Jan Volkert Rijpperda Wierdsma
Jan Volkert Rijpperda Wierdsma also Jan Volker Rypperda Wierdsma (born January 8, 1904 in Nijmegen , † February 19, 1981 in Oegstgeest ) was a Dutch legal scholar.
Life
Jan Volkert was born the son of the doctor Arnold Rijpperda Wierdsma (born May 31, 1876 in Amsterdam; † May 15, 1922 in Nijmegen) and his wife Elisabeth Mees (born November 30, 1878 in Rotterdam; † July 11, 1964 in Bilthoven) . He studied law at the University of Leiden from September 20, 1922 to March 14, 1928 , was then effective at the Court of Gelderland and received his doctorate on July 2, 1937 in Leiden on the subject of Politie en justitie. Een studie over Hollandschen staatsbouw tijdens de Republiek (German: Politics and Justice. A study of the formation of the Dutch state at the time of the republic. ) Cum laude for Doctor of Laws. After the Second World War, in 1947 he became an advisory councilor in the general service of the Dutch Ministry of Reconstruction. On June 4, 1948, he was appointed to the professorship for constitutional law at the University of Leiden, which he took on on July 16, 1948 and on October 8 of the same year the inaugural speech De Grodwet in oonze tijd (German: The basic value in our time ) held.
In the academy year 1960/61 he became rector of the Alma Mater , for which he gave the rector's speech Dualisme in ons staatsbestel (German: dualism in our state ) on the 386th anniversary of the university's existence on February 8, 1961 . Rijpperda Wierdsma became a lecturer to the Dutch Princess Beatrix and was one of the witnesses at the marriage of Princess Margriet to Pieter van Vollenhoven (born April 30, 1939 in Schiedam). In 1966 he co-authored a new Dutch constitution, on March 1, 1967, he retired from his professorship and was subsequently a member of the Dutch State Council until February 1, 1979 . In 1961 he was appointed Commander of the House Order of Orange and in 1974 Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau .
Rijpperda Wierdsma married on April 15, 1930 in The Hague with Anna van Traa (born November 9, 1905 in Amersfoort, † August 6, 1991 in Oegstgeest), the daughter of the banker Adriaan van Traa (born December 4, 1876 in Rotterdam; † February 2, 1949 in Amsterdam) and his wife Cornelia de Ridder (born July 13, 1878 in Katwijk; † June 1, 1962 in Leiden). The marriage remained childless.
Works (selection)
- Politie en justitie. A study of Hollandschen staatsbouw tijdens de Republiek. Zwolle 1937
- De grondwet in onzen tijd. Leiden 1948
- Dualism in ons state orders. Leiden 1961
Web links
- Rijpperda Wierdsma in the Parliamentary Documentation Center of the University of Leiden
- Rijpperda Wierdsma in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
- Rijpperda Wierdsma at the Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rijpperda Wierdsma, Jan Volkert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rypperda Wierdsma, Jan Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nijmegen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th February 1981 |
| Place of death | Oegstgeest |