What is a status?

To even begin to answer the question, we must consider a deeper one. What is a status?

Historians claim that Julius Caesar once posted the first status: "Veni, vidi, vici"[1] translated: "I came; I saw; I conquered". This lets us assume that a status once was something which only the rich and powerful could afford.
But there are far less historic artifacts passed down to our modern times to work out the exact statement.
Especially when we consider that the original status once was something that was refereed to as 'Status quo', 'Status quo ante (bellum)' or to be the most precise 'in statu quo res erant ante bellum' which dates back to the 14th-century and applied to  "the state in which things were before the war" as quoted by the Treaty of Hubertusburg which marked the end of the Seven Years' War.[2]
This indicates a  restoration of power to pre-war status.
Over the historic timeline of human civilisations there have been established a lot of definitions for our so searched core aspect of the status. To show the vast spectrum of the status I would like to investigate further in the jural participation of our discussion about status.
In 1892 Georg Jellineks published his writing 'The System of Subjective Public Rights'[3] which gives us the Status teaching about fundamental- and human-rights in general between the human instinct of personality as opposed to the principles of a political state and their society. To this ratio he refers to as 'Status'. Further he can be quoted: "Recht hat man, Persönlichkeit ist man." transl.:"One has the right, one is the personality". The individual can therefore accomplish a variable size of its ego through the 'Status' which can be limited or enhanced by the jural component.
In the end Jellinek came to the conclusion that each and every social or political conflict is an attempt to enlarge one own personality. Through recognition of one own personality, one restrict the power of the state and creates an stateless situation which can only be perceived by the individual and can be refereed to as cultural development. This cultural development is with high probability our so searched status.

So I come to my conclusion: I just don't know.



[1]Julius Caesar, who supposedly used the phrase in a letter to the Roman Senate around 46 BC after he had achieved a quick victory in his short war against Pharnaces II of Pontus at the Battle of Zela.

[2]15. February 1763; Treaty of Hubertusburg  (orig. dt.: Frieden von Hubertusburg)

[3]The System of Subjective Public Rights; 1892 (orig. dt.:System der subjektiven öffentlichen Rechte)