Willem Leonard Pieter Arnold Molengraaff

Willem Leonard Pieter Arnold Molengraaff

Willem Leonard Pieter Arnold Molengraaff (born May 10, 1858 in Nijmegen , † July 7, 1931 in The Hague ) was a Dutch legal scholar.

Life

Willem Leonard Pieter Arnold was the son of pastor Gerhard Johan Molengraaff (1806–1875) and his wife Willemina Jacoba Theodora Abeleven (1826–1860), who was married in 1855. He is thus a brother of Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff . After attending Latin school and high school in his hometown, he matriculated on September 25, 1875 as a law student at the University of Leiden . Here Joël Emanuel Goudsmit , Rembt Tobias Hugo Pieter Liebrecht Alexander van Boneval Faure , Anthony Ewoud Jan Modderman and Johannes Theodoor Buys became his formative teachers. On March 20, 1880, he received his doctorate under Boneval Faure with the thesis Internationale averij-gross reguling (German International Havarieanordnung ) to the doctor of law.

He then worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam and from 1883 as a deputy judge there. During this time he began in 1882 with his colleagues Hendrik Lodewijk Drucker (1857-1917) and Samuël Katz (1845-1890) to publish the magazine Rechtsgeleerd Magazijn , for which he wrote a large number of articles. In 1883 he became adjunct secretary and later in 1888 secretary of the State Commission for the creation of a code of law for the trade in the Netherlands. Since he had drawn attention to himself in many ways, he received a professorship for commercial law and civil legal ordinances at the University of Utrecht in 1885 , which task he took on with the introductory speech Het verkeersrecht in wetgeving en wetenschap (German: Traffic law in legislation and science ). As such he worked in 1892 as a member and in 1894 as chairman of the State Commission for the Legal Regulation of Life Insurance and advocated compulsory professional insurance for workers. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Utrecht University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the 1902/03 academy year .

In 1917 he retired from his professorship and held his farewell lecture on June 8 of the same year on the subject of Een terugblik (German: A look back ). He then worked as an auditor and advisor to a Rotterdam banking association and drafted Dutch bills on commercial, maritime and private law. From 1900 to 1907 and 1908 to 1918 he was a member of the Provincial States of Utrecht and served as deputy judge in Utrecht from 1912 to 1918. He was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion , he became a Knight of the Order of Leopold of Belgium , in 1924 Commander of the Order of Orange Nassau and in 1910 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences . The Molengraaff Institute for Private Law in Utrecht is named after him.

family

Molengraaff married on April 24, 1881 in Nijmegen with Heiltje Johanna Henrietta Abeleven (born January 5, 1856 in Nijmegen; † October 28, 1915 in Baarn), the daughter of the pharmacist Theodorus Hendrik Arnoldus Jacobus Abeleven (born December 28, 1822 in Nijmegen ; † February 21, 1904 ibid) and his wife Johanna Alphertina Willemina Alpherts (born September 3, 1822 in Culemborg; † April 29, 1880 in Nijmegen). The marriage has two sons and three daughters. From the children we know:

• Gerard Johann Hendrik Gustaaf Molengraaff (born January 18, 1882 in Amsterdam; † January 27, 1882 ibid.)
• Johanna Alpertina Willemina Molengraaff (born November 30, 1883 in Amsterdam, † September 22, 1906 in Utrecht)
• Willemina Jacoba Theodora Molengraaff (born June 30, 1887 in Utrecht, † December 21, 1979 in Apeldoorn) married. July 9, 1912 in Utrecht with Willem Cornelis Mees (born November 10, 1882 in Groningen; † May 6, 1976 in Apeldoorn)
• Gerard Johan Hendrik Molengraaff (born June 30, 1887 in Utrecht, † April 10, 1961 in Wassenaar), became a geologist, married. April 14, 1927 in Curacao with Ellen Louisa Tolcher Eccles (* around 1905)
• Theodora Willemina Gustava Molengraaff (born March 16, 1890 in Utrecht, † January 26, 1976 in Katwijk)

Works (selection)

• International avarij-grand regulation. Leiden 1880
• Het verkeersrecht in wetgeving en wetenschap. Haarlem 1885
• De begrafenisfondsen in Nederland. Ouderkerk, 1892
• De Faillissementswet Verklaard. The Hague, 1898
• De dageraad van het wereldrecht. Utrecht 1899
• Frontoniana. Utrecht 1902
• Het onderzoek naar het vaderschap. Baarn 1905
• Leiddraad bij de beoefening van het Nederlandsch commercial law. 1917, 1923-1925, etc. 4th vol.
• De zoogenaamde nationaliteit of the naamlooze vennootschap. Amsterdam 1918
• Het Permanente Hof van Internationale Justitie. Amsterdam 1922
• Inleiding tot het Dutch commercial law. Haarlem 1925, 1930
• Kort understands van het nieuwe Nederlandsche zeerecht. Haarlem 1927
• Commercial arbitration and Dutch law. Paris 1928
• Principes de droit commercial neérlandais. Paris 1931

literature

• Onze Hoogleeraren. Portretten en Biografieën. Nigh & van Ditmar, Rotterdam, 1898, p. 197
• How is that? 1902. Vivat, Amsterdam, 1902, p. 323
• WM Peletier: Molengraaff, Willem Leonard Pieter Arnold (1858-1931). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. The Hague, 1979, Vol. 1, ( Online )
• Michael Stolleis: Lawyers. A biographical dictionary, from antiquity to the 20th century. CH Beck, Munich, 2001, p. 448

Web links

• Molengraaff in the Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae
• Genealogielink (accessed June 20, 2016)
• Molengraaff entry at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences