edition was published in the episcopal printing house of Jean-Baptiste Ogé under the title Decisiones celeberrimi Sequanorum Senatus Dolani, in quibus multa tum ad theoriam juris… (Dijon 1731).

literature

• F. Th. Richter: Grivel (Jean) . In: Johann Samuelansch , Johann Gottfried Gruber (Ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , 1st Section, Vol. 91 (1871), p. 436 f.