Paul von Lilienfeld
Paul Frommhold Ignatius of Lilienfeld , 1883 Lilienfeld-Toal ( Russian Павел Фёдорович Лилиенфельд-Тоаль / Pavel Fedorovich Lilijenfeld-Toal ; French: Paul de Lilienfeld * 1829 in Bialystok , † 11. January 1903 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian sociologist and statesman of Baltic German origin.
Life
For 17 years, from 1868 to 1885, he was Governor of Courland and then Senator of the Russian Empire .
In addition, he dealt with basic questions of social science. In 1897/1898 he was president of the Institut International de Sociologie in Paris. Lilienfeld is considered the "most typical and extreme representative of the biological school of sociology", to which Herbert Spencer and René Worms also belonged. Lilienfeld applied Virchow's cell theory directly to the formation and growth of human union. In his main social science work, he designed a pathology of society, which he countered with social therapy in the medical sense.
Awards
For his services he was awarded several Russian orders decorated : with the Order of Saint Stanislaus , with the Order of St. Vladimir and the Order of St. Anne .
Origin and family
Paul Frommhold came from the Baltic noble family von Lilienfeld . By Russian ukase it was written out from 1883 with the name "Lilienfeld-Toal". His father was the Russian colonel and real state councilor Otto Friedrich von Lilienfeld (1796-1870), who was married to Constance d'Auvray. Paul Frommhold married Countess Carolina Charlotte Mellin (1833–1904) in 1858, her descendants were:
- Anna Carolina von Lilienfeld-Toal (* 1859) ∞ Georg Alexander Behr (* 1857), district aristocratic marshal in Courland
- Otto Ferdinand Charles von Lilienfeld-Toal (1860–1902), heir to Toal
- Paula Natalie (* 1863)
- Paul Alexander von Lilienfeld-Toal (1864–1915), land manager in Russia
- Anatole Charles Maurice von Lilienfeld-Toal (* 1865, † 1931 in Kiel ), Chamberlain , Governor of the Penza district , Real State Councilor in Russia, Lecturer of the Russian language at the University of Kiel ∞ Countess Constance Kunigunde Rantzau (* 1876)
- Karl Konstantin von Lilienfeld-Toal (* 1868, † 1930 in Belgrade), Real State Councilor in Russia
- Georg August von Lilienfeld-Toal (1870–1929), Governor of the Petersburg District, Real Councilor of State in Russia ∞ Countess Marie Urussow (* 1889)
literature
- Richard Martinus Emge: Lilienfeld-Toal, Paul von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 557 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Martha Mierendorff: Lilienfeld, Paul von. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 250.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Paul von Lilienfeld. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martha Mierendorff: Lilienfeld, Paul von. In: Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 1, p. 250.
- ^ La pathologie sociale , 1896
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lilienfeld, Paul von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Лилиенфельд-Тоаль, Павел Фёдорович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian sociologist and statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belostok |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1903 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |