Johann Jacob Vitriarius

Johann Jacob Vitriarius

Johann Jacob Vitriarius (also: Joannes Jacobus Vitriarii , Johanne Jacobo Vitriario ; born June 8, 1679 in Geneva , † December 12, 1745 in Leiden ) was a Swiss legal scholar and author of authoritative legal works.

Life

Johann Jacob Vitriarius was the son of Philipp Reinhard Vitriarius (1647-1720), a legal scholar who had been active at the University of Geneva and the University of Leiden . In Leiden, when he was eleven, he was deposited in the register of the university on September 23, 1690. Under his father he completed a law degree. In 1706 he became professor of constitutional, natural and international law at the University of Heidelberg . On June 4, 1708 he was appointed professor of civil law at the University of Utrecht . He took office on September 17, 1708 with the speech De usu juris publici universalis . Here he also took part in the organizational tasks of the academy and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1714/15 . In 1719 he was appointed to succeed his father as professor for public law at the University of Leiden. He entered this office on January 15, 1720 with the speech de Juris naturae necessitate et utilitate . In 1721/22 and 1737/38 he was also rector of the Alma Mater in Leiden .

With Vitriarius in Leiden a. a. Paul Joseph Riegger (1705–1775), Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) and Sigmund von Haimhausen (1708–1793).

In 1743, his colleagues dedicated the coin “Justitia in nummis” to him.

At the negotiations for the Peace of Utrecht from 1712 to 1713 he was the recorder.

Fonts

• Oratio funebris in obitum Aatonii Shcultingii , Halae Magdeburgicae, 1734
• Annotati ad Grotii de jure belli ac pacis libros tres , 1724
• Annotata ad Sam. Stryckii examen juris feudalis. XVIII century , 1724
• Notes on Roman Law , Alexander Boswell, 1724
• Observationes in Hugonem Grotium de Jure Belli ac Pacis. 1728-29 , Alexander Boswell, 1724
• Institutiones Juris Naturae et Gentium ad Methodum Hugonis Grotii. , Samuelem Luchtmans Leiden 1734, together with Philippus Reinhardus Vitriarius, Johann Franz Buddeus

literature

• Side entry with his father in

Ferdinand Frensdorff:  Vitriarius, Philipp Reinhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 82.

• Antonii Schultingii: commentationes academicae, quibus selectissimae junis materiae pertractantur; accedit Joann. Jacob. Vitriarii oratio funebris in obitum Schultingii, Halae Magdeburgicae, 1770
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1751, Vol. 4, Sp. 1654
• Vitriarius, Johann Jacob. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 49, Leipzig 1746, column 113.
• van Kuyk: VITRIARIUS (Johannes Jacobus) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 3. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 1316 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1914, reprint unchanged).
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, vol. 19, p. 260, ( online , Dutch)

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Jacob Vitriarius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Evidence from "Berlin State Library"
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Reference to "Library University of Glasgow"
3. ↑ Proof ( Memento from October 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) at "Lawbooks Exchange" (English)