Bartłomiej Groicki

Cover of "Porządek sądów y spraw Mieyskich Prawa Maydeburskiego" by Bartłomiej Groicki, from 1562.

Bartłomiej Groicki (c. 1534–1605) was a Polish jurist.

After studies in Cracow (1550–58), he became clerk of the Supreme Court of German Law at Cracow Castle (Ius supremum Magdeburgense castri Cracoviensis). He gained renown for his instructive treatises of Polish municipal law. By publishing a Polish language summary of the 1532 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, he contributed substantially to its popularization in Poland. His stated motivation for the extensive translation of laws into vernacular Polish was so that the laws could be applied even in smaller towns and urban areas where it might be difficult to find Latin speakers.

Groicki authored the first printed law book in Poland, a treatise on the text Speculum Saxonum, which was published by the print-shop of Łazarz Andrysowicz.

References

Uruszczak, Waclaw (2001). "Groicki, Bartlomiej". In Michael Stolleis (ed.). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German) (2nd ed.). München: Beck. p. 264. ISBN 3-406-45957-9.

External links

"Porządek sądów y spraw Mieyskich Prawa Maydeburskiego" at the Digital Library.

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