特奥多尔·蒙森(Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen),德国著名历史学家、法学家。早年在基尔大学攻读法律和语言学,1842年获哲学博士学位。后长期在大学教授历史,对古代史,特别是罗马史有精湛的研究。他也是一个突出的政治家,曾是普鲁士和德国的国会议员。他对罗马法的研究对德国民法典有着重大的影响。撰有《罗马公法》和《罗马史》等多部重要著作。1902年因《罗马史》获得诺贝尔文学奖,成为世界上迄今第一位,也是唯一一位获此殊荣的历史学家。
"Indeed a father might convey his son as well as his slave in property to a third person: if the purchaser was a foreigner, the son became his slave; if he was a Roman, the son, while as a Roman he could not become a Roman's slave, stood at least to his purchaser in a slave's stead (-in mancipii caus"