Jean Charles Naber

Jean Charles Naber

Jean Charles Naber (born March 11, 1858 in Haarlem , † February 14, 1950 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch legal scholar .

Life

Jean Charles was the son of the Amsterdam professor Samuel Adrianus Naber (* July 16, 1828 in The Hague; † May 30, 1913 Amsterdam) and his wife Anna Elizabeth L'Honoré, who was married on July 4, 1855 in The Hague (* July 12 1830 in The Hague; † April 9, 1915 Amsterdam). Encouraged by his father, he had been interested in the Latin language since he was six. After attending the higher middle school in Amsterdam for four years, he switched to the local grammar school in 1873. In 1875 he enrolled as a student at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam , switched to Utrecht University on February 5, 1876, and in 1881 became a student at the University of Amsterdam . Initially he had devoted himself to studying the classical languages, but then switched to studying law. During that time he developed an interest in the history of the golden age of his homeland. This is also reflected in his legal doctoral thesis, De Staatkunde van Johan de Witt (German: The Politics of Johan de Witt ), defended on June 25, 1882 Cum laude . He then worked for a short time as a history teacher and became a lecturer in Roman law in Amsterdam.

On May 6, 1885, he was appointed professor of Roman law at the University of Utrecht, which task he took on with the introductory speech De vormende kracht van het Romeinscherecht (German: About the formative power of Roman law ) given on September 21, 1885 . In 1888, Naber also took over the teaching assignment for Roman legal history, which tasks he carried out until his retirement on November 1, 1927. He had published a large number of articles, mainly in Latin, in the specialist journals Weekblad voor het notariaaten het Rechtsgeleerd Magazijn , Mnemosyne and Rivista di storia del diritto Romano . This also earned him recognition beyond the national borders. In 1927 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Sorbonne in Paris and in 1937 an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens . In 1922 he was elected rector of the Alma Mater , for which he gave the rector's speech De iure et consuetudine (German: Law and Custom ) in 1923 . In 1906 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion .

Naber married on July 11, 1912 in Utrecht with Friederika Augusta Selma Maria van der Osten (* 1863 in Schönebeck, † April 16, 1922 in Utrecht), the daughter of Ferdinand von der Osten and Emilia Riemer. The marriage remained childless.

Works (selection)

• The national studies van Johan de Witt. Utrecht 1882
• Calvinist of Libertijnsch? (1572-1631). Utrecht 1884
• The present cracks with Romeinsche right. Utrecht 1885
• Johan de Witt en zijne jongste divorced. Amsterdam 1888
• Verzameling overdrukjes van tijdschriftartikelen, voorn. trading over Romeinsch right. 1888-1938
• De verhouding van het Romeinsche right dead het hedendaagsche. Utrecht 1889
• Beginselen van grondboekwetgeving. Utrecht 1892
• Over de lex latina tabulae bantinae. 1909
• De jure et consuetudine. Utrecht 1923
• Opusculorum index discipulorum iussu factus. 1925
• De Brachylogi auctore coniectura. 1926

literature

• JE Spruit: Naber, Jean Charles (1858-1950). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. The Hague 1989, Vol. 3 ( Online )
• JC van Oven: Levens report JC Naber. In: Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, 1951-1952. Amsterdam, 1952, pp. 252–263 ( Online PDF )

Web links

• Naber entry at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
• But entry in the Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae
• Naber entry in the digital library of Dutch literature (DBNL)