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Brutus, Stephanus Junius

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The name of the author is a pseudonym (it reads exactly “Stephanus Junius Brutus Celta”) of one or more persons who wrote the treatise Vindiciae contra tyrannos (Verdict against Tyrants). The pseudonym was probably inspired by the name of Marcus Junius Brutus, the assassin of Julius Caesar.

Theodore Beza, Hubert Languet, and Philippe Du Plessis Mornay have been considered the actual authors in the past (Garnett 1994, lv–lxxvi), and there are also conjectures about the authorship of some other persons, such as the not very conclusive theory concerning Johan Junius de Jonghe (Visser 1971). The thesis of Languet’s authorship or co-authorship was refuted by Béatrice Nicollier-De Weck in 1995, and so Philippe Du Plessis Mornay, whose authorship is convinced Daussy 2002, remains the most likely author.

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  1. Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy (CCS IF), Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prague, Czech Republic

    Marta Vaculínová

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Vaculínová, M. (2022). Brutus, Stephanus Junius. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_986-1

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