International Law and Justice Working Papers - IILJ
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connaître, et ensuite parce qu’il y voit un plus large champ ouvert á ses efforts pour contribuer á<br />
fonder sur le droit le bonheur des peuples. » 33 He was subsequently considered member of the<br />
Institut since its foundation. 34<br />
Upon his retirement from the University of Dorpat in 1875, Bulmerincq moved to Wiesbaden,<br />
Germany. During his professorship in Dorpat he had maintained close ties with Germany <strong>and</strong><br />
spent most of his summer vacations there. It has been speculated whether his rapid move to<br />
Germany after his retirement can inter alia be explained by his dissatisfaction with the tightening<br />
grip of the Russification in the Baltic provinces. As retired professor in Wiesbaden, Bulmerincq<br />
continued to publish extensively, both in newspapers such as Augsburg’s “Allgemeine Zeitung”<br />
<strong>and</strong> in legal periodicals. As his letters to the former faculty colleagues in Dorpat demonstrate, he<br />
continued to keep in touch with developments in his native Baltic provinces. In 1877,<br />
Bulmerincq started an article in „Baltische Monatsschrift“ with the following sentence: „Wenn<br />
ich auch nicht mehr im Inl<strong>and</strong>e für das Inl<strong>and</strong> wirke, so folge ich dennoch aus der Ferne mit<br />
vollem Interesse dessen Entwickelung und erkenne durch Vergleich mit Zuständen des Ausl<strong>and</strong>es<br />
Vorzüge und Mängel der Heimath nur um so mehr und unbefangener.“ 35<br />
In other words,<br />
Bulmerincq made it clear that one could work for one’s home country even when living outside<br />
of it – for him as Baltic German, Inl<strong>and</strong> always remained Inl<strong>and</strong>, even when living in Germany.<br />
Bulmerincq acquired a second life as international lawyer in the framework of the work of<br />
Institut de droit international. On the pages of Revue, he stepped up as active discussant <strong>and</strong><br />
33 G. Rolin-Jaequemyns, Revue…, tome VI, 1874, p. 176.<br />
34 See e.g. Revue, tome ?, p. 150.<br />
35 Bulmerincq, Wann wird in Liv- und Estl<strong>and</strong> eine Volkszählung stattfinden?, Baltische Monatsschrift 1877, B<strong>and</strong><br />
XXV, S. 345-349 at 345. Criticizing indirectly the politics of the Russian central government that had postponed the<br />
census in the Baltic provinces.