Pauli

Pauli, REINHOLD, a no less learned than genial historian of England, was born in Berlin, 25th May 1823, studied at Bonn, next paid a long visit for purposes of study to England and Scotland, spent the year 1848 at Oxford, and acted from 1849 till 1852 as private secretary to Bunsen. In 1855 he returned to Germany and habilitated at Bonn, whence he was called to a chair at Rostock in 1857. He obeyed a call to Tübingen in 1859, but during the war of 1866 he was punished by being sent to the little seminar at Schöntal for an article on the policy of Württemberg in the Preussische Jahrbücher. But he soon left this place, and was appointed to a chair at Marburg in 1867, at Göttingen in 1870. He died at Bremen, 3d June 1882. Pauli's life-long studies were devoted to English history, and the value of his work had long been known to students before it was recognised by the D.C.L. degree conferred by Oxford in 1874. His excellent book on Alfred (1851; Eng. trans. 1852) induced Lappenberg to commit to him the task of continuing the Geschichte von England in the great series of Heeren and Uckert. Pauli's part (vols. 3-5, Gotha, 1853-58) begins with Henry II., and comes down to the accession of Henry VIII., and while portions of its ground have been more fully treated since, remains still the best history of mediæval England. Other works are Bilder aus Alt-England (1860; Eng. trans. 1861), Geschichte Englands seit den Friedensschlüssen von 1814 und 1815 (3 vols. 1864-75), Simon von Montfort (1867; Eng. trans. 1876), Aufsätze zur englischen Geschichte (1869; new series, 1883), besides an admirable edition of Gower's Confessio Amantis (3 vols. 1856).