August von Bulmerincq
Upon his retirement in 1874, he moved to Wiesbaden in present-day Germany and was given the char of international law at Heidelberg University, which he maintained until his death.
He insisted on the separation between law and politics, following in the liberal tradition of Friedrich Carl von Savigny.
[3] Many of his ancestors had served in the administration of the Russian Empire as civil servants, officers, scholars, doctors and architects.
[2] August von Bulmerincq moved to Tartu (at the time known mainly by its German name Dorpat) and began studying law in 1841.
He became a candidate of law in 1847 and then briefly attended Heidelberg University, before returning to his native land in 1848 on account of the Revolutions of 1848.
[4] During his time as professor, a number of works focused on the theory and history of international law were produced under his supervision; among his students were statistician and economist Witold Załęski [pl].
[8] August von Bulmerincq belonged to an influential, early generation of scholars of international law, and contributed to forming the modern specialisation and understanding of the discipline.
[14] He was opposed to contemporary attempts at Russification in the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire, but did not engage himself in this conflict very actively.
[15] Bulmerincq considered Baltic Germans to be culturally superior to Estonians and Latvians, though he admitted that wider inclusion of non-Germans was a necessity, and had an essentially colonial attitude to these peoples.
[17] He viewed the German settlement and Germanisation of the Baltic lands during the Middle Ages as positive, and expressed nostalgia and disappointment for the lost unity of Old Livonia.
