Anne Siberdinus de Blécourt

Anne Siberdinus de Blécourt

Anne Siberdinus de Blécourt (born October 4, 1873 in Appingedam , † November 8, 1940 in The Hague ) was a Dutch lawyer and legal historian.

Life

Anne Siberdinus was born as the son of the notary Lucas Wildervanck de Blécourt (born September 9, 1827 in Wildervank; † May 8, 1891 in Appingedam) and his wife Wilhelmina Tresling (born May 6, 1836 in Scharmer; † September 10, 1912 in Groningen) born. After completing his Abitur at the grammar school in Nijmegen , he studied law at the University of Groningen from 1892 . Here he received his doctorate in law on July 5, 1897, then worked as a lawyer and volunteer at the Reichsarchiv in Groningen and from 1898 as an archivist in Rotterdam . In 1901 he moved to the provincial registry of North Holland in Haarlem as a clerk , in 1903 he became an assistant judge at the district court in Zutphen , where he was promoted to judge in 1907. In 1911 he worked as a judge in Utrecht and in 1914 in the same capacity in The Hague .

On May 9, 1917, he was appointed to the professorship of Dutch historical law at the University of Leiden , which he did on June 27 of the same year with the introductory speech Het belang van het Oud-Vaderlandsch Recht voor dezen tijd (German: The meaning of the old patriotic law for this time ). In 1918 he founded the Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis (German: Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschiedenis ), became a member of the Society for Old Patriotic Law in 1923 and founded the Legal History Institute in Leiden in 1928. In the academy year 1935/36 he was elected rector of the Leiden Alma Mater , in which capacity he gave the rector's speech Het historically en juridische bewijs (German: The historical and legal evidence ) in February 1936 . In 1936 he received an honorary doctorate from the Sorbonne in Paris and was knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion . On October 1, 1939, he retired from his professorship and died a year later.

family

Blécourt married Willemina Helena Roijaards (born June 25, 1870 in Oisterwijk, † December 1, 1966 in Bloemendaal) in The Hague on May 29, 1902, the daughter of Lodewijk Gerard Royaards (born November 3, 1830 in Arnhem; † 30 March 1918 in The Hague) and his wife Anna Helena Holleman (born February 2, 1842 in Oisterwijk; † June 11, 1929 in The Hague). The marriage has two sons and a daughter. From the children we know:

• Lucas de Blécourt (born February 10, 1903 in Haarlem, † October 30, 1966 in Amsterdam) married. Married 10 January 1928 in The Hague with Catharina van der Veen Vonk (* 7 August 1903 in Zutphen; † 10 November 1969 in Wassenaar). II on August 5, 1949 in The Hague with Margaretha Francisca Ibeline van Berckel
• Adriaan George de Blécourt (born August 26, 1910 in Zutphen; † November 21, 2010 ibid.) M. December 18, 1948 with Catharina Johanna Teding van Berkhout (born November 18, 1911 in Halfweg; † May 7, 2003 in Zuphen)
• Anna Helena de Blécourt (* 1913 in Zutphen) married. November 21, 1931 in Leiden (closed June 11, 1948) with Hans Creutzberg (* 1913 in Buitenzorg)

Fonts (selection)

• De Ambachten in Rijnland, Delfland and Schieland. Haarlem 1902
• De organisatie der Gemeenten gedurende de jaren 1795–1851. Haarlem 1903
• Het Stadsmeierrecht in de Groninger Veenkoloniën. Groningen 1907
• Right hand van Zierikzee. The Hague 1908 (with W. Bezemer)
• Ambacht en Gemeente; de regeering van een Hollandsch dorp gedurende de 17e, 18e en 19e eeuw. Zutphen 1912
• Het belang van het oud-vaderlandsch right voor dezen tijd. Groningen 1917
• Klein plakkaatboek van Nederland, verzameling van ordonnantiën en plakkaten regeeringsvorm, kerk en rechtsspraak (14e eeuw tot 1749). Groningen 1919 (with N. Japikse)
• Beklemrecht en Stadsmeierrecht. Groningen 1920, 2nd vol.
• Kort Gründip van het oud-vaderlandsch Burgerlijk right. Groningen 1922, 1924, 1932; 1932, 1939, 1950, 1959, 1967
• De vischrechte op de Lek en het vischrecht in de binnenwateren van Lekkerkerk, alsmede over non-usus van dit laatste. Leiden 1926
• De juridische Leeskamers te Leiden. Groningen 1928
• Supplement op de bijlagen van de Genealogy of the de Blécourt family. Haarlem 1930
• Oldambt en Ommelanden. Legal history opstellen met bijlagen. Assen 1935
• Pro Excolendo en legal divorce. Groningen 1937

literature

• R. Feenstra: Blécourt, Anne Siberdinus de (1873-1940). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. The Hague, 1989 ( online )
• Prof. mr. AS de Blécourt overled. In: Leidsch Dagblad. November 9, 1940, p. 2 ( online )
• SJ Fockema Andreae: Mr AS de Blécourt (Appingedam 4 October 1873-the Hague 8 November 1940). In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, 1940-1941. EJ Brill, Leiden, 1941, pp. 2–12 ( online )

Web links

• Blécourt in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
• Blécourt at the Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL)