Karl Schildener

Karl Schildener

Karl Schildener (born August 26, 1777 in Greifswald ; † December 28, 1843 in Greifswald) was a German lawyer, legal historian and university professor.

Life and accomplishments

Memorial plaque for Karl Schildener in Domstrasse 10 in Greifswald

Karl Schildener was born on August 26, 1777 in Greifswald in what was then Swedish Pomerania . His father was the council pharmacist Johann Karl Schildener (1739-1803), his mother Christina Liboria (1752-1824), a daughter of the Balzer Peter Vahl , Greifswald mayor from 1788 to 1792. Already in 1792 he became a student of law at the University of Greifswald enrolled , from 1796 he studied at the University of Jena . There he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. In 1800 he began studying Swedish law at Uppsala University . In 1802 he became an adjunct teacher for Swedish law at the University of Greifswald .

In 1806 Schildener was appointed to a Swedish commission that was supposed to translate Swedish legal texts into German so that they could be adopted for Swedish Pomerania. The commission, in which Schildener worked with Ernst Moritz Arndt , was initially active in Lund and then until 1807 in Stockholm . The main translation, "The Swedish Imperial Law, approved and adopted at the Reichstag in 1734" was published in Stockholm in 1807, but no longer came into force in Pomerania. When the work was completed, Swedish Pomerania was occupied by France, so that Schildener could not return to Greifswald until 1809.

Schildener became associate professor in 1810 and full professor at the University of Greifswald in 1814, and later also rector of the university. In 1818 he published the Swedish people's law on Gotland Island for the first time in Germany .

Since the 1820s, his health deteriorated. He died in Greifswald on December 28, 1843.

family

Karl Schildener was married to Ingeborg Juliane Elisabeth Muhrbeck (1784–1824), a daughter of the philosophy professor Johann Christoph Muhrbeck , since 1803 . The two had twelve children, including:

• Juliana Karolina Schildener (* 1806), married to Georg Friedrich Schömann , classical philologist in Greifswald
• Peter Christian Hermann Schildener (1817–1860), professor of philosophy in Greifswald

Publications

• On the Swedish Constitution on the occasion of the last government reform on June 6, 1809 . 1811.
• Guta-Lagh. This is: Gothland's old legal book. Published in the original language and a retrieved old German translation. Provided with a new German translation and annotations. Ernst Mauritius, Greifswald 1818 ( e-copy ).

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• Dirk Alvermann : Karl Schildener (1777-1843) . In: Birte Frenssen, Uwe Schröder (Ed.): The birth of romanticism. Friedrich, Runge, Klinkowström . Pommersches Landesmuseum Foundation, Greifswald 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806294-6-1 , pp. 57-62.
• Dietmar Gohlisch: Jacob Wilde, Karl Schildener and "The Swedish Empire's Law" . In: Walter Baumgartner , Hans Fix (Ed.): Work on Scandinavian Studies. 12th workshop for German-speaking Scandinavian studies, September 16-23, 1995 in Greifswald . Fassbaender, Vienna 1996, pp. 328–341.
• Erich Gülzow : Karl Schildener. In: Walter Menn (Ed.): Pommersche Lebensbilder . Volume 4. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Graz 1966, pp. 267-281.
• Adolf Häckermann :  Schildener, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 204-207.
• Dirk Schleinert : Karl Schildener as translator of the Swedish code of law 1806/1807. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 93 NF (2007), ISSN  0067-3099 , pp. 185-192.

Web links

• Literature about Karl Schildener in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Gülzow : Home letters Ernst Moritz Arndt. In: Rügisch-Pommerscher Geschichtsverein (ed.): Pommersche Jahrbücher 3rd supplementary volume, Julius Abel, Greifswald 1919, p. 235, p. 252

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Ernst Parow	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1815	Lorenz Wilhelm von Haselberg