Hermanus Noordkerk
Hermanus Noordkerk (New Latin: Hermanni Noordkerk; 28 January 1702 – 6 November 1771) was a Dutch lawyer and writer.
Works
[edit]- Specimen lectionum, seu Disquisitio de Lege Petronia (1731)[1]
- Observationum decas: in quibus varia juris Romani capita exponuntur aut emendantur (1731)[2]
De Matrimoniis
[edit]Hermanni Noordkerk: De Matrimoniis, Ob turpe Facinus, quod Peccatum Sodomiticum vocant, Jure Solvendis, Dissertatio. Amstekedami, Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios. M. D. CC.XXXIII [1733].
Small 8vo.; size of paper 6½ by 4¼, of letter-press 5¼ by 2¹³⁄₁₆ inches; pp. 116, with 12 unnumbered pages of title, dedication (to nine gentlemen), and preface; fleuron of a basket of flowers on the title-page.[3]
The work is divided into five chapters, of which the contents are briefly as follows:
- The author examines, in 13 paragraphs, the ancient laws, and those of the Middle Ages, and concludes that the law can never embrace all cases.[4]
- Whether the act of sodomy is a sufficient cause for divorce, considered in twelve paragraphs.[5]
- The ten paragraphs are devoted to the consideration of the effect which might be produced by the commission of sodomy before the solemnisation of marriage.[5]
- Is the absence or flight of the person suspected of sodomy sufficient cause for divorce? Seven paragraphs.[5]
- In 1733 the Dutch government had condemned those persons who were accused of sodomy and who had taken to flight. Can such fugitives be legally divorced? Eight paragraphs.[5]
Henry Spencer Ashbee, writing pseudonymously in 1885, gave the following assessment of this work: "The treatise has little or no value at present, but is nevertheless remarkable on account of the references and quotations, a few of which are in Dutch."[5]
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Ashbee, Henry Spencer (1885). Catena Librorum Tacendorum. London: privately printed. pp. 11–12. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- "Noordkerk (Mr. Hermanus)". Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek. Vol. 10. pp. 673–4.
- "Noordkerk (Hermanus)". Bijvoegsel op het Biogtaphisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden. pp. 302–5.