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