Paul de Scherff was a Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

ian politician..

De Scherff was born in Frankfurt to F. H. W. von Scherff-Arnoldi, who was minister plenipotentiary of the King-Grand Duke

King-Grand Duke

The designation of King-Grand Duke was held by the three monarchs of the House of Orange-Nassau that ruled Luxembourg and the Netherlands in personal union, between 1815 and 1890...

 to the German Federal Diet

Bundesversammlung (German Confederation)

The Federal Assembly was the only central institution of the German Confederation from 1815 until 1848, and from 1850 until 1866. The Federal Assembly had its seat in the palais Thurn und Taxis in Frankfurt...

. He was President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1869 until 1872.

He married Marie Pescatore on 14 September 1842, daughter of Constantin Jos. Antoine Pescatore and niece of Theodore Pescatore

Théodore Pescatore

Théodore Pescatore was a Luxembourgian politician. One of the most important liberals in the mid-nineteenth century, he was president of the Constituent Assembly that wrote Luxembourg's Constitution in 1848...

. De Scherff was a practising member of the Reformed Church.