from well-travelled – marianne vasara-aaltonen 305 information has been augmented with information found in the university matriculation records of Uppsala, Leiden, Wittenberg, Strassburg, Greifswald, Rostock, Jena, Halle and Tübingen.867 The education and careers of the judges are first examined separately in the next two sections. The changes in education and career paths are then put into context with the aim of explaining what caused them. In 1614 when the Court was founded, it consisted of 14 members, divided into three classes as mentioned before. The president, Magnus Brahe (1564 –1633), vice president Olof Stråle (1578 –1648) and three of the four assessors of the first class had followed some studies, although the information does not always specify where they had been. Only two of them had with certainty studied abroad;868 vice president Stråle and the assessor lexicon, which has more up-to-date information than Anjou’s register. 867 As there are many judges for whom Anjou’s record only states “study and travel abroad” a complete picture of their education would require going through all matriculation records of all European universities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As not all matriculation records have name registers this is a task beyond the scope of this article. The Leiden records are, however, indicative of the incomplete information in Anjou’s register. Anjou’s compilation of biographies lists three of our judges as having studied in Leiden. Augmented by the Svenskt biografiskt lexikon(SBL), another two enrolled in Leiden. Comparing the list of judges from the sample years with the Leiden records reveals that in addition there were three judges whom Anjou lists as having “studied or travelled abroad”, who were also enrolled in Leiden. What is more interesting is that there are four judges who had studied in Leiden but are not even mentioned as having travelled abroad in Anjou’s register. Anjou’s information on three judges can therefore be corrected to twelve, which is quite a significant increase. For many of the other universities, such as Halle, Rostock and Greifswald, however, the information found in Anjou augmented by theSBLseems accurate. Keeping all this in mind, one can assume that the true number of foreign trained judges may be somewhat higher than Anjou’s records suggest and that there is some foreign university study among the “travel abroad” listed in the register. 868 As the matriculation records of some of the universities have revealed that some men whom Anjou had only listed as “travelled abroad” had actually enrolled at a university, these journeys have also been counted as studies abroad. Since they took place before these men began their careers, it is likely that they were journeys for education. The general mention of “travel abroad” were especially common among the 1654 judges, many of whom had been youngsters during the golden age of Swedish peregrinations abroad. This would also indicate that these trips were in fact for study. Unfortunately, the reThe Education of the Judges: From the Grand Tour to Studies in Uppsala Increasingly Educated Judges: 1614 –1674
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