Johann Oldendorp (c. 1486Harold J. Berman
''Faith and order''
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1993, p. 164. – 3 June 1567) was a German jurist and reformer. Oldendorp was born in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

. He was the son of a merchant and the nephew (on his mother's side) of the historian

Albert Krantz Albert Krantz (December 7, 1517), German historian, was a native of Hamburg. He studied law, theology and history at Rostock and Cologne, and after travelling through western and southern Europe was appointed professor, first of philosophy and s ...

, from whom he probably received his early education. In 1504, he attended the

University of Rostock The University of Rostock (german: link=no, Universität Rostock) is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in contine ...

and later graduated from the university of

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

, Italy, in 1515. In 1516, he was appointed Professor at

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...

, where he served from 1517 as the Rector. He received his doctorate in 1520, and became a professor at the University of Frankfurt / Oder. In 1526 he moved to

Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, ...

where he became a civic official: in 1534 he transferred to

Lübeck Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...

and held a similar position. In 1543, he went to Cologne and was recalled by Landgrave Philipp I of Hesse in July 1543 to

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approx ...

. This was the first Protestant university. Oldendorp wrote on topics that covered a variety of legal and philosophical issues regarding history; one of his printers was

Andreas Kolbe Andreas Kolbe (fl. 1557) was a German printer, prominent in Marburg in the 1540s and 1550s. As of 1540 he ran Christian Egenol's printing shop in Marburg. In 1546 he published for Johann Oldendorp, a jurist. He was a known printer of Hans Staden ...

. He died in Marburg in 1567.

Works

* ''Wat byllich und recht ist'', Rostock, 1529. * ''Ratmannenspiegel'', Rostock, 1530. * ''Iuris naturalis gentium et civilis isagoge'', Antwerp, 1539. * ''Loci communes iuris civilis'', Lowen, 1545. *

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''Johann Oldendorp, Jurist of the Protestant Revolution''
1486 births 1567 deaths Jurists from Hamburg Writers from Hamburg People of the Count's Feud 16th-century German jurists {{Germany-law-bio-stub