Paul Wigand

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Paul Wigand (born August 10, 1786 in Kassel , † January 4, 1866 in Wetzlar ) was a German lawyer and legal historian .

biography

Paul Wigand was born into a family of theologians and pedagogues in Kassel , where he attended the Friedericianum with Wilhelm Grimm, who was of the same age, and from 1803 studied law and history in Marburg . After the early death of his father, he broke off his studies and briefly became editor of the "Kurhessische Zeitung" in Kassel. In 1808 he became a justice of the peace in Höxter .

Actually, he had wanted to devote himself to the legal academic career, but he was blocked from further advancement because he had not passed the third legal exam. In 1815 he was employed in the now Prussian Höxter as an assessor at the regional and municipal court.

Here he penetrated deeper and deeper into the field of archival work and document research until he finally made suggestions to the Prussian Minister of State von Hardenberg for the rescue and storage of endangered document stocks.

As a part-time job, he organized numerous archives in the area around Höxter and evaluated these sources in historical publications. In 1824 Wigand was instrumental in founding the Society for the History and Antiquities of Westphalia . For the Prussian Westphalia , Paul Wigand was the founder of regional historical research , namely in the field of legal and constitutional history .

Wigand was an extremely fruitful writer not only in the scientific field. From the enthusiastic nature poem to the Andreas Hofer drama, he barely left out a genre. He wrote “War songs of the Germans”, a “Handbook for Justice of the Peace”, a “History of the Medieval Vocal Courts of Westphalia” and the guide “Wetzlar and the Lahn Valley”.

Wigand's friendship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm , whom he even offered asylum in Wetzlar in 1837 after they were expelled from the University of Göttingen as members of the “ Göttinger Sieben ”, was reflected in an exchange of letters that had been preserved from 1802 onwards. Over four hundred letters were exchanged between the Brothers Grimm and Paul Wigand; the two hundred and twenty-two of the Grimms at Wigand have all survived.

Wigand shared his joy in collecting and documenting with the Grimms throughout his life. So it is not surprising that he contributed to the collection “ Des Knaben Wunderhorn ” about fifty folk songs , which he had the maid in his parents' house in Kassel sang . Wigand cultivated his acquaintance with numerous romantic poets: with the Arnims and Brentanos, with Friedrich Carl von Savigny , ETA Hoffmann and August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben .

As a historian, Wigand kept in touch with kindred spirits; he was a member of eighteen antiquity associations.

In 1833 Wigand took the position of city court director in Wetzlar . In 1834 he founded the “Wetzlar History and Antiquity Association”. Between 1840 and 1851 he edited the "Wetzlar Contributions for History and Legal Antiquities" and in 1854 published the "Memorabilia for German Political Science and Jurisprudence, Collected from the Archives of the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar".

As a result of the revolution of 1848, the Wetzlar city court was converted into a larger district court, for whose leadership Wigand was out of the question because he lacked the great state examination. So, at the age of 62, he said goodbye to retire completely to his scholarly office.

Paul Wigand died in Wetzlar in 1866.

Wigand's daughter Pauline (1810-1885) married the lawyer and politician Sylvester Jordan in 1832 .

