Amandus Karl Vanselow
Amandus Karl Vanselow , also Amandus Carolus Vanselow (born August 27, 1699 in Dobberphul near Wollin , † July 5, 1771 in Plathe ) was a German mayor and non-fiction author. He published personal encyclopedias on the history of Pomerania .
Life
Nothing is known about Vanselow's origins. From 1729 to 1767 he was mayor of the town of Plathe in Pomerania and legal counsel for the offices of Naugard , Massow and Gülzow . No details have been handed down about his official activity.
In 1733 he married Margarethe Louise Ventzke, a pastor's daughter from Plathe. His son Wilhelm Karl Vanselow († 1801), who was an excise inspector in Plathe, survived him.
Fonts
Vanselow published several personal encyclopedias on the history of Pomerania, which are still useful today:
- Scholarly Pomerania or alphabetical index of some male and female scholars drilled in Pomerania according to their most remarkable circumstances and written writings. Stargard 1728. ( Digitized , a new edition has remained unfinished and unprinted, but was used by Johann Carl Conrad Oelrichs (1722–1799))
- Genealogical description of the noble family of the east castle and castle-sat in Pomerania . Kolberg 1738.
- Adeliches Pomerania. Kolberg 1742. (Biographies of statesmen, soldiers and scholars from the Pomeranian aristocratic families, digitized in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania digital library)
- Pomeranian Register of Heroes or The Life and Deeds of those Princely, Counts, Barons, Aristocrats and Bourgeois Classes, as born in Pomerania and made famous in military service, described from secure messages in alphabetical order. 1745.
- News from the general superintendents, preposites, etc. from the Reformation to 1765 in Western Pomerania . Stargard 1766.
literature
- Gottfried von Bülow : Vanselow, Amandus Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 485.
- Fritz Petrick: Vanselow, Amandus Carolus (1699–1771). In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 1 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20936-0 , pp. 257-258.
Footnotes
- ↑ Otto Vanselow: On the story of Amandus Carolus Vanselow, mayor of Plathe. In: Monthly pages of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology, 18th year, Herrcke & Lebeling, Stettin 1904, p. 67.
- ↑ Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania: Outline of their history, mostly according to documents. A. Bath, Berlin 1865, p. 299 ( Google books ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vanselow, Amandus Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vanselow, Amandus Carolus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mayor and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1699 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dobberphul |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 1771 |
| Place of death | Plateau |