Mommsen–Krüger edition

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The Mommsen–Krüger edition is a landmark critical scholarly edition of the Digest of Justinian, prepared in the 19th century by Theodor Mommsen and Paul Krüger and still widely used in Roman law studies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf critical edition
edition of a legal text
scholarly edition
aim to establish a reliable text of the Digest of Justinian
alsoKnownAs Mommsen-Krüger edition NERFINISHED
Mommsen–Krüger text of the Digest NERFINISHED
associatedWith 19th-century German legal science
Pandectist scholarship
basedOn Digest of Justinian NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Germany
discipline classics
jurisprudence
editor Paul Krüger NERFINISHED
Theodor Mommsen NERFINISHED
field Roman law studies
legal history
genre legal text edition
hasComponent critical apparatus
scholarly notes
textual variants
historicalContext 19th-century philological reconstruction of Roman law texts
influenceOn critical editions of other Roman legal texts
modern Roman law studies
language Latin
notableFor being a landmark critical edition of the Digest of Justinian
extensive philological and textual criticism
publicationCentury 19th century
scholarlyReputation standard reference text for the Digest of Justinian
status still widely used
subject Digest of Justinian NERFINISHED
Justinianic law NERFINISHED
Roman law
timePeriod 19th century
title Mommsen–Krüger edition NERFINISHED
typeOfText Latin legal codification edition
usedBy Roman law scholars
classicists
legal historians
usedIn Roman law scholarship
legal historical research
university teaching of Roman law
workOf Paul Krüger NERFINISHED
Theodor Mommsen NERFINISHED

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Digest of Justinian hasCanonicalEdition Mommsen–Krüger edition