Johannes Apel

Biography

• Born: 1486 in Nuremberg.
  
• studied jurisprudence and Humanism in Wittenberg, Leipzig and Erfurt.
• 01.06.1523: secret Marriage with an abducted nun followed by imprisonment.
• 1524: Professor for Jurisprudence in Wittenberg (with support of Martin Luther).
• 1530: Chancellor of Duke Albrecht in Königsberg.
• 1534: Return to Nuremberg.
• Death: 27.04.1536 in Nuremberg

Activities as Canonist

• Creation of a new methodology alongside the mos italicus
• Methodica dialectes ratio ad jurisprudentiam (1527)
• Isagoge (1540)
• Development of a Legal system divided into ius in re (dominium) and ius ad rem (obligatio)

Editions and Sources

• APEL, Johann: Methodica dialectes ratio ad jurisprudentiam, Peypus, Nürnberg 1535.
• APEL, Johann: Isagoge per dialogum in quatuor libros Institutionum, Vinclerus, Wroclaw 1540.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• HERMANN, Lange: Apel, Johann, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953), S. 322.
• WIEACKER, Franz: Einflüsse des Humanismus auf die Rezeption. Eine Studie zu Johannes Apels Dialogus, in: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, Vol. 100, 1940, p.423-456.