Petrus de Greve

Petrus de Greve (born August 25, 1621 in Arnhem , † late 1677 in Nijmegen ) was a Dutch legal scholar.

Life

Greve came from a well respected family. After his father's death, his mother moved to Harderwijk, where he initially attended Latin school. At the Illustre grammar school he continued his training in Harderwijk, where he was instructed in law by the lawyers Willem Cup (1604–1667) and Antonius Matthaeus II (1601–1654) . On June 20, 1641 he went to Franeker University with a scholarship , where he attended the lectures of Cornelius van Pijnacker (1570-1645) and Johannes Jacobus Wissenbach (1607-1665). Both had great expectations of him. The former advised him in 1644 to obtain a doctorate in law and then to take up a professorship.

But after Greve had worked as a lawyer in Leeuwarden for a while, he was recommended by Wissenbach as an associate professor of law at the newly founded University of Harderwijk , which position he was able to take up on April 12, 1648. There he established himself as an excellent expert on Roman law , was promoted to full professor and in 1654 was rector of the Alma Mater . In 1655 he went to the newly founded Illustrious Academie in Nijmegen as a legal scholar , as he was offered a higher salary here. Many students followed him. Among his students was Gerhard Noodt (1647–1725), who later became his colleague and gave him the funeral sermon . He turned down appointments at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Groningen . His body was buried in St. Stephen's Church.

Works

• Exercitationes ad Pandectarum loca difficiliora. Harderwijk 1653, Nijmwegen1660, 1663
• Collegium juridicum publicum ad Pandectarum loca difficiliora. Harderwijk 1653
• Dissertationes anniversarioe de domino. Nijmwegen 1659
• Dissertationes ad Institutionem Imperialium loca difficiliora. Nijmwegen 1668

literature

• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden, bevattende levensbeschrijvingen van zoodanige people, who zich op eenigerlei wijze in ons vaderland vermaard made. Verlag JJ Van Brederode, Haarlem, 1862, vol. 7, p. 402, ( online )
• van Kuyk: Greve, Petrus de . In: Petrus Johannes Blok, Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen: Nieuw Nederlands Biografisch Woordenboek. (NNBW) Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (ING), AW Sijthoff, Leiden, 1918, vol. 3, col. 499, (Dutch)
• Greve, Petrus de. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 11, Leipzig 1735, column 869.
• Er - Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Verlag Friedrich August Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1871, 1st section, vol. 90, p. 356, ( online )