Dominicus Arumaeus

Dominicus Arumaeus, also Arumäus, actually Arum, (c. 1579 in Leeuwarden ( Netherlands); † February 24, 1637 in Jena ) was a German legal scholar and former kingdom publicist.

Life

Arumaeus studied since 1593 in Franeker, then in Oxford, Rostock and possibly in Helmstedt. In 1599 he went as a tutor to a son of the mayor of Stade to the University of Jena. There he received his doctorate on 31 March 1600 and married that same day. In 1602 he received the appointment as an associate and in 1605, full professor, first of Roman private law, later German Empire State law. In 1634 he is Professor of the Jena law school.

Several times he should be acted as an envoy in the Weimar government service. However, far greater significance to his work in the establishment of an independent German constitutional theory, from which the early Empire journalism should emerge and why they dubbed him partly as the "father of journalist ". From the during the 17th century discussed in the Holy Roman Empire, political ideas, inter alia, the doctrine of dual or "double" sovereignty to him goes back and was first rezipiert by him in Germany.

Numerous later to fame came in constitutional law and thinker are his disciples, including John Limnaeus and Bogislaw Philipp von Chemnitz.

Empire State doctrine

Arumaeus led his concept of dual sovereignty in his Discursus academici de iure publico of 1620ff. from. According to him the sovereignty remains with the generality of the kingdom, represented by the estates of the Empire, which therefore subject to the maiestas are realistic. The maiestas personaliz comes contrast - unlike later Limnaeus - only the Emperor. Overall Arumaeus, the imperial position and dignity out strong, he wants to preserve as much of the old Reichsherkommen and the royal rule. Accordingly, he also uses the translatio imperii theory arguments. Although the emperor own against the imperial estates not an absolute power, but is rightly monarch and the kingdom therefore monarchy.

Works

  • Exercitationes Iustiniani ad Institutiones ( 1607)
  • Tractatus de methodicus mora ( 1608)
  • Decisionum et Sententiam libri II ( 1612 )
  • Disputationes ad praecipuas pandectarum et Codicis leges, consuetudines feudal, quatuor libros Institionum ( 1613ff. )
  • Discursus academici de iure publico, Vol 1 ( 1615), vols 2-5 ( 1620-1623 )
  • Discursus academici ad Auream Bullam ( 1617ff. )
  • Commentarius iuridico - historico - politicus de comitiis Romano - germanici Imperii ( 1630ff. )
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