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GEORG See also:LUDWIG VON See also:MAURER (1790-1872)
, See also:German statesman and historian, son of a See also:Protestant pastor, was See also:born at Erpolzheim, near See also:Durkheim, in the Rhenish See also:Palatinate, on the 2nd of See also:November 1790
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Educated at See also:Heidelberg, he went in 1812 to reside in See also:Paris, where he entered upon a systematic study of the See also:ancient legal institutions of the Germans
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Returning to See also:Germany in 1814, he received an See also:appointment under the Bavarian See also:government, and afterwards filled several important See also:official positions
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In 1824 he published at Heidelberg his Geschichte See also:des altgermanischen and namentlich altbayrischen offentlichmundlichen Gerichtsverfahrens, which obtained the first See also:prize of the See also:academy of See also:Munich, and in 1826 he became See also:professor in the university of Munich
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In 1829 he returned to official See also:life, and was soon offered an important See also:post
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In 1832, when See also:Otto (See also:Otho), son of See also: His only son, See also:Conrad von Maurer (1823—1902), was a Scandinavian See also:scholar of some repute, and like his See also:father was a professor at the university of Munich . Maurer's most important contribution to history is a See also:series of books on the See also:early institutions of the Germans . These are: Einleitung zur Geschichte der See also:Mark-, See also:Hof-, Dorf-, and Stadtverfassung and der offentlichen Gewalt (Munich, 1854) ; Geschichte der Markenverfassung in Deutschland (See also:Erlangen, 1856) ; Geschichte der FronhOfe, der Bauernhofe, and der Hofverfassung in Deutschland (Erlangen, 1862–1863) ; Geschichte der Dorfverfassung in See also:Deutsch-See also:land (Erlangen, 1865–1866) ; and Geschichte der Stadteverfassung in Deutschland (Erlangen, 1869–1871) . These See also:works are still important authorities for the early history of the Germans . Among other works are, Das Stadt- and Landrechtsbuch Ruprechts von See also:Freising, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Schwabenspiegels (See also:Stuttgart, 1839); Uber See also:die Freipflege (plegium liberale), and die Entstehung der grossen and kleinen See also:Jury in See also:England (Munich, 1848); and Uber die deutsche Reichsterritorial- and Rechtsgeschichte (183o) . See K . T. von See also:Heigel, Denkwiirdigkeiten des bayrischen Staatsrats G . L. von Maurer (Munich, 1903) . |
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