Anthony Modderman
Anthony Ewoud January Modderman also: Antonie Ewoud January Modderman ( born September 27, 1838 in Winschoten; † August 7, 1885 in The Hague) was a Dutch jurist and politician.
Life
The son of the future member of the second chamber Hendrik Jacob Herman Modderman (* June 24, 1796 in Groningen, † September 4, 1859 in The Hague) and his wife Adriana Sibilla Catharina Emmen ( * December 15, 1799 in Groningen, † November 10 1880 in the Hague), the Trivalschule his native city had frequented in his early teens. Since his father moved to The Hague official, he attended the local school in 1847 and as of September 3, 1850 the high school there. On 3 September 1850 he completed his certification exam for the university and enrolled on 15 September 1856 a law degree at the University of Leiden. After he had completed a sufficient number of tests, he received his doctorate with the topic de Hervorming onzer Strafwetgeving ( free German translation: The reform of our criminal law, The Hague 1863) on 13 June 1863 Doctor of Laws. He then worked as a lawyer at the High Council in The Hague and was appointed on 21 July 1864 as Professor of Law at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam. He joined the task on 24 October 1864, the Criminal speech geen kwaad ( free German translated sentences are not bad, Amsterdam 1864) on. As of 28 September 1870, he worked in a state commission which should work out a new Criminal Code of the Netherlands.
On November 5, 1870, he was appointed by Royal Decree professor of criminal law, criminal procedure law, Encyclopedia and Methologie of law at the University of Leiden. He accepted this task on March 18, 1871 with the inaugural De method of wetenschap van het criminal ( German freely translated: The method of the science of criminal law, Leiden, 1871). In addition, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was 1878/79 Rector of the Alma Mater. He put this task with the speech De Eenheid the wetenschap en het right van het ideaal ( free German translation: The unity of science and the law of the ideal, Leiden 1879) down. This was also the last official act as a high school teacher, because on August 18, 1879 had appointed him Minister of Justice of the Cabinet Van Lynden van sand castle, which became operational in the summer of 1879. He therefore asked on September 6, 1879 to be released from his high school teacher office and became Professor Emeritus from his professorship on 20 October of the same year.
As Minister of Justice he ordered in 1880 the revision of the Civil Code of the Netherlands and in 1881 protested the draft Criminal Code against the reintroduction of the death penalty. In addition, he sent in 1880 a law on the way, which should protect brand names. He also changed in 1881, the law of copyright, which dated from 1817. This program sets out, among other things, that the copyright was valid for fifty years, and that this could extend to 30 years after the author's death. In addition, he has been involved in the introduction of a law on the sale of alcohol.
Since the cabinet dissolved in April 1883, he resigned as Minister of Justice on 23 April 1883. The king then appointed him as honorary Minister of State and he was curator of the Gymnasium in The Hague. In the summer of 1883, his health deteriorated. So he moved to Wiesbaden where the disease could not be cured. After they had called him on 29 May 1885 as a member of the High Council of the Netherlands, he returned to the Netherlands. However, his health deteriorated to such an extent that he could no longer fill the office entrusted to him and died.
Throughout his life had let him get very many hits. So we took him in 1865 as a member of the Society of Dutch literature in Leiden on, he was on April 25, 1881 Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam, Member of the Association of Statistics of the Netherlands, member of the Historical Society in Utrecht, Member of the Dutch society of Sciences and Liberal Arts in Haarlem and many others in - and foreign learned societies. It gave him the February 8, 1880 the Teutonic Knights, and on February 6, 1881 the commander of the Dutch Lion. He was winner of the Franz Joseph Order and of the Russian Order of St. Anne.
Family
Modderman married on 31 August 1864 in The Hague Elizabeth Anna Louise de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel ( born November 8, 1844 in Utrecht, † July 31, 1905 in The Hague), the daughter of Cornelis de Vos Lodewijk (* June 16, 1804 in Utrecht, † March 13, 1885 in Schevingen ) and his wife Anna Maria Elisabeth Graeve stone ( born July 8, 1812 in Culemborg, † January 11, 1883 in Schevingen ). From this marriage were born children. From this we know:
- Hendrik Jacob Hermen Modderman ( born June 10, 1865 in Amsterdam)
- Lodewijk Cornelis Modderman ( born October 25, 1866 in Amsterdam, † March 17, 1945 in Oegstgeest )
- Stillborn daughter (* & † September 23, 1868 in Amsterdam)
- Hendrik Adriaan Ewoud Modderman ( born September 19, 1870 in Amsterdam, † November 4, 1937 ibid ) was a judge in Amsterdam
- Anna Elisabeth Maria Modderman (* July 16, 1872 in Leiden, † November 29, 1932 in Utrecht ) m. on 9 November 1901 in The Hague with the engineer and director of the foundry in Alkmaar Hendrik Adriaan de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel Ewoud ( born September 20, 1875 in Doesburg, † September 21, 1946 in The Hague)
- Ewoud Anthony Jacob Herman Modderman ( born February 10, 1874 in Leiden, † September 22, 1908 in Delft ) m. on April 3, 1903 in The Hague, Anna Maria Elisabeth van der Bilt ( born November 20, 1877 in Chapel )
- Adriane Sibylla Catharina Modderman ( born June 29, 1877 in Leiden, † December 25, 1930 in The Hague ) m. on 8 July 1901 in The Hague with the merchant Jacobus Matthijs Nap (* July 10, 1872 in Ghent, † March 9, 1945 in The Hague)
- Johan Hendrik Adriaan Modderman ( born December 12, 1880 in The Hague, † November 3, 1956 in Zeist ) m. with Adelaïde Johanna Hermina Spandouw
- Willem Jacob Modderman ( born 2 May 1882 in The Hague, † July 7, 1936 in Leiden )