Johann von Breitenbach

Biography

• Born in Leipzig.
• Studied in Perugia.
• 1465: Doctorate
• Judicial Vicar in Meissen.
• 1479: Worked at the Faculty of Jurisprudence in Leipzig as successor of Johann von Eberhausen.
• Died in 1507.

Activities as Canonist

• Repetitio c. Omnis utriusque sexus
• Repetitio de statu monachorum et canonicorum
• Repetitiones variae
• Additiones ad lecturam Johannis Andreae super arbore consaguinitatis et affinitatis
• Consilia
• Tractatus de successionibus ab intestato

Editions and Sources

• Repetitio capituli „Sententiam sanguinis“ sub titulo “Ne clerici vel monachi” (Lib. Extra 3, 50,9), Melchior Lotter, Leipzig 1499.
• Repetitio capitula “Lator De homicidio” (Lib. Extra 5,12,9), Wolfgang Stöckel, Leipzig 1498.
• Tractatus de successionibus ab intestato, Gregor Boettiger, Leipzig 1494.
• Johannes, Andreae: Lectura super arboribus consanguinitatis, Lipsia 1508.
• Kapp, Johann Erhard: De Johannis a Breitenbach Iurisconsulti Lipsiensis scriptis quibusdam et praecipue de eius consiliis mss. CVI, Lipsis 1754.
• See further: Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.

 Introductory Secondary Literature

• see Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• see Legal History Sources.
• SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich von: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts. Von Papst Gregor IX. bis zum Concil von Trient, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1877, pp.336-337.