Emil Seckel was a German jurist and legal historian who specialized in Roman law and medieval legal sources at the turn of the twentieth century. He held a professorship at the University of Berlin, served as rector of what is now Humboldt University, and was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1911. His major scholarly undertaking was an extensive study of the ninth-century capitularies attributed to Benedictus Levita, for which he prepared over a thousand pages of source material intended for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, the great edition of medieval German historical sources. Seckel died before completing the new edition, but his research remained the standard foundation for later work on the text.
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RoleJurist and law historian 2 Nationality / Jurisdiction Place of Death Classification
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Did Emil Seckel complete the edition of Benedictus Levita?
No. He did pioneering source criticism but never began the edition itself.
No. The Monumenta Germaniae Historica gave him the editing task in 1896 and he worked on Benedictus Levita until his death in 1924. He did groundbreaking work in source criticism, but he never began the edition itself. His successor Josef Juncker continued the source-critical studies, and he too got stuck at the early stages of the edition.
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Emil Seckel (10 January 1864, Neuenheim near Heidelberg - 26 April 1924, Todtmoos) was a German jurist and law historian.
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On December 7, 1911, he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
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Emil Seckel was a German jurist and legal historian who specialized in Roman law and medieval legal sources at the turn of the twentieth century.
Introduction
Emil Seckel (10 January 1864, Neuenheim near Heidelberg - 26 April 1924, Todtmoos) was a German jurist and law historian.
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was a German jurist and law historian
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Wikidata Q124165, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1864
Wikidata Q124165, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1864-01-10
Wikidata Q124165, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1924
Wikidata Q124165, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1924-04-26
Wikidata Q124165, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Neuenheim
Wikidata Q124165, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Todtmoos
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