Johan de Wal

Johan de Wal also: Jan de Wal (born April 3, 1816 in Franeker , † February 8, 1892 in Arnhem ) was a Dutch criminal lawyer and legal historian.

Life

Johan was the son of the law professor at the University of Groningen Gabinus de Wal (1785-1833) and his wife Jetske Meinardina Coulon (born December 5, 1795 in Leeuwarden, † April 11, 1830 in Groningen), daughter of Julius Vitringa Coulon and his wife Tetje Jongsma. From 1832 he studied at the University of Groningen and received his doctorate there on March 20, 1839 with the treatise Disquisitio historica de juris civilis docenti discendique via apud Romanos, pars prior argumenti explicationem contenens usque ad liberae reipublicae interitum . He then became a lawyer in Assen and adjunct of the commission of the provincial governorate of Drenthe . From 1841 he worked as a substitute public prosecutor in Winschoten , in the same position in 1843 in Leiden , in 1845 he became a tax attorney at the high military court in Utrecht and in 1848 general secretary for internal affairs.

On July 28, 1848, he was appointed professor of law at the University of Leiden by royal resolution . His teaching assignment included the encyclopedia and methodology of law, the origin and development of law among Germanic peoples, including the history of Dutch law. On October 28, 1848, he gave his introductory speech in Leiden and, as a professor, also took part in the university's organizational tasks. He was Rector of the Alma Mater in 1850/51 and 1860/61 . De Wal was chairman of the State Commission on the Code of Criminal Law of the Netherlands from 1870 to 1886 and chairman of the Society of Dutch Literature in Leiden from 1858 to 1862. On March 24, 1855 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . He also became a member of many other learned societies.

He also became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion . He has also appeared as an author in the " Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ". His importance lies primarily in the field of the development of Dutch criminal law and as an author in the field of historical legal issues. On November 5, 1870, he was retired by royal resolution and resigned from his professorship on January 1, 1871. On February 28, 1871, he was appointed to the high council of the Netherlands . In 1877 its extensive library was bought by the royal library. He spent the last years of his life in Arnhem, where he finally died.

Johan de Wal met on June 10, 1841 in Assen with Joanna Petronella Servatius (born August 29, 1820 in Zuidlaren, † December 27, 1891 in Arnhem), daughter of the tax inspector and mayor Nicolaas Gerard Servatius (born April 28, 1793 in Coevorden ; † May 15, 1870 in Assen) and his wife Charlotta Gerardina van Swinderen (born March 26, 1798 in Paterswolde; † June 26, 1858 in Leiden), married.

Works (selection)

Peter de Groote: Treurspel. Groningen 1836 ( online )
Vrouwelijk leven. Uitgegeven ten voordeele the noodlijdenden in the city of Groningen. 1838
Disquisitio historica de juris civilis docenti discendique via apud Romanos, pars prior argumenti explicationem contenens usque ad liberae reipublicae interitum. Groningen 1839 ( online )
Aanteekeningen en bedenkingen op het ontwerp van een Wetboek van Strafregt voor het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. Assen 1839, 1st volume, ( online ), Groningen 1842, 2nd volume ( online )
The thought of E. Roelants. 1839 ( online )
Bijdragen tot de divorced en oudheden van Drenthe. Groningen 1842 ( online )
De Moedergodinnen: an oudheid-knowledgeable-mythological negotiation. Leiden 1846 ( online )
Over de beoefening der nederlandsche mythologie, naar aanleiding der jongste tot dat onderwerp betrekkelijke writings. Utrecht 1847 ( online )
Mythologiae septentrionalis monumenta epigraphica latina. Utrecht 1847 ( online )
Lex Frisionum, Lex Angliorum et Werinorum. Amsterdam and Leiden, 1850 ( online )
De Deensche veldoverste Hendrik Ruse, born in Drenthenaar. 1850 ( online )
Oratio de detrimento, quod neglectum historicum juris nostril stadium patriae Disciplinaeque Adulit. 1851 ( online , Rector's speech)
Orationes academicae de historico Juris Neerlandii studio. Leiden and Amsterdam 1852 ( online )
Oratio de muneris rectoris magnifici origine, eiusque creandi ratione diversis temporibus ac Locis Diversa. Leiden 1861 ( online , Rector's speech)
Het Nederlandsche commercial rain. 1861-1869, 3rd vol.
Nederlanders, Studenten te Heidelberg en te Geneve, broadcast het Begin der Kerkhervorming. Leiden 1865
Contributions to the literary history of the civil process. Erlangen 1866 ( online )
Misstelling and manufacturing. Leiden 1867 ( online )
De modus legendi abbreviaturas in utroque iure, oudste proeve eener Regtsencyclopedie uit de vijftiende Eeuw. Amsterdam 1868 ( online )

literature

Peter Johannes van Koppen, Jan ten Kate: De Hoge Raad in persoon. Benoemingen in de Hoge Raad der Nederlanden 1838-2002. Kluwer, Deventer, 2003, p. 182
Didericus Gijsbertus van Epen: Nederland's patriciaat. Centraal bureau voor genealogie en heraldiek, Den Haag, 1952, vol. 38, p. 349
CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugduno-batave. Brill Archive, Leiden, 1941, p. 130
De Nederlandsche spectator. DA Thieme, 1892 (February 13)
Antony Winkler Prins: Geïllustreerde encyclopædie, woordenboek voor wetenschap en kunst, beschaving en nijverheid. CL Brinkman, Amsterdam, 1881, vol. 14, p. 381

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Wal, Johan de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wal, Jan de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch criminal lawyer and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH	Franeker
DATE OF DEATH	February 8, 1892
Place of death	Arnhem