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GEORG LUDWIG VON MAURER (1790-1872)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 908 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . In 1829 he returned to official See also:life, and was soon offered an important See also:post . In 1832, when See also:Otto (See also:Otho), son of See also:Louis I., See also:king of See also:Bavaria, was chosen to fill the See also:throne of See also:Greece, a See also:council of regency was nominated during his minority, and See also:Maurer was appointed a member . He applied himself energetically to the task of creating institutions adapted to the requirements of a See also:modern civilized community; but See also:grave difficulties soon arose and Maurer was recalled in 1834, when he returned to Munich . This loss was a serious one for Greece . Maurer was the ablest, most energetic and most liberal-minded member of the council, and it was through his enlightened efforts that Greece obtained a revised penal See also:code, See also:regular tribunals and an improved See also:system of See also:civil See also:procedure . Soon after his recall he published Das griechische See also:Volk in offentlicher, kirchlicher; and privatrechtlicher Beziehung vor and See also:mach dent Freiheitskampfe bis zum 31 Juli 1834 (Heidelberg, 1835—1836), a useful source of See also:information for the See also:history of Greece before Otto ascended the throne, and also for the labours of the council of regency to the See also:time of the author's recall . After the fall of the See also:ministry of Karl von See also:Abel (1788—1859) in 1847, he became See also:chief Bavarian See also:minister and See also:head of the departments of See also:foreign affairs and of See also:justice, but was overthrown in the same See also:year . He died at Munich on the 9th of May 1872 .

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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