Works

  • [Pseudonym Veit Weber the Younger:] German war songs , "Germania" (Kassel) 1813
  • [Anonymous:] The river god Rhine and Someone else. A game of joy from the days of redemption. Counterpart to the river god Niemen and Noch Jemand by A. v. Kotzebue , [Warrior], [Marburg] 1814
  • [Pseudonym Paul Treulieb:] Andreas Hofer, leader of the Tyroleans. Patriotic painting , Schaefer, 1816
  • History of the royal abbey of Corvey and the cities of Corvey and Hoexter , Bohn, Höxter 1819
  • The district court of Westphalia. Illustrated from the sources and explained with unprinted documents. A contribution to German state and legal history , Schulz and Wundermann, Hamm 1825; 2nd edition Halle 1893
  • Archive for the history and antiquity of Westphalia . Association for the history and archeology of Westphalia. Edited by Paul Wigand. Meyer, Lemgo 1.1825 / 26 - 7.1835 / 38
  • The services, their origins, nature, species and fates. With special regard to the historical sources of Corvey Abbey. A contribution to German state and legal history . Schulz, Hamm 1828
  • [Pseudonym Walther Hesse:] Emperor Conrad's crusade. Romantic story , Leipzig 1830
  • The provincial rights of the principalities of Paderborn and Corvey in Westphalia together with their legal historical development and justification. Illustrated from the sources by Paul Wigand , 3 volumes, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1832 (digital copies: Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 )
  • The provincial rights of the Principality of Minden, the Counts of Ravensberg and Rietberg, the Rule of Rheda and the Reckenberg Office in Westphalia, along with their legal historical development and justification, presented from the sources by Paul Wigand , 2 volumes, Brockhaus Leipzig 1834
  • Wetzlar's contributions to history and legal antiquities . Edited by Paul Wigand. Association for history and antiquity / Wigand, Wetzlar 1.1836 / 40 - 3.1847 / 51 [?]
  • Corvey's historical sources. A supplement to the critical examination of the Chronicon Corbeiense , Brockhaus, Leipzig 1841
  • Traditiones Corbeienses, ed. by Paul Wigand , Brockhaus, Leipzig 1843
  • Defense of Jordan ’s, an addendum to his self-defense , Bassermann, Mannheim 1844 ( digitized version )
  • The Reich Chamber of Commerce and the witch trials , in: Wetzlar's contributions for history and legal antiquities 3 (1851), pp. 73-82
  • Memorabilia for German political science and jurisprudence, for legal antiquities, customs and habits of the Middle Ages, collected from the archive of the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar by Paul Wigand. In addition to a memorandum on the history, fates, content and significance of that archive , Hirzel, Leipzig 1854 (including: The witch trials , pp. 297–319)
  • Memorable contributions to history and legal antiquities, collected from Westphalian sources and published as a supplement to his earlier works for the history of Westphalia. by Paul Wigand , 1858 (reprint: Zeller, Osnabrück 1968)
  • Lyrical album from the Lahngau, ed. by Paul Wigand , Ricker, Gießen 1858 (songs, poems, elegies, epigrams and distiches by various authors, including Karl Allmenröder, Heinrich Sixt von Armin, Konrad Hofmann von Nauborn and Karl Kohlhauer; however, most of the contributions are by Wigand himself)
  • Wetzlar and the Lahnthal with their romantic surroundings and historical monuments. A guide for foreigners and locals , Rathgeber, Wetzlar 1862
  • Memories from a modest life , not printed, kept in Kassel

literature

  • Gerhard Bartels:  Wigand, Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 89-91.
  • Paul Alpers: Paul Wigand. A friendship with the Brothers Grimm . In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 14, 1964, pp. 271ff.
  • Jürgen Ehrhardt: Paul Wigand as a lawyer and legal historian . (= Hessian research on historical regional and folklore, booklet 8). 1968
  • Herbert Flender: History clubs in Wetzlar (1834-1852 and 1904-1979) . Lecture on the 75th anniversary of the Wetzlarer Geschichtsverein, held on November 19, 1979. In: Mitteilungen des Wetzlarer Geschichtsverein 27, 1980, pp. 113-137
  • Herbert Flender: The best friend of the Brothers Grimm: Paul Wigand (1786-1866) . In: Heimat an Lahn and Dill 114, 1980, pp. 1–3
  • Dietmar Grieser : With the Brothers Grimm through Hesse. A literary local inspection for the 200th birthday of Jacob, Wilhelm and Ludwig Emil Grimm . Frankfurt am Main 1985
  • Heinrich Görnert: “Memorable things from a modest life”. On the 100th anniversary of Dr. Paul Wigand . In: Heimat an Lahn and Dill 13, 128, January 1966
  • Kurt Hinze: The closest friend of the Brothers Grimm. Memories of the historian Paul Wigand (1786-1866) . In: Heimat an Lahn and Dill 186, 1986, pp. 3–4
  • Edmund Stengel (Ed.): Letters from the Brothers Grimm to Paul Wigand . (= Private and official relations of the Brothers Grimm to Hesse; Volume 3). Elwert, Marburg 1910
  • Philipp Strauch: Letters to Paul Wigand from the Brothers Grimm . In: Archiv für deutsche Altertumskunde 24, 1898, pp. 404–409
  • Günter Tiggesbäumker: Paul Wigand and August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in Corvey . In: Corvey-Journal 7 Jg., 1996, H. 1/2, S. 2-6
  • Wolfgang Klötzer:  Jordan, Sylvester. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 603 f. ( Digitized version ). (Secondary entry)

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personal data
SURNAME Wigand, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1866
Place of death Wetzlar