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Jean Barbeyrac (
March 15,
1674 ?
March 3,
1744) was a
French jurist.
Born at
Béziers in
Lower Languedoc, the nephew of
Charles Barbeyrac, a distinguished
physician of
Montpellier. He moved with his family into
Switzerland after the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes. After spending some time at
Geneva and
Frankfurt am Main, he became professor of belles-lettres in the French school of Berlin. Then, in
1711, he was called to the professorship of
history and
civil law at
Lausanne, and finally settled as professor of public law at
Groningen. He was an advocat of the "dignitas et utilitas juris ac historiarum et utriusque amica conjunctio".
His fame rests chiefly on the preface and notes to his translation of
Pufendorf's treatise
De Jure Naturae et Gentium. In fundamental principles he follows almost entirely
Locke and
Pufendorf; but he works out with great skill the theory of moral obligation, referring it to the command or will of God. He indicates the distinction, developed more fully by
Thomasius and
Kant, between the legal and the moral qualities of action. The principles of international law he reduces to those of the law of nature, and in so doing opposes many of the positions taken up by Grotius. He rejects the notion that sovereignty in any way resembles property, and makes even marriage a matter of civil contract. Barbeyrac also translated
Grotius's
De Jure Belli et Pacis,
Cumberland's
De Legibus Naturae, and Pufendorf's smaller treatise
De Officio Hominis et Civis.
Among his own productions are a treatise,
De la morale des pères, a history of ancient treaties contained in the
Supplément au grand corps diplomatique, and the curious
Traité du jeu (
1709), in which he defends the morality of games of chance.
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