Johannes Loccenius

Johannes Loccenius (Johan Locken)[1] (13 March 1598 – 27 July 1677) was a German jurist and historian, known as an academic in Sweden.

[3] As librarian also at the University of Uppsala, he received the embassy of Bulstrode Whitelocke, and they discussed English jurists including Francis Bacon and John Selden.

[8] As legal antiquarian Loccenius published an edition of the corpus of Swedish provincial law, the Lex Sueo-Gothorum.

[9] His Synopsis juris ad leges Sueticas accommodata (1648) was an early example of the 17th-century use of the Decalogue to classify capital crimes.

He initially minimised the pre-Christian period, and he followed Ericus Olai in arguing that foreign kings were responsible for negative aspects of the history.

Johannes Loccenius, 1842 lithograph.
Frontispice of his book Politicarum dissertationum syntagma , 1608
De jure maritimo et navali , 1652.