bishop, was born at Bordeaux in A.D. 353. His father, pracfectus praclorio in Gaul, was a man of great wealth, who entrusted his son's education, with the best of results, to Ausonius. In 378 Paulinus was raised to the rank of consul suffectus, and in the following year he appears to have been sent as consularis into Campania. It was at this period, while present at a festival of St Felix of Nola, that he entered upon his lifelong devotion to the cult of that saint. He had married a wealthy Spanish lady named Therasia; this happy union was clouded by the death in infancy of their only child—a bereavement which, combined with the many disasters by which the empire was being visited, did much to foster in them that world-weariness to which they afterwards gave such emphatic expression. From Campania Paulinus returned to his native place and came into correspondence or personal intimacy with men like Martin of Tours and Ambrose of JVIilan, and ultimately (about 389) he was formally received into the church by bishop Delphinus of Bordeaux, whence shortly afterwards he withdrew with his wife beyond the Pyrenees. The asceticism of Paulinus and his liberality towards the poor soon brought him into great repute; and while he was spending Christmas at Barcelona the people insisted on his being forthwith ordained to the priesthood. The irregularity of this step, however, was resented by many of the clergy, and the occurrence is still passed lightly over by his Roman Catholic panegyrists. In the following year he went into Italy, and after visiting Ambrose at MUan and Siricius at Rome—the latter of whom received him somewhat coldly—he proceeded into Campania, where, in the neighbourhood of Nola, he settled among the rude structures which he had caused to be built around the tomb and relics of his patron saint. With Therasia (now a sister, not a wife), while leading a life of rigid asceticism, he devoted the whole of his vast wealth to the entertainment of needy pilgrims, to payment of the debts of the insolvent, and to public works of utility or ornament; besides building basilicas at Fondi and Nola, he provided the latter place with a much needed aqueduct. At the next vacancy, not later than 409, he succeeded to the bishopric of Nola, and this office he held with ever-increasing honour until his death, which occurred shortly after that of Augustine, whose friend he was, in 431. He is commemorated by the Church of Rome on the 22nd of June.
The extant writings of Paulinus consist of some fifty Epistolae, addressed to Sulpicius Severus, Delphinus, Augustine, Jerome and others; thirty-two Carmina in a great variety of metre, including a series of hexameter “natales,” begun about 393 and continued annually in honour of the festival of St Felix, metrical epistles to Ausonius and Gestidius, and paraphrases of three psalms; and a Passio S. Genesii. They reveal to us a kindly and cheerful soul, well versed in the literary accomplishments of the period, but without any strength of intellectual grasp and peculiarly prone to superstition.
His works were edited by Rosweyde and Fronton le Due in 1622 (Antwerp, 8vo), and their text was reprinted in the Bibl. max. patr. (1677). The next editor was Le Brun des Marettes (2 vols. 4to, Paris, 1685), whose text was reproduced in substance by Muratori (Verona, 1736), and reprinted by Migne. The poems and letters are edited in the Vienna Corpus script, eccl. lat. vol. xxviii. See also P. Reinelt, Studien über die Briefe d. h. Paulin von Nola Breslau, 1904) and other literature cited in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyk. für prot. Theol. vol. xv.
PAULINUS (d. 644), first bishop of the Northumbrians and archbishop of York, was sent to England by Pope Gregory I.
in 601 to assist Augustine in his mission. He was consecrated
by Justus of Canterbury in 625 and escorted iEthelberg, daughter
of Æthelberht, to the Northumbrian king Edwin (q.v.). In
627 Edwin was baptized and assigned York to Paulinus as
his see. It was at Lincoln that he consecrated Honorius as
archbishop of Canterbury. In 633 Edwin was slain at
Hatfield Chase and Paulinus retired to Kent, where he became
bishop of Rochester. The pallium was not sent him until
634, when he had withdrawn from his province. He died
in 644.
See Bede, Historia ecclesiastica (ed. C. Plummer, Oxford, 1896).
