Heinrich von Cocceji

Heinrich Freiherr von Cocceji (1644 to 1719) was a German jurist from Bremen. He studied in Leiden and Oxford and was appointed professor of law at Heidelberg in 1672 and at Utrecht in 1688. Named Geheimrat and marquis, he became ordinary professor in the faculty of law at Frankfurt an der Oder, where he later died. His main work, the Juris publici prudentia of 1695, was for a long time the main compendium of German state law. His Anatomia juris gentium of 1718 was widely circulated, and his other works include the Juris feudalis hypomnemata of 1702, reissued in 1715 and 1727, and a legal disputation on the concurrence of several jurisdictions in the same place.