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3 unusual facts about Arnoldus Clapmarius


Arnoldus Clapmarius

His papers were edited by his brother Johannes (1605), who published the major book De arcanis rerum publicarum libri sex; there were later editions by Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus (1641), and Martinus Schoock (1668, 1672).

He was appointed successor to Christoph Coler at Altdorf by Moritz of Hesse-Kassel, as professor of history and politics; he died four years later.

Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus

With Gerard de Wassenaer and Pieter de la Court he was one of a group of legal writers with Remonstrant sympathies who commented on reason of state; Corvinus did this in an edition of the De arcanis rerumpublicarum of Arnoldus Clapmarius (1641).



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