Rudolf Sohm (1841 to 1917) was a German jurist, theologian, and church historian born in Rostock, who held professorships at Gottingen, Freiburg, Strasbourg, and Leipzig. His best known work, the two volume Kirchenrecht, published in 1892 and 1923, argued that ecclesiastical law contradicts the true nature of the church, since the early Christian community was held together by spiritual charisma rather than legal structure, an idea that later influenced the sociologist Max Weber. Beyond canon law, Sohm served on the committee that drafted the second version of the German Civil Code, accepted by the Reichstag in 1896, and also wrote influential works on Roman law and German legal history.
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