Joachim Andreae

Joachim Andreae , also von Andrée , (* around 1586 in Stralsund ; † May 2, 1655 ) was a Dutch politician, diplomat and judge.

Life

Joachim Andreae came from Pomerania . In August 1607 he enrolled at the University of Leiden to study law, in September 1607 at the University of Franeker in Friesland and in October 1608 again in Leiden. The place and time of his doctorate are not known. After his return to Franeker from Leiden he was allowed to hold private disputations with the consent of the university senate. Mostly foreigners appeared as defenders. The traditional disputes from the years 1609 and 1610 dealt mainly with feudal law . On May 17, 1613, he was appointed Professor of Ethics and Physics to succeed Henricus Veno. On June 24, 1615 he received the chair of law. In 1616 he was rector of the university.

On July 8, 1620 he became a judge at the High Council of Friesland . In 1634 he was a member of a commission sent by the governor and the estates of Friesland to The Hague to settle existing disputes between the Frisian governor Heinrich Casimir I and the governor of the Netherlands Friedrich Heinrich von Orange . In 1635 he accompanied Rochus van den Honert, first councilor of the High Council, and the Amsterdam mayor Andries Bicker as ambassador to Poland , Sweden and Denmark . They achieved an extension of the expiring armistice between Poland and Sweden. In 1644/1645 he was again with Andries Bicker and Jacob de Witt as ambassador for negotiations in Sweden and Denmark. Supported by a large fleet under Witte de With , the delegation of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces in Kristianopel was able to secure peace between Denmark and Sweden and also negotiate favorable trade and customs conditions in the Baltic Sea region for the Dutch .

After more than 25 years of service, temporarily as presiding judge, he resigned from the High Council in 1646 in favor of his son Henning George and became curator of the University of Franeker. As President of the States General , he signed the ratification document for the Peace of Munster in 1648 . In 1651 he was a member and in April of the same year chairman of the Great Assembly.

He was given the title of knight (Ridder).

In Friesland he had great influence based on both his talents and his two marriages. Due to his marriage to Ansck van Burmania, a daughter of Poppe van Burmania, he was on an equal footing with the native Frisians and was thus able to receive a seat on the High Council. After her death he married Sophia Vervou († 1671), widow of Wytse van Gammingha, heir to Ameland.

literature

• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Joachim Andreae. In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland . Volume 1, van Brederode, Haarlem 1852.
• van Kuyk: Andreae, Joachim . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 1. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 130–131 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1911, reprinted unchanged).