Arthur Poelchau

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Arthur Harald Peter Poelchau (born May 30, 1845 in Riga ; † June 11, 1919 in Riga) was a Baltic German historian .

Life

Arthur Poelchau belongs to a family that comes from East Prussia , has been in Courland since 1715 and in Riga since 1757. The son of Bishop Peter August Poelchau and Charlotte Dorothea, b. Hielbig, attended the secondary school in Riga , studied history in Dorpat from 1866 to 1871 and was a member of the Fraternitas Rigensis there . He also studied in Berlin , Munich and Jena , where he received his doctorate in 1874 . From 1876 he was a senior teacher at the city high school in Riga, and from 1881 at the same time assistant to the city library. He was a member and from 1881 to 1885 secretary of the Society for the History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia . After 1905 he also served as president and then on the board of trustees of the asylum for the blind in Strasdenhof.

Poelchau had been married to Charlotte Müller since 1876.

Works

Poelchau published numerous essays on Baltic history, especially on personal studies. From 1882 to 1901 he was editor of the series Die Livländische Geschichtsliteratur for 1880-1913 . Riga 1881–1923 and also editor of the Rigas city papers from 1889 to 1906 .

  • The real resp. City high school in Riga in the first thirty years of its existence 1861–1890: a sketch. Riga 1911 ( digitized version )

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1889, p. 593, no. 8080.
  2. ↑ Fratrum Rigensium album. Hechthausen 1981. No. 617.
personal data
SURNAME Poelchau, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poelchau, Arthur Harald Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1919
Place of death Riga