Bavius ​​Voorda

Bavius ​​Voorda

Bavius ​​Voorda (born July 1, 1729 in Franeker , † July 9, 1799 in Leiden ) was a Dutch legal scholar.

Life

Bavius ​​Voorda was the son of the legal scholar Jacobus Voorda . He had received his first lessons from his father and began studying at Utrecht University in 1746. After being accepted into the candidate of law here on June 16, 1750, he moved to the University of Leiden, where he enrolled on June 26, 1750. In Leiden he followed the lectures of Tiberius Hemsterhuis , Johann Conrad Rücker and Andreas Weiß for a year . He returned to Utrecht, where he received his doctorate in law on September 30, 1751 on the subject of de Vadimonio . Then he went to Leeuwarden as a lawyerand was appointed professor of law at the University of Franeker on October 2, 1755 with an annual salary of 1000 guilders . He took this office on March 10, 1756 with the unprinted speech de Vinculo, quod inter theoreticum et practicum juris studium intercedit non solvendo .

His lectures dealt with the institutes and pandects. Here he also began to work on his main work, which was entitled Thesium controversarum juxta seriem Digestorum Decasdes octo et viginti. A titulo ultimo Libri XXII, usque ad finem Libri XXVII; acc. D. ad l. 7 § 1 D. solute. Matrim. - nec non Lectionum Tullianearum liber singularis collected in 1796, published in Leiden. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the educational institution and was rector of the Frisian university in 1761/62. He put this task down with the speech de arte legislatoria ex tabulis Romanorum decemviralibus comparanda (Franeker 1763). On March 26, 1765 he was appointed to the legal chair of Roman and current civil law at the University of Leiden. He took on this task on June 24, 1765 with the speech qua docetur: plus esse praesidii civitatibus in bonis Ictis quam in ipsis Legibus .

Here, too, he participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1769/70 and 1781/82 . At the resignation of the rectorate he gave the speeches Papinianus seu optimi Icti et viri forma in Aemilio Papiniano spectata (1770) and de sapientia regis quondam Hebraeorum sapientissimi juridica (1782). Since he refused to take the oath to the new form of government when the Batavian Republic was in existence , and published the text Aenmerkingen op zommigen van de Overysselsche steede-bezwaaren, byzonder op die van Zwolle, mitsgaders op het raport daarop uituit (1786) under the pseudonym VA Hollandus he became a victim of the political conditions at the time and was dismissed from his employment without a salary.

Later, on January 10, 1790, he was granted a pension of 1,800 guilders, based on a decision by the States of Holland. During that time he stayed in Leiden, where he continued his studies and was enrolled on April 12, 1790 on an honorary basis in the college's registry. After the political situation had changed in 1795, he was reinstated in his chair on February 21 of that year and became a judge at the court of Holland. To take up his chair again, he gave the sharp speech de Libertate sentiendi dicendique Ictis propria et in Papiniano spectata on May 7, 1795 . In a later legal opinion, he and Johann Valckenaer found that the governor had been guilty of high treason.

literature

• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem 1876, vol. 19, p. 346, ( online , Dutch)
• J. van Kuyk: VOORDA (Bavius) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 3. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 1336–1338 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1914, reprint unchanged).
• WBS Boeles: Frieslands Hoogeschool en het Rijks Athenaeum te Franeker. A. Meijer, Leeuwarden, 1889, 2nd volume, 2nd issue, p. 528
• L. van Poelgeest: Mr. Bavius ​​Voorda (1729-1799) a legal frieze jurist aan de Leidse Academie. In: Jaarboekje voor geschiedenis en oudheidkunde van Leiden en Omstreken. Leiden, 1987, pp. 96–123 ( Online ; PDF; 6.5 MB)