BENEDIKT

CARPZOV (1595-1666)  , second of the name, was the second son of the preceding, and like him was a great lawyer . He was born at Wittenberg on the 27th of May 1595, was at first a professor at Leipzig, obtained an honourable post at Dresden in 1639, became ordinary of the faculty of jurists at Leipzig in 1645, and was named privy councillor at Dresden in 1653 . Among his works which had a very extensive influence on the administration of justice, even beyond the limits of Saxony, are Definitiones forenses (1638), Practica nova Imperialis Saxonica rerum criminalium (1635), Opus decisionum illustrium Saxoniae (1646), Processus juris Saxonici (1657), and others . He did much, both by his writings and by his official work, to systematize the body of German jurisprudence which had resulted from the intersection of the common law of Saxony with the Roman and Canon laws . His last years were spent at Leipzig, and his time was entirely devoted to sacred studies . He read the Bible through fifty-three times, studying also the comments of Osiander and Cramer, and making voluminous notes . These have been allowed to remain in manuscript . He died at Leipzig on the 30th of August 1666 .