Julius Caesar de Miranda
Julius Caesar de Miranda | |
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Queen Juliana | |
Succeeded by | Jacques Drielsma |
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Born | Paramaribo, Suriname | 3 April 1906
Died | 28 November 1956 Paramaribo, Suriname | (aged 50)
Julius Caesar de Miranda (3 April 1906 – 28 November 1956) was a Surinamese jurist and politician. De Miranda was the first prime minister of Suriname.
Biography
De Miranda was a descendant of an old established family of planters. He went to the Netherlands for his education, where he studied at the Barlaeus Gymnasium in Amsterdam,[1] and then continued to study law at the University of Amsterdam.[2] On 20 December 1928 he passed his state examination in law.[3]
After returning to Suriname he worked as a lawyer in Paramaribo from 1929 to 1946.[2] In 1946, he traveled to the Netherlands once again. He received a doctorate in legal science from the University of Amsterdam on 18 December 1946. His thesis was a plea for democratisation and self governance for Suriname.[4] He was appointed to the Court of Paramaribo in the same year[5] and was in the year of his death, even for a short time its president.[2]
De Miranda was from 1932 to 1938 a member of the Colonial States.
Between 1942 and 1946, he returned as a member of the Colonial States.[3] He served as Minister of Justice and Police, Education and Finance. In addition, he was Prime Minister from 1949 to 1951.[3] On 17 June 1949, De Miranda passed a law that the word colony was no longer allowed to be used in combination with Suriname in legal documents.[6] The government fell over the Hospital Question in which Lou Lichtveld as Minister of Health had fired doctor Henk van Ommeren over alleged irregularities which were later proven false.[7]
In 1955 he moved to the Netherlands, because of health reasons, but recovered and decided to return to Suriname.[2] On 12 April 1956 he became President of the High Court of Justice which he remained until he died eight months later at the age of 50, on 28 November 1956 about 2 o'clock in the morning, to a coronary thrombosis.[2]
Julius Caesar de Miranda was not only an exceptional Surinamese, but also an authoritative jurist who has contributed much to the legal science in Suriname,[3] and a mentor and teacher to Jagernath Lachmon.[8]
On 28 November 1961, a statue created by Leo Braat was unveiled by his widow. The statue which shows him in robe is located on the Mr. de Mirandastraat in the centre of Paramaribo.[9]
Literature
- ISBN 9789991400549[10]
References
- ^ "Mr. dr. de Miranda plotseling overleden". Amigoe di Curacao via Delpher.nl (in Dutch). 29 November 1956. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Groot Surinamer ging heen". Amigoe di Curacao via Delpher (in Dutch). 29 November 1956. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "Julius Caesar de Miranda". Suriname.nu (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "De West Indische Gids - Page 152". University of Florida (in Dutch). 1947. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Mr. Dr. J.C. de Miranda lid van het hof". Het Nieuws via Delpher (in Dutch). 14 December 1946. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Vervangen van het woord kolonie". De West via Delpher (in Dutch). 17 June 1949. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Hospitaalkwestie". Suriname.nu (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Jagernath Lachmon". Canon van Nederland (in Dutch). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- ^ "Paramaribo, 21 juni 1975". Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (in Dutch). 21 June 1975. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- OCLC 49332270. Retrieved 19 November 2020 – via World Cat.
External links
- Media related to Julius Caesar de Miranda at Wikimedia Commons
- Julius Caesar de Miranda (in Dutch)