Peter Friedrich Rudolf Faull

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Peter Friedrich Rudolf Faull (born October 4, 1793 in Schwerin ; † December 18, 1863 there ) was a German administrative lawyer and the founder of statistics in Mecklenburg .

Life

Faull was the son of the lawyer Rudolf Karl Peter Faull and grandson of Ernst August Rudloff . He attended the cathedral school in Schwerin from 1805 to 1809 and the Katharineum in Lübeck from 1809 to Easter 1811 . He studied law at the University of Göttingen and became a member of the Corps Vandalia Göttingen. In 1814 he became an attorney in the Schwerin law firm and in 1819 government secretary. Faull was a member of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Lottery Commissioner from 1820 to 1840. In 1822 he became secretary of the Mecklenburg mortgage chamber. From 1823 to 1863 he was the editor of the Mecklenburg State Calendar , which his uncle Friedrich August von Rudloff had founded. He was promoted to the chancellery in 1829 and to the secret chancellery in 1840. Faull was from 1835 a member of the censorship college and from 1844 director of the Schwerin savings institution. From 1851 he was head of the statistical office of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and thus pioneer of state statistics in the Grand Duchy. His publications relate primarily to the field of statistics.

Faull was a founding member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology in 1835 and its treasurer for many years, and from 1860 also vice-president of the association.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2680 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907, p. 21
  2. Erich Bauer , Friedrich August Pietzsch: Criticals on the early history of the Göttingen and Heidelberg Vandalia in: Yearbook Einst und Jetzt Volume 10 (1965), pp. 108-124 (p. 121, No. 63)