Axel from Gernet
Konrad Axel von Gernet (born November 14, 1865 in Sallentack , Estonia Governorate , † February 5, 1920 in Petrograd ) was a German Baltic historian .
family
The father was Oskar von Gernet, an excise officer , the mother Elisabeth von Gernet, b. from Stubendorff. On August 10, 1893, he married Magdalene Freiin von Tiesenhausen in Dorpat .
Life
He attended the Knights and Cathedral School in Reval from 1878 to 1883 . From 1886 to 1891 he studied history at the University of Dorpat (1888 gold medal). From 1886 he was active in the Baltic Corporation Estonia Dorpat , for which he compiled the first edition of the list of members Album Estonorum in 1888 .
In St. Petersburg he was from 1892 to 1917 an official of the Heraldiedepartment of the Senate, from 1893 to 1899 assistant archivist and from 1899 assistant to the senior secretary, at the same time teacher at the Petrovsky School from 1893 to 1896 and from 1903 manager of the central committee of the support fund for the Evangelical Lutheran congregations Of Russia. From 1899 to 1917 he was also secretary of the church council of St. Anne's Church . He worked in the Evangelical Lutheran General Consistory from 1919 . From 1893 to 1903 permanent, later occasional employee of the St. Petersburg newspaper .
Memberships
- Corresponding member of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia , Riga (1897)
- Corresponding member of the Estonian Literary Society (1897)
Fonts
- Constitutional history of the diocese of Dorpat up to the formation of the estates . Schnakenburg′s printing house, Dorpat 1896.
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Research on the history of the Baltic nobility
- The Harrisch-Wierische knighthood under the rule of the Teutonic Order up to the acquisition of the grace of the Jungingen
- The beginnings of the Livonian knighthood until 1435 . 1895.
- History of the Most Highly Confirmed Assistance Fund for Evangelical Lutheran Congregations in Russia
- History of peasant agricultural law in Estonia . 1901.
- The Evangelical Lutheran Congregations in Russia . 2 vols. 1909. 1911.
literature
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 458 .
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Axel von Gernet. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ album Estonorum , 3rd edition, mfd. by Georg Adelheim, Reval: Mickwitz 1910 ( digitized ), p. 318, no. 954
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gernet, Axel von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gernet, Konrad Axel von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sallentack , Estonia Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 1920 |
| Place of death | Petrograd |