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8 - Ulrik Huber

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2021

By
Atsuko Fukuoka
Edited by
Wim Decock  and
Janwillem Oosterhuis
Wim Decock
Affiliation:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Janwillem Oosterhuis
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
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Ulrik Huber was born in 1636 at Dokkum in Friesland as the sixth child of Zacharias Huber (c. 1601–1678), who was then a local notary (procureur). Zacharias’s father, Heinrich (or Hendrik, c. 1557–1641), was born in Altikon, a small village at the northern periphery of the canton Zürich. He came to the Low Countries during the Eighty Years War as a mercenary—according to Ulrik’s account, as ‘one of the vanguards of Dutch liberty and the Reformed Religion against the Spanish tyranny’. Heinrich’s military honour probably helped his resettlement in the Low Countries and his son Zacharias to marry a woman from the Frisian eigenerfden (proprietors) class, Sjoukje Jensma (c. 1603–1644), in 1626. Ulrik was born of this marriage. The political and social structure of Friesland was more democratic than that of other provinces of the Netherlands and it offered the extraordinarily talented boy a place to flourish. Ulrik climbed the ladder of society higher than any of his ancestors, eventually becoming a judge of Friesland’s highest court and one of the most renowned Dutch jurists of its Golden Age.

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Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries , pp. 139 - 158
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Print publication year: 2021

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  • Ulrik Huber
  • Edited by Wim Decock, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Janwillem Oosterhuis, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Book: Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries
  • Online publication: 16 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555388.009
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  • Edited by Wim Decock, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Janwillem Oosterhuis, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Book: Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries
  • Online publication: 16 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555388.009
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  • Ulrik Huber
  • Edited by Wim Decock, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Janwillem Oosterhuis, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Book: Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries
  • Online publication: 16 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555388.009
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