Sybrand Johannes Fockema Andreae

Sybrand Johannes Fockema Andreae (born June 4, 1844 in Beesterzwaag (Opsterland) , † January 17, 1921 in Leiden ) was a Dutch legal historian.

Life

Sybrand Johannes was the son of the notary Arnold Andreae (born September 27, 1804 in Leeuwarden; † June 4, 1873 in Heerenveen) and his wife Geeske Fockema (born January 5, 1809; † March 21, 1879 in Leeuwarden). He had attended the village school in his birthplace and later the grammar school in Leeuwarden . In 1863 he began studying at the University of Leiden , where Joël Emanuel Goudsmit , Rembt Tobias Hugo Pieter Liebrecht Alexander van Boneval Faure , Johan de Wal , Johannes Theodoor Buys and Simon Vissering were his formative teachers. In Leiden Fockema Andreae received her doctorate on December 16, 1868 with the thesis Beschouwingen over Burenrecht (freely translated into German: views on Burenrecht) as a doctor of law. He then became a lawyer in his place of birth, in 1869 a canton judge in Lemmer and in 1872 a canton judge in Hillegersberg . On October 6, 1873 he was judge at the district court in Leiden and in May 1877 judge at the district court in Amsterdam .

On September 11, 1877, he was appointed professor of Dutch legal history at the University of Leiden, which task he assumed on November 28, 1877 with the speech Gronden voor de beoefening der Germaansche Rechtsgeschiedenis (freely translated into German: reasons for studying German legal history) . In 1886 he became a councilor in Leiden and took part in various organizational tasks in the city. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University. In 1882 he was dean of the law school and in 1893/94 rector of the Alma . He resigned the latter task with the speech Het rechtsgeleert bedrijf in Nederland (freely translated into German: The legal term in the Netherlands) on February 8, 1894. He retired from his professorship on August 17, 1914 and retired on September 21, 1914.

He was also a member of several learned societies of his time. On April 23, 1886, he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences , was a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium , an honorary member of the Berlin Legal Society and a member of the Society for Dutch Literature in Leiden. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1919 and was knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion .

Iconographically it should be noted that he was immortalized in 1911 by Afina Goudschaal (1877-1956) on a painting. It is located in the Senate Chamber of Leiden University.

family

Fockema Andreae met on May 19, 1870 in Opsterland with Elisabeth Reinardina Lunsingh Tonckens (born September 10, 1850 in Opsterland; † June 10, 1905 in Leiden), the daughter of the doctor of medicine and mayor Joachimus Lunsingh Tonckens (born March 28, 1905 in Leiden) 1817 in Westervelde; † April 1, 1893 in The Hague) and Helena Aletta Koumans Smeding (born February 2, 1826 in Leeuwarden; † October 4, 1910 in The Hague), married. During the marriage, two sons and two daughters were born. From the children we know:

Helena Aletta Fockema Andreae (born October 25, 1871 in Lemmer, † July 26, 1951 in Bussum) married. October 1, 1896 in Leiden with Dr. Albert Kluijver (1858–1938), later in Groningen
Geeske Fockema Andreae (born June 27, 1873 in Hillegersberg, † January 17, 1972 in Zundert) married. December 29, 1896 in Leiden with Pieter Cornelis Tobias van der Hoeven (born August 28, 1870 in Brielle; † May 30, 1953 in Zundert)
Arnold Daniel Hermannus Fockema Andreae (born July 1, 1875 in Leiden, † June 20, 1960 in Arnhem) married. August 1, 1900 in Deventer with Fenneken Kosters (born March 23, 1877 in Heenvliet; † May 26, 1956 Arnhem)
Joachimus Pieter Fockema Andreae (born July 30, 1879 in Leiden; † July 27, 1949 in Utrecht) became mayor of Utrecht, royal commissioner in the province of Groningen and curator of the University of Utrecht.

Works (selection)

Beschouwingen over Burenrecht. Leiden 1868
Gronden voor de beoefening der Germaansche Rechtsgeschiedenis. Leiden 1877
Overzicht van Oud-Nederl. Rightly. Haarlem 1881
The city Vollenhoven in hair right, a bijdrage tot de Overijsselsche right divorced. Zwolle 1885
De partijen in Nederland. 1891
Het rechtsgeleerd bedrijf in Nederland. Leiden 1894
Het Oud-Nederlandsch burgerlijk right. Haarlem 1906, 2nd vol .; also as: Bijdragen tot de Nederlandsche Rechtsgeschiedenis. Haarlem, 1888-1900, 4 parts
Hugo de Groot, Inleiding tot de Hollandsche Rechtsgeleerdheit, met aanteekeningen. Arnhem 1895, 1910

A large number of individual treatises and specific specialist articles can be found at Muller.

literature

How is that? Uitgevers-Maatschaapij “Vivat”, Amsterdam, 1902, p. 154
Onze Hoogleeraren. Portretten en Biografieën. Nihgh & van Ditmar. Rotterdam, 1898, p. 21
CA SIEGENBEEK VAN HEUKELOM-LAMME. OCD IDENBURG-SIEGENBEEK VAN HEUKELOM: ALBUM SCHOLASTICUM, ACADEMIAE LUGDUNO-BATAVAE, MDLXXV — MCMXL. EJ BRILL, Leiden, 1941, p. 127
S. Muller: Levens report SJ Fockema Andreae. In: Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. 1921–1922, Amsterdam, pp. 13–43, ( Online PDF )
R. Feenstra: ANDREAE, Sijbrandus Johannes (1844-1921). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. The Hague, 1989, Vol. 3, ( Online )

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personal data
SURNAME	Fockema Andreae, Sybrand Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Beesterzwaag (Opsterland)
DATE OF DEATH	January 17, 1921
Place of death	Suffer