Johannes Teutonicus Zemeke
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Johannes Teutonicus Zemeke (died 1245), also Joannes Simeca Teutonicus and John Zimeke, was a
Decretist In the history of canon law, a decretist was a student and interpreter of the ''Decretum Gratiani''. Like Gratian, the decretists sought to provide "a harmony of discordant canons" (''concordia discordantium canonum''), and they worked towards this ...
glossator, best known for his glosses on Gratian's ''Decretum'' in collaboration with Bartholomew of Brescia. He also is known for his theory that a woman who had sex with 23,000 men was a prostitute, whether or not she accepted money for the act.


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1245 deaths 13th-century scholars Year of birth unknown 13th-century German writers 13th-century Latin writers Canon law jurists {{germany-writer-stub