Gabriel Mudaeus ( c. 1500,

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– 21 April 1560,

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), born Gabriël van der Muyden, was a

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jurist and humanist who revived the study of law in the Habsburg Netherlands. As a professor in the Faculty of Law at the

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, Mudaeus introduced the Erasmian method of research into a field that had been dominated exclusively by tradition; among his pupils were

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(Raevardus), and

Matthew Wesenbeck Matthew Wesenbeck (; ; ) (25 October 1531 – 5 June 1586) was a jurist and a student of Gabriel Mudaeus. His Latin surname was also spelled ''Wesembecius'' or ''Vesembecius''. Wesenbeck was a Protestant writer widely known and cited during his ...

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References

* R. C. Van Caenegem, D. E. L. Johnston. ''An Historical Introduction to Private Law.'' Cambridge University Press, 1992. * David M. Walker, ''The Oxford Companion to Law.'' Oxford University Press, 1980. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mudaeus, Gabriel 1500s births 1560 deaths Dutch jurists Flemish Renaissance humanists People from the Habsburg Netherlands Academic staff of the Old University of Leuven