Andreas Lamey

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Andreas Lamey (born October 20, 1726 in Münster in Alsace , † March 17, 1802 in Mannheim ) was a historian and librarian.

Life

Lamey was the son of a cooper and farmer and studied theology, philosophy and mathematics at the University of Strasbourg . Johann Daniel Schöpflin took him as a student in 1744 and he became his amanuensis . With Schöpflin he worked on the Historia Zaringo-Badensis and the Alsatia. In 1761 he became librarian at the Strasbourg University Library.

In 1763 Lamey was appointed to the newly founded Electoral Palatinate Academy of Sciences in Mannheim by Elector Karl Theodor von der Pfalz . From 1766 on he was responsible for censorship, from 1767 he published the Mannheimer Zeitung . He dealt with historical and Roman history, primarily of Baden and Alsace , and published the Lorsch Codex as a project of the academy , among other things .

family

Theodor Leopold Weller was the son of his daughter Johanna. August Lamey was a son of his son Ernst Andreas Lamey.

Fonts

  • Diplomatic history of the old Counts of Ravensberg with a genealogical table, map and collection of CXXXIX documents. Mannheim 1779.

literature

  • Vera Derschum, Ferdinand Leikam, Mike W. Malm, Tanja Nause, Sandra Schaeff, Wiebke Niede (Red.): The German-language press: A biographical-bibliographical handbook. KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vera Derschum, Ferdinand Leikam, Mike W. Malm, Tanja Nause, Sandra Schaeff, Wiebke Niede (all editors): The German-language press: A biographical-bibliographical handbook. P. 598.

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personal data
SURNAME Lamey, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lameius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster in Alsace
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1802
Place of death Mannheim