Anthony Ewoud Jan Modderman

Anthony Ewoud Jan Modderman also: Antonie Ewoud Jan Modderman (born September 27, 1838 in Winschoten , † August 7, 1885 in The Hague ) was a Dutch legal scholar and politician.

Life

The son of the later member of the second chamber Hendrik Jacob Herman Modderman (* June 24, 1796 in Groningen; † September 4, 1859 in The Hague) and his wife Adriana Sibilla Catharina Emmen (* December 15, 1799 in Groningen; † November 10 1880 in The Hague), had attended the trivial school in his hometown in his early youth. Since his father moved to The Hague on business, he attended the school there from 1847 and the grammar school there from September 3, 1850. On September 3, 1850, he completed his admission examination for the university and enrolled on September 15, 1856 for a law degree at the University of Leiden . After he had passed a sufficient number of exams, he received his doctorate on June 13, 1863 with the subject of de Hervorming onzer Strafwetgeving . He then worked as a lawyer at the High Council in The Hague and was appointed Professor of Law at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam on July 21, 1864 . He took up the task on October 24, 1864 with the speech Straf geen kwaad (freely translated into German: Punishments are not bad, Amsterdam 1864). From September 28, 1870, he worked in a state commission which should draw up a new criminal code for the Netherlands.

On November 5, 1870, he was appointed professor of criminal law, criminal procedural law, the encyclopedia and methodology of law at the University of Leiden by royal resolution. He took on this task on March 18, 1871 with the inaugural address De Methode der wetenschap van het strafrecht (freely translated into German: The method of the science of criminal law, Leiden 1871). In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1878/79 . He put this task down with the speech De eenheid der wetenschap en hetrecht van het ideaal (freely translated into German: The unity of science and the law of the ideal, Leiden 1879). This was also the last official act as a university professor, because on August 18, 1879 he was appointed Minister of Justice in the Van Lynden van Sandenburg cabinet , which began its work in the summer of 1879. Therefore, on September 6, 1879, he asked to be released from his university teaching position and was retired from his professorship on October 20 of the same year.

As Minister of Justice in 1880 he ordered the revision of the civil code of the Netherlands and in 1881 protested against the reintroduction of the death penalty when the penal code was drafted. In addition, he sent a law in 1880, which should protect brand names. He also changed the copyright law in 1881, which dates back to 1817. Among other things, it stipulated that the copyright was valid for fifty years and that this could extend to 30 years after the author's death. He was also involved in the introduction of a law on the sale of alcohol.

Since the cabinet dissolved in April 1883, he resigned as Minister of Justice on April 23, 1883. The King then made him an honorary Minister of State and he became the curator of the high school in The Hague. In the summer of 1883 his health deteriorated. So he went to Wiesbaden, where the disease could not be cured. After he had been appointed to the High Council of the Netherlands on May 29, 1885 , he returned to the Netherlands. However, his health deteriorated to such an extent that he could no longer fill the office he had been assigned and died.

He had received a great deal of recognition in the course of his life. In 1865 he was accepted as a member of the Society of Dutch Literature in Leiden, on April 25, 1881 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam , member of the Association of Statistics of the Netherlands, member of the Historical Society in Utrecht the Dutch Society of Science and Liberal Arts in Haarlem and many other domestic and foreign learned societies. He was awarded the Knight Order on February 8, 1880, and the Commander of the Dutch Lion on February 6, 1881 . He became a bearer of the Franz-Joseph Order and the Russian Order of St. Anne .

family

Elizabeth Anna Louise Modderman (born de Vos dead Nederveen Cappel)

Modderman married on August 31, 1864 in The Hague Elizabeth Anna Louise de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel (born November 8, 1844 in Utrecht, † July 31, 1905 in The Hague), the daughter of Cornelis Lodewijk de Vos (born June 16, 1804 in Utrecht; † March 13, 1885 in Scheveningen) and his wife Anna Elisabeth Maria Graevestein (born July 8, 1812 in Culemborg; † January 11, 1883 in Scheveningen). Children were born from marriage. We know of these:

Hendrik Jacob Hermen Modderman (born June 10, 1865 in Amsterdam)
Cornelis Lodewijk Modderman (born October 25, 1866 in Amsterdam, † March 17, 1945 in Oegstgeest)
Stillborn daughter (* & † September 23, 1868 in Amsterdam)
Hendrik Adriaan Ewoud Modderman (born September 19, 1870 in Amsterdam; † November 4, 1937 there) was a judge in Amsterdam
Anna Elisabeth Maria Modderman (born July 16, 1872 in Leiden, † November 29, 1932 in Utrecht) married. on November 9, 1901 in The Hague with the engineer and director of the foundry in Alkmaar Hendrik Adriaan Ewoud de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel (born September 20, 1875 in Doesburg, † September 21, 1946 in The Hague)
Ewoud Anthony Jacob Herman Modderman (born February 10, 1874 in Leiden, † September 22, 1908 in Delft) married. on April 3, 1903 in The Hague with Anna Maria Elisabeth van der Bilt (born November 20, 1877 in Kapelle)
Adriane Sibylla Catharina Modderman (born June 29, 1877 in Leiden, † December 25, 1930 in The Hague) married. on July 8, 1901 in The Hague with the merchant Jacobus Matthijs Nap (* July 10, 1872 in Gent, † March 9, 1945 in The Hague)
Johan Hendrik Adriaan Modderman (born December 12, 1880 in The Hague, † November 3, 1956 in Zeist) married. with Adelaïde Johanna Hermina Spandouw
Willem Jacob Modderman (born May 2, 1882 in The Hague, † July 7, 1936 in Leiden)

literature

CJ Sickesz: Levens report by Mr. AEJ Modderman. In: Handelingen der algemeene vergadering van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, on June 16, 1887, in het gebouw van de Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen. EJ Brill, Leiden 1887, pp. 56–93, ( online )

JM van Bemmelen: MODDERMAN (Antony Ewoud Jan) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 8. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 1158 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1930, reprint unchanged).

De Nederlandsche Leeuw. 1999, vol. 116, p. 473

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personal data
SURNAME	Modderman, Anthony Ewoud Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Modderman, Antonie Ewoud Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch legal scholar and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Winschoten
DATE OF DEATH	August 7, 1885
Place of death	The hague