About Gabriel Mudaeus
Lived 1500 – 1560. Gabriel Mudaeus was a jurist and university teacher.
Gabriel Mudaeus (c. 1500, Brecht – 21 April 1560, Leuven), born Gabriël van der Muyden, was a Flemish jurist and humanist who revived the study of law in the Habsburg Netherlands.
As a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Louvain, Mudaeus introduced the Erasmian method of research into a field that had been dominated exclusively by tradition; among his pupils were François Baudouin, Jacob Reyvaert (Raevardus), and Matthew Wesenbeck.
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Flemish jurist and humanist
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Gabriel Mudaeus was born in 1500 in Brecht.
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Gabriel Mudaeus died on 21 April 1560 in Leuven.
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Gabriel Mudaeus was a jurist and university teacher.
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