General encyclopedia of writers and scholars of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland is a multi-volume dictionary . It was edited by Johann Friedrich von Recke and Karl Eduard Napiersky . Theodor Beise edited the supplements . The total of six volumes were published in Mitau “by Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen and Son ”.

literature

  • Gert von Pistohlkors : Johann Friedrich von Recke (1764–1846) and Karl Eduard von Napiersky (1793–1864) - their efforts to comprehensively record Livonian historical literature. In: Cultural history of the Baltic countries in the early modern period . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-484-36587-0 , pp. 441–462 ( preview on Google Books )

Web links