Hugues Doneau was a French legal scholar of the sixteenth century who, like his contemporary Jacques Cujas, worked within the humanist mos gallicus school of Roman law. Where earlier humanists were content to criticize and annotate the received texts, Doneau set out to build a coherent system of law from them, reorganizing the Corpus Juris Civilis along logical rather than its original compilational lines. His major work, the Commentarii de Iure Civili, treats subjects such as possession and ownership with a systematic rigor that influenced later civil law codification. Forced from France as a Huguenot, he taught in Heidelberg, Leiden and Altdorf, spreading his systematic method across Protestant Europe.
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However, because of his Calvinist confession, Doneau had to flee to Geneva after the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572.
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Hugues Doneau was a French legal scholar of the sixteenth century who, like his contemporary Jacques Cujas, worked within the humanist mos gallicus school of Roman law.
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Hugues Doneau, commonly referred also by the Latin form Hugo Donellus, was a French law professor and one of the leading representatives of French legal humanism.
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His best known work Commentarii de iure civili (commentaries on the civil law) (in part edited posthumously by Scipione Gentili) is one of the first attempts to organise the subject matter of Roman law in a logical order rather than according to the sequence of the books and titles of the Digest.
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P570 (date of death): 1591
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P570 (date of death): 1591-05-04
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P19 (place of birth): Chalon-sur-Saône
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P20 (place of death): Altdorf bei Nürnberg
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