About Josse Le Plat
Lived 1732 – 1810 (aged 77). Josse Le Plat was a jurist, university teacher, canon law jurist and theologian.
Josse Le Plat (18 November 1732, Mechelen – 6 August 1810, Koblenz) was a legal scholar and law professor at Leuven University.
He favored the reforms that Maria Theresa and later Joseph II wanted to make in higher education. In 1779, he published the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, with preface, notes and variants.
Works Dissertatio canonica de sponsalibus & matrimoniorum impedimentis (1783) available at KU Leuven Special Collections. Academiæ Lovaniensis adumbratio compendiaria (Liège, J.F. Leunckens, 1786) available at KU Leuven Special Collections.
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Who was Josse Le Plat?
Belgian legal scholar
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Josse Le Plat was born on 18 November 1732 in Mechelen.
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Josse Le Plat died on 6 August 1810 in Koblenz.
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Josse Le Plat was a jurist, university teacher, canon law jurist and theologian.
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