Christopher Besoldus
Christopher Besoldus (Christoph Besold) (1577 – September 1638) was a German jurist and publicist whose writing is seen as important for the history of the causes of the Thirty Years' War.
Life
He was born of
He graduated as Doctor of Law in 1598; and in 1610 became professor of law at Tübingen. Among his pupils was
He read the Scriptures, the writings of the
Works
He knew 9 languages including
The Thesaurus Practicus (1629), an alphabetical and encyclopedic work defining legal and other terms, ran to many editions, being taken up by his student Johann Jacob Speidel (died 1666) and others.[9]
His publication of three volumes of documents from the Stuttgart archives was tendentious. Their contents suggested that the immediate dependency of the Württemberg monasteries on the Empire (Reichsunmittelbarkeit) implied for the local dukes the obligation of restoring the confiscated religious property.
He translated the satirical Ragguagli di Parnaso of Trajano Boccalini.[10]
- Signatura temporum, 1614.
- Axiomatha philosophica-theologica, Strasburg 1616.
- Politicorum libri due, Frankfurt 1618.
- De verae philosophiae fundamento discursus, Tübingen 1619.
- Pentas Dissertationum philologicarum, Tübingen 1620.
Notes
- ^ "Gale e. Christianson- Kepler's Somnium: Science Fiction and the Renaissance Scientist".
- ^ Edward Rosen, Kepler's Somnium: the dream, or posthumous work on lunar astronomy (2003), p. 107.
- ^ "Renaissance and Reformation, 1999".
- ^ Herbert Jaumann, Handbuch Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit (2004), p. 93.
- ISBN 978-0-7923-6847-2. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
- ^ "Avenar" (in German). Archived from the original on 2007-07-20. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ^ J. H. Burns, (editor), The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450–1700 (1991), p. 662.
- ^ (in German), Andreas Schwennicke, "Ohne Steuer kein Staat": zur Entwicklung und politischen Funktion des Steuerrechts in den Territorien des Heiligen Römischen Reichs (1500-1800) (1996), p. 112; Google Books.
- ^ (in German) http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/besold.html
- ^ R. J. W. Evans, Rudolf II and his World (1973), p. 281.
External links
- WorldCat for Christophorus Besoldus
- Open Library page
- de:s:ADB:Besold, Christoph
- (in German) https://books.google.com/books?[id=mzknkKS1jqQC&pg=PA9 Biography in Ferdinand Elsener, Lebensbilder zur Geschichte der Tübinger Juristenfakultät (1977)]
- (in German) http://www.ubs.sbg.ac.at/sosa/besold.htm
- (in German) CAMENA at uni-mannheim.de
- (in German) https://web.archive.org/web/20110721160903/http://www.his-data.de/zedler/0/3/14/99/zedler-3-1499-8-daten.htm
- (in French) At idref.fr
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Christopher Besoldus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.