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FRIEDRICH JULIUS STAHL (1802-1861)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 760 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIEDRICH See also:JULIUS See also:STAHL (1802-1861)  , See also:German ecclesiastical lawyer and politician, was See also:born at See also:Munich on the ,6th of See also:January 1802, of Jewish parentage . Although brought up strictly in the Jewish See also:religion, he was allowed to attend the gymnasium, and, as a result of its See also:influence, was at the See also:age of nineteen baptized into the Lutheran See also:Church . To this faith he clung with See also:earnest devotion and persistence until his See also:death . Having studied See also:law at See also:Wurzburg, See also:Heidelberg and See also:Erlangen, See also:Stahl, on taking the degree of See also:doctor See also:juris, established himself as privatdozent in Munich, was appointed (1832) See also:ordinary See also:professor of law at Wurzburg, and in 1840 received the See also:chair of ecclesiastical law and polity at See also:Berlin . Here he immediately made his See also:mark as an ecclesiastical lawyer, and was appointed a member of the first chamber of the See also:synod . Elected in 185o a member of the See also:short-lived See also:Erfurt See also:parliament, he bitterly opposed the See also:idea of German federation . Stahl See also:early See also:fell under the influence of See also:Schelling, and at the latter's insistence, began in 1827 his See also:great See also:work: See also:Die Philosophie See also:des Rechts nach geschichtlicherAnsicht (an See also:historical view of the See also:philosophy of law), in which he bases all law and See also:political See also:science upon See also:Christian See also:revelation, denies rationalistic doctrines, and, as a See also:deduction from this principle, maintains that a See also:state church must be strictly See also:confessional . This position he further elucidated in his Der christliche Statt and See also:rein Verhdltniss zum Deismus and Judenthum (The Christian State and its relation to See also:Deism and Judaism; 1874) . As Oberkirchenrath (synodal councillor) Stahl used all his influence to weaken the Evangelical See also:Union (i.e. that See also:compromise between the Calvinist and Lutheran doctrines which is the essence of the Prussian Evangelical Church) and to strengthen the influence of the Lutheran Church (cf . Die Lutherische Kirche and die Union, 1859) . The Prussian- See also:minister von See also:Bunsen attacked, while See also:King See also:Frederick See also:William IV. supported, Stahl in his ecclesiastical policy, and the Prussian Evangelical Church would probably have been dissolved had not the regency of See also:Prince William (afterwards the See also:emperor William I.) supervened in 1858 . Stahl's influence fell under the new regime, and, resigning his seat on the synod, he retired into private See also:life and died at Briickenau on the loth of See also:August 1861 .

See " Biographic von Stahl," in Unsere Zeit, vi . 419—447 (See also:

anonymous, but probably by See also:Gneist) ; Pernice, See also:Savigny, Stahl (anonymous; Berlin, 1862) .

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