Carl Wilhelm of Lancizolle

Carl Wilhelm of Lancizolle

Carl Wilhelm von Deleuze de Lancizolle (born February 17, 1796 in Berlin ; † May 21, 1871 there ) was a German lawyer and legal historian .

origin

Lancizolle was born into a Languedoc family. His father Jean Etienne de Leuze (1749-1838) was a consistorial councilor and secret lecturer in the ministry of culture and a member of the French Reformed community ("French Colonie") in Berlin. His mother was Charlotte Isabelle Amélie Du Trossel (1754–1839) a daughter of the Supreme Court Councilor of the French Colony in Berlin Etienne Du Trossel (1699–1760) and Charlotte Rébotier .

family

He married Friederike Seegemund in Berlin in 1829 , a daughter of Johann Friedrich Seegemund and Charlotte Caroline Knicker . The couple had four sons and four daughters, including Anne Pauline Charlotte (* 1835), who later became superior of the Evangelical Hospital Queen Elisabeth Herzberge in Berlin.

Life

In Berlin, Lancizolle attended the French grammar school and the Friedrichswerder grammar school . He volunteered and took part in the Wars of Liberation as a hunter in 1813/1814 . From 1814 he studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Georg-August University Göttingen Law and graduated in 1818 with the doctorate from Gottingen. In 1819 he completed his habilitation in Berlin and in 1820 became an associate professor and in 1823 a full professor at the Berlin University. In addition to private law, his teaching activities primarily included German legal history. He also taught these subjects to the Prussian Crown Prince, later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV .

In 1832 Lancizolle joined the Ober-Censur-Collegium, in 1843 it was taken over by its successor, the Ober-Censur -gericht, which was repealed in 1848. From around 1845, Lancizolle was entrusted with various special orders by Friedrich Wilhelm IV . For example, he was involved in the settlement of a dispute between Great Britain and France over trade interests in West Africa , dealt with the civil status in Westphalia and had to clarify Prussia's claims to Schleswig-Holstein and Braunschweig .

In 1852 Lancizoll was appointed director of the Prussian State Archives ; he held this office until 1866. He was also active in the church sector and was one of the founders of the Berlin Mission Society around 1824 .

plant

In his scientific and political work, Lancizolle, who belonged to the romantic-conservative and neo-Pietist circle around the brothers Leopold and Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach , took a strictly conservative point of view, with influences from the restoration of Carl Ludwig von Haller and not least his most important academic Teacher and patron Friedrich Carl von Savigny had an impact. As one of the last and most imperturbable representatives of the pre-parliamentary old-class idea, Lancizolle admitted - as in 1831 in the preface to his “Contributions to Politics and Constitutional Law” - “to the sharpest opposition to all absolutist tyranny of clerical or secular rulers and authorities and their servile glossing over as against the many-headed tyranny of false liberalism and against the multiple, strange alliance and confusion of these seemingly irreconcilable elements; in a word: from the bottom of my heart I am an enemy of all revolutionary folly and wrongdoing, in whatever region of society it may move ”. The struggle against the revolutionary movements and tendencies of the epoch was primarily described by Lancizolle as a struggle against the principles of the liberal constitutional movement, against the idea of popular sovereignty , against the illusion of “public opinion” and no less also against “an increased government and Official absolutism ”. Every regent and every people in Germany, on the other hand, should, according to L., "ask about the essential wisdom ... that came from heaven, about the constitutional document given by God of the state of all states, the kingdom of God."

Lancizolle had to experience that the political and legal positions he represented were given up by most of his closest like-minded comrades. L. was unable to take the step towards modern constitutionalism, which such prominent representatives of Prussian conservatism such as EL von Gerlach and Lancizolles Berlin faculty colleague Friedrich Julius Stahl took since 1848 . His gradual withdrawal from teaching and all public functions may be related to this.

