Johann Friedrich Böckelmann

Johann Friedrich Böckelmann (1633 to 1681) was a German jurist born in Steinfurt. He studied law at Heidelberg, where he became a professor in 1661, and was also president of the electoral court of law and a councillor and envoy of the prince elector. In 1670 he moved to teach at Leiden, where he had a lasting influence by introducing the new methodus compendiarium, a teaching method based no longer on the Corpus Iuris Civilis itself but on shorter summaries. His Compendium Institutionum was in use until the nineteenth century, and the University of Leiden still administers a Legatum Böckelmannianum from which one outstanding law student receives a stipend.