International Law and Justice Working Papers - IILJ
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During his approximately twenty years of teaching in Dorpat, Bulmerincq continued to actively<br />
participate in the public life <strong>and</strong> contribute to the education of the popular masses in the Baltic<br />
provinces. Maybe to express the practical side in him that his father would have wished to have<br />
been expressed in an even more determined fashion, Bulmerincq established in Dorpat in 1863 a<br />
magazine dedicated to economic issues, “Baltische Wochenschrift für L<strong>and</strong>wirhtschaft,<br />
Gewerbfleiss und H<strong>and</strong>el Liv-, Est- und Curl<strong>and</strong>s”. He remained the editor-in-chief of the<br />
magazine for the first three years <strong>and</strong> organized the first agricultural congress <strong>and</strong> the first<br />
exposition of the products of small industry (Gewerbfleiss) in the Baltic provinces. 29<br />
While being professor of international law, Bulmerincq did not neglect the particular law of the<br />
Baltic provinces. In fact, as the effort of Russification in the Baltic provinces were consolidating,<br />
the preoccupation with the German-influenced law of the Baltic provinces acquired a political<br />
meaning, became a patriotic act. 30 Bulmerincq emphasized the historic importance of (German)<br />
particular law in the Russian Baltic sea provinces 31 <strong>and</strong> served as one of the editors of the<br />
collection of the sources of this law. 32<br />
As international lawyer, Bulmerincq was known not only as prolific writer but also as an active<br />
member of Institut de droit international. When Institut de droit international was established in<br />
Gent in 1873, Bulmerincq was also invited to attend. However, the invitation did not reach him<br />
in due time <strong>and</strong> he could not be present at the inaugural session. In a letter sent to the Institut he<br />
wrote that he was glad to become a member of the institute “d’abord parce qu’il y voit une<br />
occasion de travailler en communauté avec des hommes, que depuis longtemps il a souhaité de<br />
29 August v. Bulmerincq, in: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon, Leipzig, 1901, B<strong>and</strong> 3, p. 688.<br />
30 Marju Luts, Juhuslik ja isamaaline: F.G. von Bunge provintsiaalõigusteadus, Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2001.<br />
31<br />
Bulmerincq, Die Rechtsbildung und das Rechtsstudium der Ostseeprovinzen Russl<strong>and</strong>s, 22 Baltische<br />
Monatsschrift 1873, pp. 68-78.<br />
32 Friedrich Georg von Bunge, Hermann Hildebr<strong>and</strong>, Philipp Schwartz, August von Bulmerincq, Leonid Arbosow<br />
d.Ä. (Hg.) Liv- est und kurländisches Urkundenbuch nebst Regesten.