After working for the "General-Sekretair" of the Grand-Ducal-Bergian Minister of Finance (Jacques Claude Beugnot, latterly Johann Peter Josef Bislinger [de]) as "bureau chief" and had also done military service in the German campaign of 1813 as a non-commissioned officer of the 11th Hussar Regiment,[2] he was appointed in 1816 as the 6th registrar of the Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf, founded in 1815.
These documents, soon to be called the "Scotti'sche Sammlung", span a period from the Middle Ages "to the advent of the royal Prussian governments in 1816".
They provide information on significant parts of the public law of the Rhine Province and in Westphalia assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia in the Vienna Congress Act, in particular the Land and Staatsrecht of former Landesherrs, which continued to have an effect into the 19th century.
Since a complete reprint of the entire written material was not possible, he only included the more important documents as well as those that were still valid at his time in their full length.
[12] In 1836, the lawyer and writer Anton Fahne published Die Düsseldorfer Maler-Schule in den Jahren 1834, 1835 und 1836.
This writing, a pamphlet with an idiosyncratic combination of satire and statistics on the origins of artists from the Düsseldorf Academy and their successes, was, however, hardly met with approval.
The Leipzig-based Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung [de] found Fahne's accusation "so childishly unjust in nature that it deserves no refutation at all".
[16] Fahne responded to Scotti's remarks the same year by writing Meine Schrift "die Düsseldorfer Maler-Schule" und ihre Gegner.