Carl Wilhelm Pauli

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Hereditary funeral of the Carl Wilhelm Paulis family in the Burgtorfriedhof

Carl Wilhelm Pauli (born December 18, 1792 in Lübeck ; † March 18, 1879 there ) was a German legal scholar , judge and historian .

Family and origin

Pauli was the son of the Lübeck merchant Adrian Wilhelm Pauli and, in this case especially formative, his wife, the philanthropist Magdalena Poel . She came from a Dutch family. Her great-grandfather Gerrit Claesz Poel had instructed Tsar Peter in Zaandam in shipbuilding , which he later followed as a shipbuilder to Saint Petersburg . Her father Jacobus Poel had risen to Russia's most prestigious business community in Arkhangelsk and was accordingly wealthy. Nevertheless, with the early death of her mother in 1763, she grew up with her younger brother Piter Poel (1760–1837) in children's homes and boarding schools and was very closely related to this throughout her life. Piter Poel was later editor of the Altonaer Mercur and member of the philanthropic circle of friends around Caspar Voght and Georg Heinrich Sieveking .

Life

Pauli's family moved from Lübeck to Altona during his childhood after his father went bankrupt in 1794, where the family was included in the local Hamburg society. Pauli visited the Christianeum in Altona until the family moved to Bückeburg in 1808 , making it necessary to change schools. After graduating from high school, Pauli studied law in Tübingen and completed his studies at the University of Göttingen with a doctorate after the wars of liberation . He first became a lawyer in Lübeck. However, he was actually aiming for a public office, which had also become possible for him as a Reformed since the Federal Constitution of 1816 in Lübeck. In 1820, under President Georg Arnold Heise , whom he already knew personally from his time in Göttingen, he became secretary of the newly established Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities in Lübeck. Due to the difficult method of judging the four Free Cities among each other, he was appointed to the Higher Appeal Judge in 1843 as the successor to Friedrich Bluhme . Until his first stroke in 1869, he gave the court his entire workforce from then on and this time was clearly at the expense of his historical research interests developed in Lübeck, based on the publication dates.

Pauli had not only been involved as head of the Reformed Community in Lübeck since 1822 , but in 1834 he had also succeeded in finding the Upper and Lower Town books that were believed to have been lost . These formed the documentary basis of his extensive publication work, which he was able to resume after the first stroke until his death. He belonged to the liberal reformers of the Jung-Lübeck group.

In 1870 he was awarded the highest honor in the city, the Bene Merenti commemorative coin, by the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

He was married to Emmy, b. Meyer (1801-1857). The couple's sons included the district judge Theodor Pauli (1822–1882), the farmer and world traveler Gustav Friedrich Pauli (1824–1911), the Bremen mayor Alfred Dominicus Pauli and Johannes (John) Pauli (* 1838), who died in the American Civil War fell on the side of the Northern States in the New York 8th Infantry Regiment in June 1862 in the Battle of Cross Keys .

Works

  • Treatises from Luebian law. 4 parts (volumes) 1837, 1840, 1841 and 1865.
  • Lübeck conditions. 3 parts (anthologies) 1847, 1872 and 1878.
  • History of the Lübeck hymn books and assessment of the present one. 1875.

literature

supporting documents

  1. ↑ See also ADB vol. 53, p. 87 ff.
  2. ^ Gustav Pauli : memories from seven decades. Wunderlich Verlag, Tübingen 1936, p. 35
  3. ^ Lars Frühsorge: Life of the world traveler Gustav Pauli. In: News. Society for Geography and Ethnology in Lübeck, accessed on October 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ 8th Infantry Roster , p. 553
  5. ↑ Review: XIX Hymnologie, Dr. Carl Wilhelm Pauli, History ... , in: Journal for the entire Lutheran theology and church , Volume 38, Dörffling & Franke, Leipzig, p. 566ff., Digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DLTs8AQAAMAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA566~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D

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personal data
SURNAME Pauli, Carl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, judge and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1879
Place of death Lübeck