Gérard Wiarda
Gérard Wiarda (born September 4, 1906 in Amsterdam , † June 12, 1988 in The Hague ), also Gerardus Johannes Wiarda , was a Dutch legal scholar .
Life
Gérard Wiarda was born in Amsterdam in 1906 , the son of Jan Wiarda , a member of the High Council of the Netherlands , and his wife Carolina Georgina Louise Lucks. From 1925 to 1929 he studied law at the University of Amsterdam , then practiced as a lawyer in Rotterdam . In 1932 he made a marriage with Alexandra Moltzer.
After working as a lawyer, he sat as a substitute judge and judge in the District Court of Amsterdam. The University of Utrecht appointed him professor of administrative law in 1947 , but his involvement in academic teaching ended three years later when he was appointed judge at the High Council of the Netherlands, where he worked until 1976. In 1968 he was elected Vice President and in 1972 President.
In September 1966 Wiarda succeeded Frederik Mari Baron van Asbeck at the European Court of Human Rights . Re-elected twice in 1968 and 1977, he became Vice-President in 1977 and, four years later, became the sixth President of the Court. He resigned in May 1985 and resigned from the ECHR that same year. The last years of his life were marked by declining health. At the age of 81 he died in The Hague.
From 1958 to 1976 he was President of the Dutch Association for Administrative Law and since 1964 a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . The GJ Wiarda Institute was founded in 1998 at the University of Utrecht, where he once worked. His influential work "Drie typen van rechtsvinding" (German "The three types of legal finding") is now counted among the classics of Dutch legal literature.
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- Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights . Volume 9, 1966. p. 54. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
- Rolv Ryssdal : The European Court of Human Rights and Gérard Wiarda . In: Franz Matscher / Herbert Petzold (eds.): Protecting Human Rights: The European Dimension - Studies in honor of Gérard J. Wiarda . Heymann Verlag, Cologne [ua] 1988, pp. 1-6.
- Obituary in the New York Times on June 14, 1988
- GJW Steenhoff / RJQ Klomp: GJ Wiarda - Schets van leven en werk . Wiarda Instituut Utrecht, 1998.
- Family tree of the Dutch branch of the Wiarda family
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiarda, Gérard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wiarda, Gerard; Wiarda, Gerardus Johannes; Wiarda, Gerardus; Wiarda, GJ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch legal scholar, judge at the High Council of the Netherlands and at the European Court of Human Rights |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th September 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1988 |
| Place of death | The Hague , Netherlands |