Johannes Theodoor Buys

Johannes Theodoor Buys

Johannes Theodoor Buys also: Johan Theodoor Buys, Johan Theodor Buijs, (born January 26, 1828 in Amsterdam , † May 14, 1893 in Leiden ) was a Dutch legal scholar and politician.

Life

The son of the stockbroker Philippus Buys (born May 30, 1790 in Amsterdam, † October 9, 1852 in Kleve) and Elisabeth Antoinetta de Salve de Bruneton (born December 27, 1794 in Leiden, † February 21, 1855 in Kleve) grew up in wealthy middle-class families on Herengracht . On October 2, 1845, he began studying law at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam . At first he found playing cards more fun than studying. When his father lost all of his fortune in 1847, that changed. With the help of a few friends and as a reporter at the Amsterdam Courant, he was able to finance and continue his studies. On January 15, 1846, he enrolled at the University of Leiden , where he took a preliminary math exam. On November 20, 1848, he enrolled in the matriculation of the University of Utrecht , where he passed his candidate exam as a lawyer, and after re-enrolling on November 8, 1849, he received his doctorate on April 17, 1850 with a thesis on freedom the press under the title De jure cogitata conmmunicandi ex juris communis principiis regendo to the Doctor of Laws .

With his liberal view of freedom, he was an opponent of the revolution of 1848/1849 . After a short time as a lawyer in Amsterdam, he became a member of the provincial government of North Holland in Haarlem on July 1, 1851. In 1857 he became secretary of the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland water authority. On May 9, 1862 he was appointed professor of law and political science at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam, which task he took up on October 13, 1862 with the speech Het wezen van den constitutioneelen regeeringsvorm . On February 15, 1864 he became a member of the Council of State in extraordinary service. On March 25, 1864 he was appointed professor of constitutional law at the University of Leiden, which office he took on on June 25, 1864 with the inaugural speech Het moderne Staatbegrip . He became a member of the Society of Dutch Literature in Leiden, on May 5, 1867 a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam, and on May 12, 1874 became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion .

He also took part in the organizational questions of the Leiden University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1875/76 . He resigned this task with the speech De zelfstandigheid van het staatsrecht . In 1867 he was accepted into the Leiden City Council and in 1871 he became a member of the provincial states of South Holland for the constituency of Leiden. Buys was editor-in-chief of the magazine Het Zondagblad in 1860 , co-author of the scientific journal De Gids in 1864, editor at Wetenschappelijke Bladen from 1853 to 1864 and author in Sociaal Weekblad in 1887 . He was also a member of the State Commission for Administrative Law and belonged to the State Commission for Constitutional Reforms from 1883 to 1886 as Vice President. After his death, his body was buried on May 18, 1893 in Warmond.

Buys married on June 8, 1859 in Oegstgeest with Wilhelmine Jeanette Maria Arntzenius (born August 26, 1832 in The Hague; † July 21, 1924 in Leiden), the daughter of the Advocate General at the High Court of Justice Pieter Nicolaas Arntzenius (born July 10, 1802 in Amsterdam † June 20, 1857 in The Hague) and his wife, Johanna Hendrieka van der Meersch (born February 7, 1810 in The Hague, † December 8, 1896 ibid) on April 15, 1830. The marriage remained childless.

Works

• De jure cogitata conmmunicandi ex juris communis principiis regendo. Amsterdam 1850
• De verordeningen op veer- en beurtschepen. Haarlem 1853
• Voorlezingen over circulation banks. Haarlem 1856 ( online )
• Nederlandsche staatsschuld sedert 1814. Leiden 1856, Haarlem 1857 ( online ), Haarlem 1863
• The people of onzen tijd. Bijdragen tot de kennis van den toestand of the previous states in de 2e help van de 19e eeuw. België, Groot-Brittannië. Haarlem 1858
• De mortgage bank, hair wezen en hare waarde. Haarlem 1861 ( online )
• Het wezen van den constitutioneelen regeeringsvorm. Haarlem 1862
• Het modern state concept. Amsterdam 1864
• Right the Tweede Kamer, een woord aan de kiezers. Haarlem 1866
• Speech bij de afkondiging van het Senaatsbesluit omtrent het doctoraat honoris causa aan Nederlanders en vreemdelingen. Leiden 1875
• De zelfstandigheid van het staatsrecht. Amsterdam 1876
• De Grondwet, toelichting en critiek. Arnhem 1883-1888, 3rd vol.
• Het eeuwfeest the Mij. 'Tot Nut van' t Algemeen '. Leiden 1885
• The regulation of administrative legal practice. Haarlem 1891
• Studiën about civic studies and constitutional law. 1894-1895, 2nd vol.

literature

• HPG Quack: Levens report JT Buys. in: Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen. 1893, Amsterdam, pp. 11–63 ( Online PDF )
• R. Macalester Loup: Levensbericht van Johan Theodoor Buys. In: Handelingen en mededeelingen van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, over het jaar 1893-1894. EJ Brill, Leiden 1894, pp. 173-217, ( online )
• HF Wijnman: BUYS (Johannes Theodoor) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 10. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 162–166 (Dutch, 10 & page = 88 & view = imagePane knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1937, reprinted unchanged).
• R. van Boeval Faure: Johan Theodoor Buys Met Zijne Leerlingen Herdacht. EJ Brill, Leiden, 1893

Web links

• Record in the album Academicum Amsterdam
• Record in the Parliamentary Documentation Center of the University of Leiden
• Record at the digital library of Dutch literature (DBNL)