Johannes Loccenius (Johan Locken) [1] (13 March 1598 – 27 July 1677) was a German jurist and historian, known as an academic in Sweden. [2]
He was born at Itzehoe, Holstein, the son of a tradesman, and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He went to study at Rostock and Helmstedt in 1616, and in 1617 was in Leiden. After a period at Hamburg, where he encountered in particular Holstenius, he returned to Leiden in 1624, where he received a doctorate in law. [3]
Loccenius was recruited by Johan Skytte for Gustavus Adolphus, and went to Sweden. From 1628 to 1642 he taught a humanist and political syllabus as professor skytteanus; from 1634 he also taught Roman law. [3] As librarian also at the University of Uppsala, he received the embassy of Bulstrode Whitelocke, and they discussed English jurists including Francis Bacon and John Selden. [4]
The De jure maritimo was a commentary on Swedish maritime law as published in the Legisterium Sueciæ. [5] As De jure maritimo et navali it went through a number of editions. The maritime law work of Loccenius was later republished, with works by Franz Stypmann and Reinhold Kuricke, by Johann Gottlieb Heineccius. [6] Loccenius wrote in particular on piracy. [7] He was an early author on legal concepts of territorial waters, whose views were quoted long afterwards. [8]
As legal antiquarian Loccenius published an edition of the corpus of Swedish provincial law, the Lex Sueo-Gothorum. [9] His Synopsis juris ad leges Sueticas accommodata (1648) was an early example of the 17th-century use of the Decalogue to classify capital crimes. [10] The Lexicon juris Svevo-Gothicae (1651) was a largely linguistic work.
Loccenius was given the title Rikshistoriograf in 1651. [3] In the 1650s he moved from the study of Swedish medieval law to writing on the general history of Sweden. He initially minimised the pre-Christian period, and he followed Ericus Olai in arguing that foreign kings were responsible for negative aspects of the history. [11] He published:
Johannes Loccenius (Johan Locken) [1] (13 March 1598 – 27 July 1677) was a German jurist and historian, known as an academic in Sweden. [2]
He was born at Itzehoe, Holstein, the son of a tradesman, and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He went to study at Rostock and Helmstedt in 1616, and in 1617 was in Leiden. After a period at Hamburg, where he encountered in particular Holstenius, he returned to Leiden in 1624, where he received a doctorate in law. [3]
Loccenius was recruited by Johan Skytte for Gustavus Adolphus, and went to Sweden. From 1628 to 1642 he taught a humanist and political syllabus as professor skytteanus; from 1634 he also taught Roman law. [3] As librarian also at the University of Uppsala, he received the embassy of Bulstrode Whitelocke, and they discussed English jurists including Francis Bacon and John Selden. [4]
The De jure maritimo was a commentary on Swedish maritime law as published in the Legisterium Sueciæ. [5] As De jure maritimo et navali it went through a number of editions. The maritime law work of Loccenius was later republished, with works by Franz Stypmann and Reinhold Kuricke, by Johann Gottlieb Heineccius. [6] Loccenius wrote in particular on piracy. [7] He was an early author on legal concepts of territorial waters, whose views were quoted long afterwards. [8]
As legal antiquarian Loccenius published an edition of the corpus of Swedish provincial law, the Lex Sueo-Gothorum. [9] His Synopsis juris ad leges Sueticas accommodata (1648) was an early example of the 17th-century use of the Decalogue to classify capital crimes. [10] The Lexicon juris Svevo-Gothicae (1651) was a largely linguistic work.
Loccenius was given the title Rikshistoriograf in 1651. [3] In the 1650s he moved from the study of Swedish medieval law to writing on the general history of Sweden. He initially minimised the pre-Christian period, and he followed Ericus Olai in arguing that foreign kings were responsible for negative aspects of the history. [11] He published: