Hugo Krabbe

Hugo Krabbe

Hugo Krabbe (born February 3, 1857 in Leiden , † February 4, 1936 there ) was a Dutch constitutional lawyer.

Life

Hugo was the son of pastor Christiaan Krabbe (born October 24, 1807 in Voorburg; † August 21, 1886 in Leiden) and his second wife Maria Adriana Machteld Scholten, who was married on September 13, 1854 in Leiden (born December 10, 1816 in Vleuten; † May 17, 1905 in The Hague). He attended the higher middle school and the city ​​high school in Leiden . On September 29, 1874, he enrolled at the University of Leiden , where he completed a law degree. On July 2, 1883 he received his doctorate in Leiden with the thesis De burgerlijke staatsdienst in Nederland (German: The civil service in the Netherlands ) to the doctor of rights. Then worked as an employee from 1883 in the province of Gelderland and from 1886 in the province of Holland.

In 1888 he became an authorized signatory in the Dutch Ministry of the Interior, where he drafted a Dutch electoral law. On February 10, 1894, he received a full professorship for encyclopedia of law, constitutional and administrative law at the University of Groningen , which he took up with the introductory speech De werkkring van den Staat (German: The offices of the state ). On December 7, 1907, he was appointed professor of constitutional, administrative and international law at the University of Leiden, which he did on March 4, 1908, Professor Leiden with the introductory speech De idee der persoonlijkheid in de staatsleer (German: The idea of ​​personality in political science ).

He also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in the academy year 1923/24 , for which he gave the rector's speech De innerlijke waarde de wet (German: The inner value of the law ) on February 8, 1924 . Krabbe had mainly worked on theoretical issues of constitutional law and was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion . On May 25, 1927 Krabbe gave his farewell lecture and was retired on September 10, 1927 by royal resolution. Almost nine years later he died of a long illness.

Krabbe married on September 16, 1886 in Rotterdam with Adriana Petronella Anna Regina Tavenraat (born April 1, 1854 in Materborn / Germany; † December 21, 1942 in The Hague), the daughter of the landscape painter Johannes Tavenraat (born March 20, 1809 in Rotterdam; † April 2, 1881 ibid.) And his wife Anna Catharina van Dijck (* Meersel / Antwerp † April 15, 1855 in Cleve), who married on September 16, 1841 in Meersel / Belgium. The son Johannes Krabbe (* December 3, 1887 in Haarlem, † December 7, 1957 in Alkmaar) and the daughter Maria Johanna Krabbe (* May 8, 1889 in The Hague, † July 15, 1965 in The Hague) are from the marriage. .

Works (selection)

• De burgerlijke state service in Nederland. Leiden 1883
• Strafwetgevende bevoegdheid der gemeentebesturen. Haarlem 1886
• De werkkring van den Staat. Groningen 1894
• De werkzaamheid van Staat en gemeente ter Verbetering der Volkshuisvesting. Haarlem 1898
• Administrative legal practice. Groningen 1901
• De void of the legal union. 1906 also in German: The Doctrine of Legal Sovereignty; Contribution to the theory of the state. Groningen 1906 ( online )
• The idea of ​​legal personality in de Staatsleer. 1908
• Ongezonde lectuur. Groningen 1913
• De modern state idea. The Hague 1915 also in German: The modern state idea. Den Haag 1915 ( online ) and English: The Modern Idea of ​​the State. New York / London 1922 ( online )
• Het right-zag. Verdediging en toelichting. The Hague 1917
• De innerlijke waarheid der wet. The Hague 1924
• Staatsrechtelijke opstellen. The Hague 1927, 2nd vol.
• Critical representation of the doctrine of the state. The Hague, 1930

literature

• WM Peletier: Krabbe, Hugo (1857-1936). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. The Hague, 1979, vol. 1 ( online )
• How is dat Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1931, p. 142
• R. Kranenburg: Prof. Mr. H. Krabbe. In: Jaarboekje voor Geschiedenis en oudheidkunde van Leiden en Rijnland. PJ Mulder & Zoon, Leiden, 1937, Vol. 29, pp. LIV-LV
• R. Kranenburg: Hugo Krabbe (Leiden 3 February 1857 - Leiden 4 February 1936). In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, 1936-1937. EJ Brill, Leiden 1937, pp. 155–160 ( online )
• Prof. Mr. Hugo Krabbe †. In: Leidsch Dagblad. February 5, 1936, p. 1 ( online )
• Prof. Mr. H. Krabbe 70 years. In: Leidsch Dagblad. February 2, 1927, p. 1 ( online )

Web links

• Krabbe entry in the professorial catalog of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
• Krabbe entry in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
• Crab entry at the Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL)