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 | | Claudius was the son of Matthias Claudius, Lutheran pastor at Reinfeld. |
 | | An ancestor, a Lutheran pastor in who died in 1586, had Latinized his name, Claus Paulsen, to Claudius Pauli, and his descendants adopted Claudius as their surname. |
 | | Matthias entered the University of Jena in 1759 as a theology student, but being in ill health, and finding little interest in his studies, he turned instead to law and languages. |
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