Jean-Jacques Haus

Jean-Jaques Haus (aka Jacques-Joseph Haus) was born in Würzburg, Germany on January 5, 1796. By his father, Ernest-Augustus Haus, and by his mother Marie-Barbe Svang. Jacques-Joseph Haus made his primary, middle and superior studies in his native city. He got doctor's rank in philosophy January 3 1814 not having reached the age of eighteen years. Three years later, April 26, 1817, he was proclaimed summa cum laude Ph.D. in civil law and in cannunical law.

in 1817 King William I of the Netherlands enacted the creation of three universities in the southern provinces of his kingdom: in Ghent, in Liege and in Louvain. But the staff missed. The rector of the university of Würzbourg was consulted and designated several candidates, among which Jacques-Joseph Haus. A royal decree of August 26, 1817 named it criminal law professor and of natural right to the university of Ghent.

--Chaus 22:01, May 7, 2005 (UTC)