Johan van oldenbarnevelt biography of albert einstein in english

The Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was the principal architect of the independence of the republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands after the death of William the Silent. Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was born on Sept.

Pensionary Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, was beheaded in on the orders of the figurehead of the Subtle is the lord: The science and life of Albert Einstein.

At the age of 16 he began the study of law in an attorney's office at The Hague, then in undertook 4 years of formal legal studies in the universities of Louvain, Bourges, Cologne, Heidelberg, and probably Padua. In he returned to practice law in The Hague and Delft. He chose the party of the Prince of Orange in and took part in the vain attempt to relieve Haarlem in and in the successful relief of Leiden in From until he was the pensionary chief legal officer of Rotterdam, but his legal duties were subordinated to political tasks, principally representation of the town in the States of Holland, and he acquired increasing importance as a national leader.

Oldenbarnevelt did not favor the policy followed by William I William the Silent of seeking a foreign sovereign for the Dutch provinces, urging instead until the prince's murder in that he be named sovereign lord.

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However, Oldenbarnevelt was a member of the delegation which went to England in to offer Elizabeth I the sovereignty of the United Provinces. She refused but sent the Earl of Leicester to be governor general. So Oldenbarnevelt turned to William's son, Maurice of Nassau , as a figure around whom to organize resistance to Leicester's attempts to build a political base in the United Provinces independent of the States General and the provincial States.

On Oldenbarnevelt's initiative Maurice was given his father's posts as stadholder of Holland and Zeeland in and later in other provinces. Meanwhile Leicester was repeatedly thwarted in his political initiatives by Oldenbarnevelt, who became advocate of Holland a post like that of town pensionary on the provincial level on May 6, When Leicester quit his post and went home in , Oldenbarnevelt used the opportunity to shift the primary work of central government in the United Provinces from the Council of State, in which successors of Leicester continued to sit, to the States General.

However, he staunchly maintained the principle that the ultimate sovereignty lay in each province. Oldenbarnevelt supported Maurice in his military campaigns, especially during the s. In he negotiated a triple alliance with England and France, which constituted the first de facto recognition of the Dutch Republic as an independent state.