Johann Jacob Vitriarius

Johann Jacob Vitriarius (8 June 1679 - 12 December 1745)[1][2] was a Dutch jurist of German descent.

Johann Jacob Vitriarius
Johannes Jacobus Vitriarius c. 1735
Born(1679-06-08)8 June 1679
Died12 December 1745(1745-12-12) (aged 66)
NationalityDutch, German
OccupationJurist

Life edit

Johann Jacob Vitrarius was the son of the German jurist Philipp Reinhard Vitriarius, who between 1675 and 1682 taught law at the Geneva Academy.[3] At the age of 2 or 3 he moved to Leiden in the Dutch Republic when his father became professor at Leiden University. Eventually, Vitriarius studied law at the same university, earning a doctorate there in 1701 with the thesis Disputio juridica inauguralis de acquisitione rerum originaria.[1][2]

Vitrarius became a professor of law at Heidelberg University in 1706 [2] and was appointed to the law faculty at Utrecht University on 4 June 1708, commencing on 17 September 1708.[1] During 1714-15 he was Rector Magnificus at Utrecht. He left Utrecht in 1719 to take up a position at Leiden.[1] Here he took the place of his father, and was equally widely acclaimed, particularly by the German students who at that time often studied at Dutch universities.[3] He taught at Leiden until 15 January 1720.

Vitrarius died on 12 December 1745 in Leiden, aged 66.[1][2]

Bibliography edit

  • Annotati ad Grotii de jure belli ac pacis libros tres, 1724
  • Annotata ad Sam. Stryckii examen juris feudalis. XVIII century, 1724
  • Notes on Roman Law, Alexander Boswell, 1724 , 1724
  • Observationes in Hugonem Grotium de Jure Belli ac Pacis. 1728-29, Alexander Boswell, 1724
  • Phil. Reinh. Vitriarii ... Institutiones Juris Naturae et Gentium ... ad Methodum Hugonis Grotii conscriptae, Leiden, Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1734; with Johann Franz Buddeus's Historia juris naturalis, Synopsis juris naturalis & gentium ..., ut & Specimen jurisprudentiae historicae.
  • Oratio funebris in obitum ... Antonii Schultingii, Halae Magdeburgicae, 1734

References edit

Citations
Sources
  • Frensdorff, Ferdinand (1896). "Vitriarius, Philipp Reinhard". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Vol. 40. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  • "Prof. J.J. Vitriarius". Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
  • Zedler, Johann Heinrich (1746). "Vitriarius, Johann Jacob". Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon Aller Wissenschafften und Künste. Vol. 49. Leipzig.