Anton Peter Petri

Anton Peter Petri (born May 24, 1923 in Lovrin , Kingdom of Romania ; † August 2, 1995 in Mühldorf am Inn ) was a German historian, folklorist and educator.

Life

Anton Peter Petri was the son of Peter Petri and Marianna, geb. Chandler. He visited the Banatia in Timișoara from 1935 to 1943 . After high school he reached front line in the army (Wehrmacht) in captivity . In 1946 Petri fled to Austria via Hungary , where he initially made his way as a laborer. From 1949 to 1954 he studied German , history and geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1957 he graduated as Dr. phil. and then worked in school service and research.

Petri received several awards for his services as folklorist and historian, the Danube Swabian Culture Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg , the Prince Eugene Needle of the Swabian Association Vienna , the St. Wendelin plaque of the Donauschwäbischen Kulturwerkes Saarland eV and the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon (9 October 1986).

Publications

• Home books for several Banat villages
• New Banat Library (81 episodes)
• Danube Swabian local nonsense (1969)
• Plant and animal names in the dialects of the Danube Swabians (Munich 1971)
• From the “Aachenibrunnen” to “Zwölften-Gasse”. The street names of the German settlements of the pre-Trianonic Banat (Munich 1975)
• Biographical Lexicon of the Banat Germans (1992)

literature

• Horst Fassel :  Petri, Anton Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 264 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Anton Peter Petri in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait photo Petris
• Banat Heath
• Petri, Anton Peter . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Office of the Federal President