In his last major political work, “On Kingship and Estates in Prussia” (1846), Lancizolle fought - by defending the provincial class system in Prussia against its liberal opponents - “... the entire abstract concept of the state of modern political doctrine ... with everything what it brings with it in terms of centralization, codification, the addiction to leveling and deformity, the despotism of laws and the mechanization of the whole legal order ”. On the other hand, he once again emphasized the class-free basis of “genuine German freedom ”, “which has lived through all centuries of history in full harmony with devoted loyalty to the authorities set by God and ... has not yet expired. This freedom, however, is as much opposed to servilism as it is to the vulgar liberalism of our day, thus also to constitutional or republican as well as absolutist despotism. "

Treitschke reviled Lancizolle as a "voice from the grave" and criticized: "The loyal Hallerian spoke, like Schmalz and Marwitz before times, of the various" states "of the royal house, he considered the modern state and its legal unity to be an empty abstraction."

Lancizolle also earned services to the evangelical hymn, u. a. with a new edition of the songs of Paul Gerhardt .

Works

• Dissertatio de praescriptione feudali . Berlin 1820
• History of the formation of the Prussian state. First part. First (and second) division . Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1828 ( e-copy ).
• Fundamentals of the history of the German urban system with special consideration for the Prussian states . Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1829
• Overview of the German imperial status and territorial relations: before the French Revolutionary War , the changes that have occurred since then and the current components of the German Confederation and the federal states . Dümmler, Berlin 1830. ( at Google Books ); Reprinted by Olms, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York, 2003, ISBN 3-487-11896-3
• Contributions to politics and constitutional law. First collection . Berlin 1831
• About the causes, character and consequences of the July days . Berlin 1831.
• About royalty and estates in Prussia . Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1846
• Contributions to the understanding and appreciation of the Prussian state constitution before and since February 3, 1847 . Berlin 1847
• Sources of law for the current state constitution in Prussia including the farewells of the state parliament . Berlin 1847
• The importance of the Roman-German imperial dignity according to the legal views of the Middle Ages . Berlin 1856.
• Gleanings from 80 songs to that of the royal. Consistory of the Province of Brandenburg published as a draft hymn book for evangelical communities together with contributions to the appreciation of the draft . Berlin 1869

literature

• Hartwig Brandt: Rural representation in the German Vormärz. Political thinking in the sphere of influence of the monarchical principle . Neuwied, Berlin 1969
• Hartwig Brandt:  Lancizolle, Karl Wilhelm von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 474 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hellmut Diwald (Ed.): From the Revolution to the North German Confederation. Politics and ideas of the Prussian highly conservative 1848-1866. From the estate of Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach . Vol. 1-2. Goettingen 1970
• Ernst Friedlaender:  Lancizolle, Karl Wilhelm v. Deleuze de . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 583 f.
• EL von Gerlach: Vol. 1-2. Schwerin 1903
• Reinhart Koselleck : Prussia between reform and revolution. General land law, administration and social movement from 1791–1848 . Stuttgart 1975
• H.-C. Kraus: Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach. Political thinking and acting of a Prussian old conservative . Vol. 1-2. Goettingen 1994
• H.-C. Kraus: Lancizolle, Karl Wilhelm v. In: Lexicon of Conservatism . Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 1996
• E. Landsberg: History of German jurisprudence . Vol. III / 2. Munich / Leipzig 1898
• M. Lenz: History of the royal FWU in Berlin. Volumes 1-4. Halle / Saale 1910–1918.
• Hans-Joachim Schoeps (Ed.): From the years of Prussian hardship and renewal. Diaries and letters from the Gerlach brothers and their circle 1805–1820 . Berlin 1963
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , New Prussian Adels Lexicon , p.297 Lancizolle, The Lords of

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Wilhelm von Lancizolle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Carl Wilhelm von Lancizolle  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Béringuier (ed.): The family trees of the members of the French Colony in Berlin. Verlag des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins, Berlin 1887, p. 38.