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    Published: 2022-08-20
    Vol. 22 No. 2 (2022)

    You don’t necessarily have to be an LL.D.: how to obtain a doctor’s degree from the University of Ingolstadt (Bavaria) in 1644

    Piotr Niczyporuk
    Zeszyty Prawnicze
    Section: Artykuły
    https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2022.22.2.08

    Abstract

    On July 11, 1644, Aron Aleksander Olizarowski obtained a doctor’s degree in Laws from the University of Ingolstadt. At least 828 students from Poland–Lithuania studied at Ingolstadt in the period from 1473 tob1700, but only 383 of them read for the Doctor Utriusque Iuris degree. We know of at least 110 Polish students in the Faculty of Laws, but the figure could well have been much more, about 300.

    Aron Aleksander Olizarowski was one of the few Poles who graduated as a Doctor Utriusque Iuris (Doctor of Roman (Civil) and Canon Law) from the University of Ingolstadt. As a rule, those whose aim was graduation were planning a career in academia or in the service of the Church or State. Obtaining the Doctor’s Degree in Laws from Ingolstadt certainly helped Aron Aleksander Olizarowski and his friend Szymon Dilger to be appointed to professorships at the University of Wilno (Vilnius). Baron Fryderyk Aleksander Kotulynski and Tomas Hornaeus were two other Ingolstadt graduates who rose in the world and held office in the service of the Polish–Lithuanian state, no doubt on the strength of their academic qualifications. The requirements for the degree of Doctor Utriusque Iuris from the University of Ingolstadt were high, but did not differ much from what was required at other European universities. The candidate had to have the right education for admission, be enrolled, and pass the prescribed examination, so it is surprising that only a handful of students from Poland–Lithuania managed to graduate as with a Doctor Utriusque Iuris from Ingolstadt.

    Keywords:

    Aron Aleksander Olizarowski; the University of Ingolstadt; the degree of Doctor Utriusque Iuris; professor; requirements for admission to a course of study for the doctor’s degree; the university register; proceedings for the award of the doctor’s degree; enrolment; examination for the award of the doctor’s degree.

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    Niczyporuk, P. (2022). You don’t necessarily have to be an LL.D.: how to obtain a doctor’s degree from the University of Ingolstadt (Bavaria) in 1644. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 22(2), 141–167. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2022.22.2.08

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