Tammo von Bocksdorf

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Tammo von Bocksdorf (* around 1380; † shortly before January 7, 1433) was a doctor of canon law and Canon of Merseburg.

Life

Tammo von Bocksdorf was a member of the Bocksdorf family . His father could have been Hans von Bocksdorf, who can be found in sources in 1371; his mother's name is not recorded. His nephew was probably Dietrich III. from Bocksdorf .

Von Bocksdorf attended the University of Law in Prague from 1399 and moved to the University of Leipzig in 1410 , where he was awarded a Dr. decr. appointed. In 1426 he got a cathedral canon in Merseburg , which was reserved for a teacher of canon law at Leipzig University. Von Bocksdorf must therefore also have taught at the law faculty of Leipzig University. He also had other ecclesiastical benefices in Niederlausitz and there is evidence that he worked in 1416 as an official of Bishop Rudolf von der Planitz . For the church region of Magdeburg he worked as papal nuncio and collector from 1427.

While earlier researchers assumed that von Bocksdorf did not die until after 1460, his date of death is actually before January 7, 1433.

meaning

Von Bocksdorf was considered an important personality in the early phase of German, especially Saxon law. In this regard, he was a forerunner of his much more noteworthy nephew Dietrich III. von Bocksdorf , whom he probably supported in his professional advancement. His nephew used texts previously written by Tammo von Bocksdorf as the basis for his own work; however, the authorship of these works is not always clear.

In 1426 von Bocksdorf wrote for the Archbishop of Magdeburg Günther III. from Schwarzburg . He created an alphabetically sorted overview of references to texts and glosses of well-known legal books. It was a remissorium to the Sachsenspiegel and the Saxon Weichbild . For the first time, this work made it possible to use legal texts that were previously inadequately systematically structured. Only one handwritten version of this remissorium existed. His nephew Dietrich used it as the basis of his own, much more extensive remissorium, which was widely used in printed and handwritten form.

Tammo von Bocksdorf may also have done some minor preparatory work for his nephew's so-called “family rules”, which regulated the relationship in inheritance law in Saxony. He also laid the foundations for some of the "Bocksdorf additions". The texts did not appear until the middle of the 15th century during Dietrich III's creative period.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marek Wejwoda:  Tammo Bock village. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , pp. 773 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Marek Wejwoda:  Tammo Bock village. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , pp. 773 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Marek Wejwoda:  Tammo Bock village. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , pp. 773 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Marek Wejwoda:  Tammo Bock village. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , pp. 773 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Marek Wejwoda:  Tammo Bock village. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 773 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Marek Wejwoda:  Tammo Bock village. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 773 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Bocksdorf, Tammo from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canon lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1380
DATE OF DEATH around 1433