Justus Henning Böhmer

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Justus Henning Böhmer (1674-1749) was, according to Peter Landau, the most significant German jurist of the 18th century. Landau considers his Introductio in ius digestorum to be the best Roman law textbook of that time.

Born in Hanover, Böhmer studied at Jena and taught law in Halle from 1699 on. In 1743 he became chancellor of the Duchy of Magdeburg.

As a civil lawyer, Böhmer was a proponent of the usus modernum pandectarum as proposed by Samuel Stryks. His principal contributions, though, were to ecclesiastical law. With his Ius ecclesiasticum Protestantium (1714-39) he was the first to provide a systematic analysis of Evangelical church law. According to Böhmer, the state cannot rule on issues of faith, but has authority to regulate practical matters such as marriage law. His ideas were influential in the later formulation of the 1794 Allgemeines Landrecht für die preußischen Staaten, the law code of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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• Landau, Peter (2001). "Justus Henning Böhmer", in Michael Stolleis (ed.): Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, 2nd edition (in German), München: Beck, 93. ISBN 3406 45957 9. 

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NAME	Böhmer, Justus Henning
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	German jurist
DATE OF BIRTH	1674
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DATE OF DEATH	1749
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