Gerhard Noodt was a Dutch jurist, born in Nijmegen. Educated at Leiden, Utrecht

Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...

 and Franeker

Franeker

Franeker is one of the eleven historical cities of Friesland and capital of the municipality of Franekeradeel. It is located about 20 km west of Leeuwarden on the Van Harinxma Canal. As of 1 January 2006, it had 12,996 inhabitants. The city is famous for the Eisinga Planetarium from around...

, he became a professor of law at Nijmegen

University of Nijmegen (1655-1680)

The University of Nijmegen was the first university in Nijmegen, Netherlands and existed between 1655 and ±1680....

 and Franeker

University of Franeker

The University of Franeker was a university in Franeker, Friesland, presently part of the Netherlands. It was the second oldest university of the Netherlands, founded shortly after Leiden University....

. As a writer on jurisprudence

Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions...

 he acquired a wide reputation. His Latin

Latin

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 style was modelled after the best writers, and his numerous works soon rose to the rank of standard authorities. Two of his political treatises were translated into French

French language

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 by Jean Barbeyrac

Jean Barbeyrac

-Life:Born at Béziers in Lower Languedoc, the nephew of Charles Barbeyrac, a distinguished physician of Montpellier. He moved with his family into Switzerland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. After spending some time at Geneva and Frankfurt am Main, he became professor of belles-lettres...

, and appeared at Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 in 1707 and 1714, under the respective titles of Pouvoir des souverains and Libert de conscience.

The first edition of his collected works was published at Leiden in 1724 and the last in 1767. That of 1735 and those subsequent contain a life of the author by Barbeyrac.

Works

• De civili prudentia, 1679
• De religione ab imperio jure gentium libera, 1706
• an unfinished commentary on the Pandects
  Pandects
  The Digest, also known as the Pandects , is a name given to a compendium or digest of Roman law compiled by order of the emperor Justinian I in the 6th century .The Digest was one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the body of civil law issued under Justinian I...
  
  , 1716