Seerp Gratama

Seerp Gratama

Seerp Gratama (born October 27, 1757 in Harlingen , † September 19, 1837 in Groningen ) was a Dutch legal scholar .

Life

The son of Tjepke Gratama and Rinske Donker received his first training at the Latin school in his hometown and then at the Athenaeum in Deventer . He then completed a law degree at the University of Franeker , received his doctorate in law in 1783 and then worked as a lawyer in his hometown, where he also worked as a businessman. During the revolutionary unrest he was an officer in the armed civil guard. During this time some of his writings were published.

This brought him in 1797 an appointment as professor of Roman law at the University of Harderwijk , where he was also rector of the Alma Mater in 1798/1799 . In 1801 he went to the University of Groningen as a professor of natural and international law . He took office on September 24, 1801 with the speech Oratio qua docetur: cum homines, tum etiam populos ad justitiam esse natos . Later he also took over the professorship for criminal law, and from 1821 he taught the Code Napoléon . In 1805 and 1816 he was rector of the Groningen University, and in 1827 he retired.

Works

• Betoog van den gelukkigen toestand van Vriesland, afgescheiden van de tegenwoordige verdeeldheden, met bedenkingen over de vaderlandsliefde, over het geluk en het volksgeluk. Harlem 1795
• Onderzoek naar de geestelijke goederen in Friesland. Harlem 1796
• De indole, fontibus et remediis superstitionis; met goud bekroond door de bezorgers van het Stolpiaansch legaat en in deszelfs negotiating opgenomen. Leiden 1796 also appeared in Dutch under the title: Zedekundige verhandeling over de natuur en de oorzaken des bijgeloofs. Leiden 1796
• Beschouwing van de huisselijke slavernij bij de Romeinen. Groningen 1796
• Oratio de causis malorum, quae jurisprudentia naturalis, ejusque doctores fuerunt perpessi. Groningen 1806
• Oratio de honesta aemulatione inter homines, doctos in primis, et doctorum hominum corpora, excitanda, ad commune humanitatis civitatisque bonum. 1806
• Regtsgeleerd Magazijn. Groningen 1809
• Praelectiones ad prolegomena, et partem primam Institutionum Iustineanearum, commodo discipulorum suorum, suoque typis expressae. Groningen 1819
• Opuscula academica. Groningen 1821
• Redevoering over het staatswezen, the academic regtsleeraar en de regtsgeleerde deserve van AJ Duymaer van Twist. Groningen 1821

literature

• van Kuyk: Gratama (Seerp) . In: Johannes Blok, Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen: Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. (NNBW), Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (ING), AW Sijthoff, Leiden, 1914, Vol. 3, Col. 491-494
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden, bevattende levensbeschrijvingen van zoodanige people, who zich op eenigerlei wijze in ons vaderland vermaard made. JJ Van Brederode Verlag, Haarlem, 1862, Vol. 7, pp. 369-372 ( available online , Dutch)
• Friedrich Julius Otto: The complete literature of the Netherlands, or life and work of the Dutch writers since the thirteenth century up to our time. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Hildburghausen-Amsterdam-Philadelphia, 1838, Sp. 162 ( available online )