Juridic process
The processus juridicus contra sagas et veneficos is a work by Hermann Goehausen that deals with the doctrine of witches in the 17th century . The book is not the only one on the theory of witchcraft (see Witch Theorists ), but it is by far the most important printed article on the subject.
In his work PROCESSUS JURIDICUS contra sagas & veneficos , published in Rinteln in 1630 . That is: Legal Proceß / How one should proceed against fiends and magical persons is expressed the particularly tough attitude that characterized the Rinteln Law Faculty in the witch trials, especially by Goehausen. As a member of the Spruchkollegium, Goehausen often used cases, evidence and illustrative material from Rinteln's Spruchpraxis in his statements. The book is not the only one on the theory of witchcraft, but it is by far the most important printed article on the subject. The pronounced practical relevance of the work made it a handbook for all members of verdict colleges and rural judges, in that it dispenses with all discussions about the nature of evil and its ghosts etc. and deals briefly and precisely with what interests judges: circumstantial evidence, torture, criminal offense , Confiscation.
Goehausen's book consists of two parts: the processus juridicus and the decisiones . The first part had already appeared in 1629 and was initially associated with the Jesuit Paul Laymann (1574–1635), from whose Theologia moralis large parts had been taken. However, this ascription soon turned out to be wrong. In the 3rd edition of his work Theologia moralis , Laymann spoke out against abuses in the witch trials and wrote in the foreword to this edition on April 24, 1630: “I added not a little in several places, but especially about the witch trial, since I believed that this extremely important subject, on which both theologians and lawyers in Germany had different opinions, had to be examined in more detail. "
In sharp contradiction and as a reaction to Goehausen's book, Friedrich von Spee published his counter- writ Cautio criminalis , anonymously only one year later (1631), which was published by Petrus Lucius in the same Rinteln university print shop .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Schormann: witch trials in Germany . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, 1996. ISBN 3-525-33456-7 , p. 38 f.
- ↑ Paul Hoensbroech: "The Jesuit Order: an encyclopedia from the sources", P. Haupt 1927, p. 342
- ^ Emmy Rosenfeld: Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld. A voice in the desert. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1958 (= sources and research on the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic peoples. New series, 2), p. 384.
- ↑ Schormann: Witches Trials in Germany , p. 39.
- ↑ Manfred Brandl, Hugo Hurter: "The German Catholic Theologians of Modern Times: A Repertory, Volume 3, Part 2", W. Neugebauer 2006