Education
Born Douwe van Arum in Friesland, he studied law in Franeker (as early as 1593), Oxford, Rostock and finally Jena, where he married Anna Pingitzer on March 31, 1600.
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Born Douwe van Arum in Friesland, he studied law in Franeker (as early as 1593), Oxford, Rostock and finally Jena, where he married Anna Pingitzer on March 31, 1600.
He remained there as a professor, rector and councillor at Weimar and was buried in Jena on February 27 1637. In his five-volume Discursus academici de iure publico (1615–1623), Arumaeus pioneered public law as a distinct field of study.
