from well-travelled – marianne vasara-aaltonen 307 sort of education, probably in the spirit of the noble education of the time,873 and some non-nobles, one of whom was certainly an educated man, the rest having some practical knowledge from the administration and local judiciary. A telling sign of the difficulty of finding qualified men for the third class is the case of Carl Christofferson. He was nominated for the position of third class assessor in 1616, but he declined because he had no experience of the judiciary, did not understand “thosematters,” had not studied, and was therefore “completely unsuitable.”874 It must have been slim pickings, if Christoffersson was seen as fit to work as an assessor. By 1634, the court had already firmly established its position. The number of educated judges had, however, risen only slightly. Of the 20 judges, 13 appear to have some experience of studies. Of those 13, eight or nine had studied in Uppsala and one in Linköping. The vast majority of educated judges, 11/13, had been abroad. Again it is the noble judges who had studied the most. In addition to the president and vice president, four out of five first class assessors and four out of six second class assessors had studied. We see some extensiveperegrinationes – President Gabriel Oxenstierna (1587 –1640), first class assessor Per Brahe (1602 –1680) and second class assessor Schering Rosenhane (1609 – 1663) – as well as trips to only one or two foreign universities. Places and universities visited included Greifswald, Rostock, Wittenberg, Jena, Giessen, Strassburg, Helmstedt, Tübingen, Leiden, Padua, Bologna, London, France and Holland.875 We know that among the visits vice president Carl Horn (1598 – 1639) had held anoratioin honour of the Swedish king in Leiden in 1621,876 and that first class assessor Åke Axelsson Natt och Dag (1594 –1655) had defended a dissertation entitled De regia successione (probably written by the praeses Christoph Besold (1577 – 1638), a proponent of the theory of federalism) in the 1610s in Tübingen. There he also held an Oratio contra Poliniam, 873 For the educational ideal of the nobility see e.g., Giese, Simone 2009. 874 “Som motiv anförde han, att han ’aldrig varit övad eller brukad i rättegångssaker, varken i städer på rådstuga, ej heller å landsting’. Därför sade han sig icke förstå sig på ’sådana saker, ej heller haver hans lägenhet varit mycket till att studera; är för den skull därtill alldeles oduglig’,” cited in Almquist, Jan Eric 1943 p. 100. 875 Anjou, A. 1899; Die Matrikel der Universität Jena, 1548–1652 p. 231, Ältere UniversitätsMatrikeln II, Universität Greifswald p. 36; Callmer, Christian 1988 p. 31; Wittrock, G. 1925; Boëthius, B. 1925; Boëthius, B. 1931; Callmer, Christian 1988 p. 33; Mörner, Magnus – Skoglund, Lars-Olof 1998-2000; Callmer, Christian 1976 p. 55. 876 Anjou, A. 1899 p. 45; Van der Woude kaartregister, UBA.
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