Karl Schildener (26 August 1777 – 28 December 1843) was a German lawyer, legal historian and university lecturer.

Life and achievements

Schildener was born on 26 August 1777 in

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...

in what was then

Swedish Pomerania Swedish Pomerania ( sv, Svenska Pommern; german: Schwedisch-Pommern) was a dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held ...

. His father was the council pharmacist Johann Karl Schildener (1739-1803), his mother Christina Liboria (1752-1824) a daughter of

Balzer Peter Vahl Balzer Peter Vahl (28 August 1718 in Lassan – 1792) was burgomaster of Greifswald. He founded the Greifswald merchant family Wahl He became a merchant on 18 April 1744 in the first estate citizens of Greifswald. The merchant belongs from 1747 t ...

, mayor of Greifswald from 1788 to 1792. Already in 1792 he was enrolled as a student of law at the

University of Greifswald The University of Greifswald (; german: Universität Greifswald), formerly also known as “Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald“, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pom ...

, from 1796 he studied at the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

. There he received his doctorate in law in 1798. In 1800 he began studying Swedish law at

Uppsala University Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in opera ...

. In 1802 he was appointed

adjunct professor An adjunct professor is a type of academic appointment in higher education who does not work at the establishment full-time. The terms of this appointment and the job security of the tenure vary in different parts of the world, however the genera ...

at the University of Greifswald, as teacher of Swedish Law. In 1806 Schildener was appointed to a Swedish commission to translate Swedish legal texts into German so that they could be adopted for Swedish Pomerania. The commission, in which Schildener collaborated with

Ernst Moritz Arndt Ernst Moritz Arndt (26 December 1769 – 29 January 1860) was a German nationalist historian, writer and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany. Arndt had to flee to Swe ...

, first worked in

Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

and then in Stockholm until 1807. The main translation "The Swedish Reich's Law, Approved and Adopted at the Reichstag in 1734" was published in 1807 in Stockholm, but was no longer put into effect in Pomerania. When the work was completed, Swedish Pomerania was occupied by France, so that Schildener could not return to Greifswald until 1809. In 1810 Schildener became associate professor and in 1814 full professor at the University of Greifswald, later also rector of the university. In 1818 he published for the first time in Germany the Swedish folk law of the island

Gotland Gotland (, ; ''Gutland'' in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the ...

. Since the 1820s his health has deteriorated. On 28 December 1843 he died in Greifswald at age 66.

Family

From 1803 Schildener was married to Ingeborg Juliane Elisabeth Muhrbeck (1784-1824), a daughter of the philosophy professor

Johann Christoph Muhrbeck Johann Christoph Muhrbeck (7 January 1733 – 15 January 1805) was a Swedish Pomeranian philosopher. Early life and education Born in Lund, the son of the theologian Lorenz Murbeck, superintendent in Karlskrona, Muhrbeck was first taught by a ...

. The two had twelve children, among them were: * Juliana Karolina Schildener (born 1806), married to

Georg Friedrich Schömann Georg Friedrich Schömann (28 June 1793 – 25 March 1879), was a German classical scholar of Swedish heritage.E-Kopie
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schildener, Karl Academic staff of the University of Greifswald 19th-century jurists Legal historians 1777 births 1843 deaths People from Greifswald

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