Dionysius Godefridus van der Keessel

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Dionysius Godefridus van der Keessel

Dionysius Godefridus van der Keessel (born September 22, 1738 in Deventer , † August 7, 1816 in Leiden ) was a Dutch legal scholar.

Life

The son of pastor Dionysius van der Keessel (1700–1755) and his wife Johanna Wilhelmina Cabeljauw († March 23, 1775 in The Hague), had received the first lessons in his place of birth. On August 21, 1753 he found school at the Illustren in his hometown and was enrolled in the matriculation of the University of Leiden on May 1, 1756 together with his brother Samuel Rudolphus van der Keessel . On October 23, 1761 he received his doctorate in law with the treatise de Usucapione partus et fetus rei furtivae (Leiden 1761). He then worked as a lawyer in The Hague . His appointment as professor of Roman law at the Imperial University of Groningen took place in 1762, he took up this position with the speech An capita illa Juris Romani, quae in usu hodie non esse dicuntur, in academiis doceri expediat (Groningen 1762).

In Groningen he had given lectures on the institutes and Pandekten, also carried out research on Dutch everyday law and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1768/69. In the following year, on October 10, 1770, he was appointed professor of Roman and civil law at the University of Leiden , which he took up on April 12, 1771 with the speech de Legislatorum Belgarum in recipiendo jure Romano prudentia . Here he had also taught everyday Dutch law from June 12, 1790, for which he was transferred to the additional chair on September 13, 1799, which chair, however, was dissolved again in 1808. In Leiden he was also rector of the college in 1773/74, 1785/86 and 1791/92, which offices he held with the speeches de Amore patriae, in juventute Belgica exitando prudenterque dirigendo; de Aequitate judicantium, optimo turbatae reipublicae remedio and de Advocato Christiano resigned.

Van der Keessel had achieved some fame as a lawyer in his day and he taught the Hereditary Prince Wilhelm I , by whom he was honored as a Knight of the Dutch Lion . Hendrik Willem Tydeman (1778–1863) and Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist (1775–1820) were his most important students. His most important main work was the lecture edition Theses Selectae Juris Hollandici et Zelandici, in which he makes statements on Hugo Grotius, which reflect the state of Dutch law at that time. Because of its importance for South Africa, other lectures also appeared in print in the 20th century. On October 16, 1815, he retired from his professorship and spent the last year of his life at his place of work. He left his extensive book collection to the university library in Leiden.

On July 27, 1772 he married Catharina Adriana Bodel († 1811), the marriage remained childless.

Works

  • Orationes variae. Leiden 1770–1792, 6th parts
  • Narratio de rebus a se et a facultate juridica gestis circa nuper evulgatam dissertationem JJTh. Duval. Leiden 1789
  • Oratio de Studio juris civilis ad bonos mores formandos et virtutem colendam aptissimo. Leiden 1790
  • Theses Selectae Juris Hollandici et Zelandici, ad supplendam Hugonis Grotii Introductionem ad Jurisprudentiam Hollandicam, et definiendas celebriores Juris Hollandici controversias. Leiden 1800, in English under the title Select Theses on the laws of Holland and Zeeland, en thans. Amsterdam 1860

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JC van Slee: De Illustre School te Deventer. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1916, p. 249
  2. ^ PC Molhuysen: Album Promotorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae 1575-1812. 's-Gravenhage 1913-1924, p. 303
  3. ↑ Album Scholasticum Academiae lugduno-batavae 1575-1940. P. 84
personal data
SURNAME Keessel, Dionysius Godefridus van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Deventer
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1816
Place of death Suffer