Ulrik Huber

Ulrik Huber ( born March 13, 1636 Dokkum, † November 8, 1694 in Franeker ), Ulrich Huber or Ulricus Huber, was a professor of history, rhetoric and law at the University of Franeker in Friesland.

Life

Huber studied at the universities of Franeker, Utrecht and Heidelberg. 1657 he was appointed professor of rhetoric and history at Franeker, in 1665 a professor of law. From 1679 to 1682 he worked as a judge at the Court of Appeal of Friesland and then returned to his chair of Law in Franeker back, a position he held until his death in 1694 ..

His major work, De jure civitatis libri tres was first published in 1672, to 1694 revised several times by him. It is considered to document the transition from scholasticism to the Enlightenment, to a democratic system based on enlightened absolutism on the free will of autonomous subjects. His views on the sovereignty of the people, culminating in a theory limited governance, including a right of resistance against tyrants. During his lifetime he was known far beyond the borders of his workplace and beyond for its studies on the Roman law. In the Netherlands, he is also known for his work Heedensdaegse Rechtsgeleertheyt soo elders, as in Friesland gebruikelijk (1686, 1786), in which he is the former Frisian legal system as a whole. As a high school teacher, he continued teaching methods of Johann Friedrich Böckelman in teaching. Through its processing and teaching of the Roman-Dutch law on the basis of Roman law Huber is one of the representatives of usage modernus pandectarum.

At the University of Groningen an institute of the Faculty of Law was named after him.

Works

• Digressiones Justinianeae, 1670
• Repetitae animadversiones ad ius in re et ad rem, 1675
• De jure civitatis, 1676
• Praelectiones iuris Civilis, 1686ff.