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HINSCHIUS, PAUL (1835–1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 515 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HINSCHIUS, See also:PAUL (1835–1898) , See also:German jurist, was the son of See also:Franz Sales See also:August Hinschius (1807–1877), and was See also:born in See also:Berlin on the 25th of See also:December 1835. His See also:father was not only a scientific jurist, but also a lawyer in large practice in Berlin. After working under his father, Hinschius in 1852 began to study See also:jurisprudence at See also:Heidelberg and Berlin, the teacher who had most See also:influence upon him being See also:Aemilius See also:Ludwig See also:Richter (18o8–1864), to whom he afterwards ascribed the See also:great revival of the study of ecclesiastical See also:law in See also:Germany. In 1855 Hinschius took the degree of See also:doctor utriusque See also:juris, and in 18J9 was admitted to the juridical See also:faculty of Berlin. In 1863 he went as See also:professor extraordinarius to See also:Halle, returning in the same capacity to Berlin in 1865; and in 1868 became professor ordinarius at the university of See also:Kiel, which he represented in the Prussian Upper See also:House (187o–1871). He also assisted his father in editing the Preussische Anwaltszeitung from 1862 to 1866 and the Zeitschrift See also:fur Gesetzgebung and Rechtspflege in Preussen from 1867 to 1871. In 1872 he was appointed professor ordinarius of ecclesiastical law at Berlin. In the same See also:year he took See also:part in the conferences of the See also:ministry of ecclesiastical affairs, which issued in the famous " See also:Falk See also:laws." In connexion with the developments of the Kulturkampf which resulted from the " Falk laws," he wrote several See also:treatises: e.g. on " The Attitude of the German See also:State Governments towards the Decrees of the Vatican See also:Council " (1871), on " The Prussian See also:Church Laws of 1873 " (1873), " The Prussian Church Laws of the years 1874 and 1875 " (1875), and " The Prussian Church Law of 14th See also:July 188o " (1881). He sat in the Reichstag as a See also:National Liberal from 1872 to 1878, and again in r881 and 1882, and from 1889 onwards he represented the university of Berlin in the Prussian Upper House. He died on the 13th of December 1808. The two great See also:works by which Hinschius established his fame are the Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianae et capitula Angilrantni (2 parts, See also:Leipzig, 1863) and Das Kirchenrecht der Katholiken and Protestanten in Deutschland, vols. i.-vi. (Berlin, 1869–1877).

The first of these, for which during 186o and 1861 he had gathered materials in See also:

Italy, See also:Spain, See also:France, See also:England, See also:Scotland, See also:Ireland, See also:Holland and See also:Belgium, was the first See also:critical edition of the False See also:Decretals. His most monumental See also:work, however, is the Kirchenrecht, which remains incomplete. The six volumes actually published (See also:System See also:des katholischen Kirchenrechts) See also:cover only See also:book i. of the work as planned; they are devoted to an exhaustive See also:historical and See also:analytical study of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:hierarchy and its See also:government of the church. The work is planned with See also:special reference to Germany; but in fact its See also:scheme embraces the whole of the Roman Catholic organization in its principles and practice. Unfortunately even this part of the work remainsincomplete; two chapters of book i. and the whole of book ii., which was to have dealt with " the rights and duties of the members of the hierarchy," remain unwritten; the most notable omission is that of the ecclesiastical law in relation to the See also:regular orders. Incomplete as it is, however, the Kirchenrechi remains a work of the highest scientific authority. See also:Epoch-making in its application of the See also:modern historical method to the study of ecclesiastical law in its theory and practice, it has become the See also:model for the younger school of canonists. See the articles s.ae by E. Seckel in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopddie (3rd ed., 1900), and by See also:Ulrich Steitz in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographic, vol. 50 (Leipzig, 1905).

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