Theodor Paur

Theodor Paur (born May 2, 1815 in Neisse ; † August 14, 1892 in Sellin on Rügen ) was a German teacher, historian, philologist and member of parliament.

He studied history in Wroclaw, where he in 1842 with a thesis on John Sleidanus received his doctorate. In 1843 he got a job as a senior teacher in Neisse, but in 1846 he was suspended for political reasons. In 1848 he took part in the Frankfurt National Assembly in the Paulskirche as a member of his hometown and became a member of the Commission for Education and Public Education (established on July 7, 1848), and in the same year his suspension was lifted again. In the following years he worked at the teachers' college in Breslau and was a member of the state parliament for the Görlitz constituency and city council from 1862 to 1879.

Paur published numerous historical and literary works. He made a name for himself in particular with his five-volume edition of the works of his friend Friedrich von Sallet and his contributions to Dante research, in which he was considered one of the outstanding German representatives after the deaths of Carl Witte and Ludwig Gottfried Blanc . In 1858 he became an honorary member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences , in which he then served as vice-president from 1860 to 1890, for which he secured the estate of Leopold Schefer (whose “Homer's Apotheosis” he had published in 1858) and to which he promised an important collection of issues Dante and to his Italian contemporaries.

Web links

Wikisource: Theodor Paur  - Sources and full texts

• Theodor Paur ( Memento from November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in the Biographical Lexicon of Upper Lusatia
• Theodor Paur: On the sources of Dante's life story , Heyn'sche Buchhandlung (E. Remer), Leipzig 1862 (digitized from Google Books, last accessed October 17, 2007)
• Theodor Paur's estate in the archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences