Adrianus Catharinus Holtius

Adrianus Catharinus Holtius (born October 13, 1786 in Koudekerke , † March 29, 1861 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch legal scholar.

Life

The son of Hendrik Holtius (born September 16, 1753 in Leiden ; † August 29, 1792) and Adriana Catharina Vosmaer (born January 6, 1755 in The Hague; † January 21, 1839 in Utrecht) received private lessons and had his father at an early age lost. His mother then married the pastor Reinier Schweigholt (died August 14, 1763 in Amsterdam; † March 3, 1831 in Loenen ) in Koudekerk , from whom the young Holtius received the first instructions on the Latin and Greek languages. The family then lived in Zierikzee and Loenen . After attending schools in Leiden and Heusden , he enrolled at the University of Utrecht in 1809 to study law. He also attended the lectures of Philipp Wilhelm van Heusde . Cornelis Willem de Rhoer and Hermann Arntzenius exerted particular influence on his legal studies during this time . After he had obtained his doctorate in law on April 6, 1811 in Utrecht under Arntzenius with the thesis Quaestiones juridicae inaugurales , he worked as a lawyer in Zierikzee.

In 1812 Holtius was given a court position in Loenen and in 1814 moved to Amersfoort as a mortgage keeper. After his brother-in-law Jan Richard de Brueys accepted an appointment at the University of Utrecht in 1815, Holstius took over his professorship at the Athenaeum in Deventer . He began this task on October 24, 1816 with the speech de literarum studio inprimis graecarum cum jurisprudentia conjungendo . From May to October 1819 he went on an educational trip that took him to the University of Göttingen . Here he attended the lectures of Gustav von Hugo . When he returned to the Netherlands, he drew attention to himself with some work and was appointed professor for civil and commercial law at the University of Groningen on April 22, 1821 . He took on this task on September 22, 1821 with the introductory speech Oratio de Iure Praetorio, cum apud Romanos, tum apud Anglos, ad ius civile supplendum et emendandum aptissimo . On September 30, 1822, he was appointed professor of the institutes and Roman law at the University of Leuven, which he took on on July 29, 1823 with the speech de juris Romani studio etiam post renovatum jus nostrum legibus pernecessario .

In the wake of the Belgian Revolution , Holtius left Leuven. On March 6, 1831, he found a new university professor position in Utrecht, where he was appointed adjunct professor of law, which he assumed on August 23, 1831. On February 23, 1835 he was appointed full professor of law. After he had taken on this task on March 26, 1835, he gave his introductory speech on March 24, 1836, Oratio de liberalitate majorum nostrorum, quae academiis instituendis augendisque cognita est . In his capacity as a Utrecht university lecturer, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1835/36 . At the resignation of the rectorate he gave the speech de liberalitate majorum nostrum quae academiis instituendis augendisque cognita est . On January 1, 1857, he was retired.

Holtius was from 1822 a corresponding and from 1837 a full member of the Royal Dutch Institute of Sciences (KNAW), on June 15, 1837 he became a member of Dutch literature in Leiden and was a committed member of the provincial Utrecht Society of Sciences and Arts. In addition, on November 28, 1840 he became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion .

Holtius married Cecilia de Brueys on May 24, 1815 in The Hague (* May 16, 1792 in St. Oedenrode; † May 18, 1867 in Utrecht), the daughter of Benjamin de Brueys (* May 6, 1742 in The Hague; † August 22, 1826 ibid) and Arnoldina Roosendael (* December 12, 1762 in Den Bosch; † April 1, 1828 in Utrecht). The marriage remained childless.

Works (selection)

Quaestiones Juridicae Inaugurales. Utrecht 1811
Oratio de literarum studio inprimis graecarum cum jurisprudentia conjungendo. Deventer 1817 ( online )
Oratio de Jure Praetorio, cum apud Romanos tum apud Anglos ad Jus Civile supplendum et emendandum aptissimo. Groningen 1822.
Jura, auctoritas, dignitas JCtorum Romanorum inde a temporibus Caesaris Augusti usque ad decessum Justiniani Imperatoris. Amsterdam 1822
Dissertatio de usufructu accrescendo. Lion 1827
Historiae Juris Romani Lineamenta. Löwen 1830 ( online )
Historiae Juris Romani lineamenta. Editio altera, Traj. ad Rhen. 1840 ( online )
Het wisselregt in de XVIde eeuw, volgens de Consilia van Baldus. Amsterdam 1840.
Redevoeringen van Esaias Tegnèr, uit het Zweedsch. Utrecht 1840.
Het Nederlandsche Faillitenregt, volgens het derde boek van het Wetboek van Koophandel, wetenschappelijk Verklaard. Utrecht 1850 ( online )
Commentatio de Consilio sapientis et de transmissione Actorum. Amsterdam 1850
Divorced professional negotiators. Utrecht 1851 ( online ); Translated into German under the title: S. Sutro: Treatises civilistic and commercial law content. Utrecht 1852 ( online )

literature

J. Heemskerk: Levensberigt van Mr. Adrianus Catharinus Holtius. In: Handelingen der jaarlijksche algemeene vergadering van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, owned on June 19, 1862, in het gebouw der Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen te Leiden. Leiden 1862
Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1867, vol. 8, part 2, p. 1009 ( online )
J. van Kuyk: HOLTIUS (Adrianus Catharinus) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 2. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 597–598 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1912, reprinted unchanged).

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personal data
SURNAME	Holtius, Adrianus Catharinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koudekerke
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 1861
Place of death	Utrecht