Johann Jacob Vitriarius

Johann Jacob Vitriarius
Johannes Jacobus Vitriarius c. 1735
Born	(1679-06-08)8 June 1679 Geneva
Died	12 December 1745(1745-12-12) (aged 66) Leiden
Nationality	Dutch, German
Occupation	Jurist

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

Life

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

• 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

Citations

1. Prof. J.J. Vitriarius: Universiteit Utrecht.
2. Zedler 1746, p. 113.
3. Frensdorff 1896, p. 82.

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.