PAULINUS, GAIUS SUETONIUS (1st century A.D.), Roman
general. In 42, during the reign of Claudius, he put down a revolt in Mauretania, and was the first of the Romans to cross the Atlas range. He subsequently wrote an account of his experiences. From 59–62 he commanded in Britain, and,
after a severe defeat, finally crushed the Iceni under Boadicea
(Boudicca). A complaint having been made to the emperor
that he was needlessly protracting hostilities, he was recalled,
but he was consul (for the second time) in 66. During the civil
war he fought on the side of Otho against Vitellius, and obtained
a considerable success against Aulus Caecina Alienus (one of the
Vitellian generals) near Cremona, but did not follow it up.
When Caecina had been joined by Fabius Valens, Paulinus
advised his colleagues not to risk a decisive battle, but his advice
was disregarded, and Otho (q.v.) was utterly defeated at Bedriacum.
After Vitellius had been proclaimed emperor, Paulinus
asserted that it was in consequence of his own treachery that
Otho's army had been defeated. Vitellius pretended to believe
this, and eventually pardoned Paulinus, after which nothing
further is heard of him.
See Dio Cassius lxii. 7–12; Tacitus, Annals, xiv. 30–39, Histories, i. 87, 90, ii. 23–41, 44, 60; Pliny, Nat. Hist. v. I; Plutarch, Otho. 7,8.
PAULSEN, FRIEDRICH (1846–1908), German philosopher and educationalist, was born at Langenhorn (Schleswig) and educated
at Erlangen, Bonn and Berlin, where he became extraordinary
professor of phOosophy and pedagogy in 1878. In 1896 he
succeeded Eduard Zeller as professor of moral philosophy at
Berhn. He died on the 14th of August 1908. He was the
greatest of the pupils of G. T. Fechner, to whose doctrine of
pan psych ism he gave great prominence by his Einleiiiing in die
Philosophie (1892; 7th ed., 1900; Eng. trans., 1895). He went,
however, considerably beyond Fechner in attempting to give
an epistemological account of our knowledge of the psycho physical.
Admitting Kant's hypothesis that by inner sense
we are conscious of mental states only, he holds that this
consciousness constitutes a knowledge of the " thing-in-itself "
— which Kant denies. Soul is, therefore, a practical reality
which Paulsen, with Schopenhauer, regards as known by the act
of " will." But this " will" is neither rational desire, unconscious
irrational will, nor conscious intelligent will, but an instinct, a
" will to live" (Zielstrebigkeit), often subconscious, pursuing ends,
indeed, but without reasoning as to means. This conception
of will, though consistent and convenient to the main thesis,
must be rigidly distinguished from the ordinary significance of
will, i.e. rational desire. Paulsen is almost better known for
his educational writings than as a pure philosopher. His
German Education, Past and Present (Eng. trans., by I. Lorenz,
1907) is a work of great value.
Among his other works are: Versuch einer Eniwickelunggeschichte d. Kantischen Erkenntnistheorie (Leipzig, 1875); Im.Kant (1898, 1899); “Gründung Organization und Lebensordnungen der deutschen Universitaten im Mittelalter” (in Sybel's Histor. Zeitschr. vol. xlv. 1881); Gesch. d. geiehrten Unterrichts auf d. deutschen Schulen und Universitäten (1885, 1896); System der Ethik (1889, 1899; Eng. trans, partial] 1899); Das Realgymnasium u. d. humanist. Bildung (1889); Kant d. Philos. d. Protestantismus (1899); Schopenhauer, Hamlet u. Mephistopheles (1900); Philosophia militans (1900, 1901); Parteipolitik u. Moral (1900).
PAULUS, HEINRICH EBERHARD GOTTLOB (1761–1851),
German rationalistic theologian, was born at Leonberg, near Stuttgart, on the 1st of September 1761. His father, a Lutheran clergyman at Leonberg, dabbled in spiritualism, and was deprived of his living in 1771. Paulus was educated in the seminary at Tübingen, was three years master in a German school, and then spent two years in travelling through England, Germany, Holland and France. In 1789 he was chosen professor ordinaries of Oriental languages at Jena. Here he lived in close intercourse with Schiller, Goethe, Herder and the most distinguished literary men of the time. In 1793 he succeeded Johann Christoph Doderlein (1745–1792) as professor of exegetical theology. His special work was the exposition of the Old and New Testaments in the light of his great Oriental learning
