Johann Ortwin Westenberg

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Johann Ortwin Westenberg

Johann Ortwin Westenberg (also: Wessenberg ; * May 28, 1667 in Neuenhaus ; † June 30, 1737 in Leiden ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

The son of the personal physician of Count von Bentheim , Johann Ortwin Westenberg (1628–1675), and his wife Gertrud von Gesseler entered the Arnoldinum high school in Steinfurt at the age of 14 . In 1682 he began to study theology at the University of Franeker and trained with Jacob Perizonius in the Latin language and in classical studies. It is possible that he also attended the lectures of Campegius Vitringa the Elder here . However, he later gave up studying theology in favor of studying law.

For health reasons, Westerberg had to finish his studies in Franeker. After a short stay in his home country, he returned to the University of Harderwijk in 1684 , where he completed a legal education with his uncle Jodokus von Gesseler (-1688). After a short stay in 1686 at the University of Groningen , he received his doctorate in Harderwijk in 1687 with the dissertation De usuris as a doctor of law and in 1688 he became a high school professor of the Pandekten at the Arnoldinum high school in Steinfurt. After a while he also became professor of history and rhetoric and advice to the later Count of Bentheim.

At the end of 1694 he was appointed professor of law at Haderwijk University. He took up this post after moving on March 8, 1695. He wrote his most important works in Haderwijk. The most important from that period is the textbook of the Institutes Principia juris, secundum ordinem Institutionum imp. Justiniani in usum auditorium vulgata , which was used at Dutch universities for over 100 years. In Haderwijk he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was Rector of the Alma Mater five times in 1696/97, 1699/1700, 1704/05, 1709/10 and 1714/15.

In 1716 he moved to the University of Franeker as Professor of Law and in 1723 as Professor of Roman and Civil Law at the University of Leiden . In Franeker he participated in the organizational tasks of the universities as rector in 1721/22 and in Leiden in 1725/26 and 1733/34. He eventually died, plagued by scurvy, as a result of constant overload.

family

In Veldhausen , on August 5, 1697, Westenberg married his cousin Matilde von Gesseler (1669–1698), the daughter of his uncle Hermann von Gessler and his wife Anna Gertrud Kloppenburg. His second marriage was in 1710 with Gertrud de Wit (born January 7, 1674 in Wesel; † July 12, 1734 in Leiden). The first marriage was childless. The twin sisters Gertrud Westenberg and Maria Magaretha Westenberg as well as the son Jan Gerhard Westenberg came from the second marriage, but they all died young.

Works

  • Disputatio inaug. de usuris. Herderwijk 1607
  • Principia Juris, sec. Ordinem Institutionum caet. Amsterdam 1699, Harderwijk 1704, Franeker 1739, Leiden 1745, 1764
  • Principia Juris, sec. Ordinem Digestorum, Pandectarum. Harderwijk 1712, Leiden 1732, Amsterdam 1739, Leiden 1745, 1764, Haderwijk 1745, 1823, 1842
  • De Causis obligationum liber singularis, s. Dissertations novem. Harderwijk 1704
  • Diss. De emphiteusi.
  • Diss. De querela inofficiosi testamenti. Steinfurt 1693
  • Diss. De fructuum perception.
  • Diss. De confuetudine. Steinfurt 1694
  • Diss. Foro competente.
  • De portione legitima, parensibus, liberis et fratribus relinquenda, dissertationes.
  • Oratio de jurisprudential Pauli Apostoli. Bayreuth 1738
  • Divus Marcus seu Dissertationes ad M. Aurel. Antonini Imp. Constitutiones. Leiden 1736 and in the Leipziger Gelehrten Zeitung 1736, p. 770 f.
  • De jurisprudentia Q Scaevolae. Leiden 1734

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personal data
SURNAME Westenberg, Johann Ortwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wessenberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1667
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenhaus
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1737
Place of death Suffer