Eduard Paulus

Eduard Paulus the Younger

Eduard Paulus , called the Younger , since 1904 by Paulus , (born October 16, 1837 in Stuttgart , † April 16, 1907 ibid) was a German art historian , archaeologist and poet.

Life

Eduard Paulus was the son of Karl Eduard Paulus .

After graduating from high school, Eduard Paulus studied architecture at the Polytechnic University in Stuttgart, where he became a member of the Corps Stauffia in 1858 and passed the architectural examination in 1859. In 1860/61 he studied art history and classical archeology at the University of Munich . In 1862/63 he spent a year in Italy, especially in Rome . In 1864/65 he worked as an architect for his former teacher Christian Leins in Stuttgart. In 1864 he became secretary of the Württemberg Antiquities Association . In 1866 he became an unskilled worker in the Statistical-Topographical Bureau of the Kingdom of Württemberg in Stuttgart, where he worked as an employee of his father Karl Eduard Paulus (called Eduard Paulus the Elder) in the general description of the state of Württemberg (" Oberamtsbeschreibung "). In 1874 he became a full member of the Bureau, in 1877 Assessor at the Bureau, and in 1885 Finance Councilor. In 1873 he became deputy curator of the patriotic art and antiquity monuments in a secondary position, in 1875 he became a conservator with the title of professor and in 1893 he was head of the state collection of art and antiquity monuments in Stuttgart with the title of senior student councilor. He took early retirement in 1898 for health reasons.

With the series The Art and Antiquity Monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg , he founded the inventory of art monuments in Württemberg. In his work as an archaeologist, his contributions to Limes research and the excavation of the Celtic Heuneburg are particularly noteworthy.

He also worked as a writer.

Eduard Paulus is buried in the Fangelsbach cemetery in Stuttgart (grave no. 11- 7-10-5203).

Works: humorous quatrains

He is the author of the quatrain, which is often quoted by Swabians and especially by Württemberg people :

The ... and the Hegel,
the ... and the Hauff,
that's the rule with us,
that's not even noticeable here.

The first part of the two pairs of rhymes is filled with Schiller , Schelling , Uhland , Mörike , Kerner or Hölderlin as desired , whereas Hegel and Hauff are fixed because of the rhyme. The original version read:

We are the people of poets,
everyone can write poetry,
one only looks at the faces of
ours.

Schelling and Hegel,
Schiller and Hauff,
that is the rule with us,
that is not even noticeable here.

interpretation

Peter Bamm described the quatrain as one of the most arrogant sentences a tribe uses to show off. And in the context of “We can do everything except Standard German” it is often used today.

With Paul this has to be considered in a more differentiated way. The quatrain comes from a wild parody that was published as “Trümmer” from a political comedy “ Götterdämmerung ” in his 1897 “ Arabesques ”. In a Valhalla , which the poet settles on the heath near Jüterbog - already the largest military firing range in Prussia - a lively mixture of characters appears: Germanic gods such as Wodan , Freia and Loki , but also poets and spirits of poets and choirs like the workers 'choir, the founders' choir and the (bismarck-friendly) national liberal choir ... and Die Sieben Schwaben . Uhland's “ The Good Comrade ” is quoted, as is Theobald Kerner's “Emigrant Song”. With the allusion to the "Last Judgment" reference is made to both Schiller and Bengel . Well-known and colloquial anecdotes about Württemberg socialists are also woven in.

Karl Moersch placed these various allusions in a lecture on the political situation in Württemberg within the German Empire after Bismarck's dismissal and the Wilhelmine era. So Paulus is indeed capable of self-irony, typically un-Swabian, but the Württemberg educated bourgeoisie, including its king and also representatives of the current generation, were always aware of an intellectual superiority based on a long Württemberg-specific educational tradition and, as it were, were aware of it, despite all power-political inferiority compensatory, also made known to the displeasure of their counterparts.

Awards and honors

Monument to "the old man from Hohenneuffen" on this very mountain

• 1882 great gold medal for art and science
• 1892 Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown with the insignia of the lion
• 1904 Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, with which the personal title of nobility was associated (Eduard von Paulus).
• In 1909 a memorial for Paul created by Georg Rheineck was set up on the Hohenneuffen .

Publications (selection)

• "From my life. Poems" (1867)
• "Pictures from Germany - Journey through Germany" (1869)
• "A trip to Rome. Lecture on the best of the Olga Sanatorium" (1870)
• with Robert Stieler : From Swabia. Descriptions in words and pictures . Bonz, Stuttgart 1887 ( digitized version ).
• "The Cistercian Abbey of Maulbronn" (1889)
• "Arabesques" (1897)
• "Heimatkunst. New songs and elegies" (1902, online  - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Strobel: Eduard Paulus the Younger and Franz Xaver Kraus. The beginnings of the inventory of art monuments in Württemberg and Baden . In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg, Vol. 17, Issue 2, 1988, pp. 43–52 ( digitized version ( memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )).
2. ^ Campaign slogan
3. ↑ Karl Moersch: "Swabia - Land and People, Myth and Reality" . In: "Circular letter of the Gebhardt - Paulus - Hoffmann family community" No. 42, 2001.
4. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1907, p. 38.

literature

• Oskar Paret , Otto von Güntter : Eduard Paulus the Younger . In: Schwäbische Lebensbilder Vol. 5, Stuttgart 1950, pp. 440–457 (with list of publications).
• Richard Strobel : Eduard Paulus the Younger, second state curator in Württemberg, died 100 years ago on April 16, 1907. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 36th year 2007, issue 2, pp. 122-130 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Eduard Paulus  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Eduard Paulus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Eduard Paulus in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Eduard Paulus in the Internet Archive
• Eduard Paulus on s-line.de