Theodor Pyl (historian)

Theodor Pyl

Theodor Pyl's house, Fischstrasse 10, Greifswald

Memorial plaque for Theodor Pyl at Fischstrasse 10 in Greifswald

Karl Theodor Pyl (born November 10, 1826 in Greifswald ; † December 13, 1904 there ) was a German historian .

Life

The Pyl family has its origins in the neighboring Hanseatic city of Stralsund. As the son of the Greifswald lawyer Gottfried Theodor Pyl (1791–1853), Pyl studied art history, literature and philosophy at the universities of Greifswald , Göttingen and Berlin . In 1853 he completed his habilitation at Greifswald University. Later he also turned to archeology and mythology. In 1865, Pyl was appointed head of the Rügisch-Pomeranian department of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology and he regularly gave lectures on regional history. In the same year Pyl also became head of the Academic Coin Cabinet in Greifswald. In 1879 Pyl was appointed professor of regional history at the University of Greifswald.

Theodor Pyl was chairman of the Greifswald committee of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology and, since April 24, 1885, also an honorary member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . In 1895 Pyl became the Red Eagle Order IV class and in 1900 the Crown Order III. Class awarded.

Theodor Pyl was married to Louise Lucée, the daughter of a lieutenant from Verden. The couple had two children: Agnes Pauline (1856–1885) and Paul Gottfried Theodor (1860–1935).

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From today's perspective, Pyl is significant as a regional historian for Western Pomerania . With the history of the Cistercian monastery Eldena and the history of the Greifswald churches and monasteries , he made important scientific contributions. Pyl also wrote historical novellas and the dramas Albrecht Dürer , Pontius Pilatus and Heinrich Rubenow or the foundation of the Greifswald University . Pyl worked as an author for the biographical encyclopedia » Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie « and wrote more than 80 articles, mainly about people related to Pomerania and Rügen .

Fonts

Peter of Ravenna . In: Baltic Studies . Volume 20, Stettin 1864, pp. 149-164 ( online ).
Margaret of Ravenna: Pomeranian life picture from the fifteenth century . Greifswald 1865. ( online )
From the Hildagestade. Homeland images . Greifswald 1876.
History of the Greifswald churches and monasteries, as well as their monuments, together with an introduction to the origins of the city of Greifswald. 6 vols. Greifswald: 1885–1900.
The Greifswald collections, patriotic antiquities and the works of art of the Middle Ages etc. the renaissance owned by the university, the churches etc. Authorities and the Greifswald department of the Society for Pomeranian History and Antiquity. Greifswald: 1869.
History of the Eldena Cistertian monastery in connection with the city and University of Greifswald. Greifswald, Bindewald.
- Part 1: Interior furnishings of the convent, description of the buildings and tombstones, overview of the property and external history of the monastery, with 6 pictures of the ruins and tombstones . 1880
- Part 2: Overview of the sources and resources, chronological order of the abbots and priors, registers on the history of the monastery, as well as place and person registers . 1882.
- Addendum . 1883
Art and artists in Greifswald, a contribution to Pomeranian art history . In: Contributions to the history and antiquity of Pomerania. Stettin 1898, pp. 183-206.

Article in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

Wikisource : Link to all ADB articles by Theodor Pyl.

literature

Martin Wehrmann : Karl Theodor Pyl . In: Pommersche Jahrbücher 6 (1905), pp. 1–11
Kurt Gassen : Theodor Storm and Karl Theodor Pyl . In: Pommersche Jahrbücher 33 (1939), pp. 128–152
Ludwig Biewer : Theodor Pyl (1826–1904), a Greifswald scholar and Pomeranian heraldist . In: Baltic Studies NF 82 (1996), pp. 120-131
Paul Raabe and Thomas Lindenberg: German writer lexicon 1830–1880 . Vol. 6, Berlin 2014, pp. 295-300. ISBN 978-3-05-006081-1
Eberhard Schmidt : Kosegarten's ring. The correspondence between Bertha Balthasar and Theodor Pyl between 1884 and 1886 . Elmenhorst / Vorpommern 2016, ISBN 978-3-939680-34-5

Web links

Wikisource: Theodor Pyl - Sources and full texts

Commons : Theodor Pyl - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by and about Theodor Pyl in the German Digital Library
Literature by and about Theodor Pyl in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Theodor Pyl (historian) in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

^ Family tree of the Pyl in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
^ Genealogical handbook of bourgeois families, first volume, Charlottenburg 1889, pp. 251-257
^ Ludwig Biewer : The University of Greifswald in the 19th century . In: Baltic Studies , NF Vol. 92, Kiel 2007, p. 82.
↑ Letter from Th.Pyl Bertha Balthasar from May 2, 1885

personal data
SURNAME	Pyl, Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pyl, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	November 10, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH	December 13, 1904
Place of death	Greifswald

[1] Family tree of the Pyl in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

[2] Genealogical handbook of bourgeois families, first volume, Charlottenburg 1889, pp. 251-257

[3] Ludwig Biewer : The University of Greifswald in the 19th century . In: Baltic Studies , NF Vol. 92, Kiel 2007, p. 82.

[4] Letter from Th.Pyl Bertha Balthasar from May 2, 1885