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BEHR, WILLIAM JOSEPH (1775–1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 657 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEHR, See also:WILLIAM See also:JOSEPH (1775–1851) , See also:German publicist and writer, was See also:born at Salzheim on the 26th of See also:August 1775. He studied See also:law at See also:Wurzburg and See also:Gottingen, became See also:professor of public law in the university of Wurzburg in 1799, and in 1819 was sent as a See also:deputy to the Landtag of See also:Bavaria. Having associated himself with the party of reform, he was regarded with suspicion by the Bavarian See also:king See also:Maximilian I. and the See also:court party, although favoured for a See also:time by Maximilian's son, the future King See also:Louis I. In 1821 he was compelled to give up his professorship, but he continued to agitate for reform, and in 1831 the king refused to recognize his See also:election to the Landtag. A speech delivered by Behr in 1832 was regarded as seditious, and he was arrested. In spite of his assertion of See also:loyalty to the principle of See also:monarchy he was detained in custody, and in 1836 was found guilty of seeking to injure the king. He then admitted his offence; but he was not released from See also:prison until 1839, and the next nine years of his See also:life were passed under See also:police super-See also:vision at See also:Passau and See also:Regensburg. In 1848 he obtained a See also:free See also:pardon and a sum of See also:money as See also:compensation, and was sent to the German See also:national See also:assembly which met at See also:Frankfort in May of that See also:year. He passed his remaining days at See also:Bamberg, where he died on the 1st of August 1851. Behr's See also:chief writings are: Darstellung der Bedilrfnisse, Wiinsche and Hoffnungen deutscher Nation (See also:Aschaffenburg, 1816); See also:Die Verfassung and Verwaltung See also:des Striates (See also:Nuremberg, 1811–1812); Von den rechtlichen Grenzen der Einwirkung des Deutschen Bundes auf die Verfassung, Gesetzgebung, and Rechlspflege seiner Gliederstaaten (See also:Stuttgart, 1820).

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