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Bickell, Johann Wilhelm

BICKELL, JOHANN WILHELM: Writer on canon law; b. at Marburg Nov. 2, 1799; d. at Cassel Jan. 23, 1848. He studied law at Marburg and Göttingen; was professor of jurisprudence at Marburg, 1824–34; president of the supreme court of Hesse-Cassel, 1841, and minister of state, 1846. He wrote Ueber die Entstehung . . . des Corpus Juris Canonici (Marburg, 1825); Ueber die Reform der protestantischen Kirchenverfassung (1831); Ueber die Verpflichtung der evangelischen Geistlichen auf die symbolischen Schriften (Cassel, 1839; 2d ed., 1840); of his Geschichte des Kirchenrechts, only one volume was completed (part i, Giessen, 1843; part ii, Frankfort, 1849).

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