GIPHANIUS, HUBERTUS (HUBERT van GIFFEN). - Jurist and philologist. B. at Buren (Netherlands) in 1534, d. at Prague in 1604.
He studied at Louvain, Paris, and Orléans with Cujas. In Venice, where he was attached to the French ambassador, he devoted himself to philosophical and philological studies. He then moved to Strasbourg as professor of logic, ethics, and institutions (1570–83), later going to Altdorf and subsequently to Ingolstadt (1590), where he taught law, establishing himself as the greatest jurist of Germany in his time for his extraordinary learning and the breadth of his researches.
In 1599 he was called to the court of Rudolph II as imperial councillor and referendary. Among his works, in which the jurist and the philologist alternate, the following deserve mention: Eiusdem Batracomymonachia, Hymni, etc. (Strasbourg 1572); Lecturae aldorfinae in aliquot Codicis titula Digestorum (Frankfurt 1605); Tractatus feudalis (ibid. 1606); Antinoniae inrisus feudalis (ibid. 1606); Tractatus de diversis regulis inrisus antiqui (Strasbourg 1607); De remunicatiobius (Frankfurt 1608); Commentarii in X libros Ethicorum Aristotelis (ibid. 1608); In IV libros Institutionum iuris civilis commentariis (Strasbourg 1611); Oeconomia iuris (ibid. 1612); Observationes singulares in linguam latinam (Frankfurt 1624).