Berthold Schmidt

Berthold Schmidt (born January 12, 1856 in Ivenack ; † May 11, 1929 in Schleiz ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

Schmidt comes from an old Mecklenburg family of theologians and his full name was Herrmann Christoph Karl Friedrich Berthold Schmidt.

He received his first education in his parents' house from the tutor at the Count's castle in Ivenack. When he was 14, his parents sent him to the Progymnasium in Malchin and when he was 16 he went to the large city school in Wismar . His hard work and talent made it possible for him to attend the University of Leipzig in 1878 in the subjects of philology, history and German studies. He continued his studies in Berlin and Jena . When the academic-historical association was founded in Jena in the summer semester of 1881, Berthold Schmidt also joined it. He had a particularly friendly relationship with Dietrich Schäfer . In February 1882 he passed the state examination.

On October 1, 1882, at the general assembly of the association, he gave a lecture on "Criticism of the history of the ancestors of the Reussian house". Shortly afterwards, at Schäfer's suggestion, the Thuringian History and Antiquity Association in Jena commissioned him to edit the document book of the bailiffs of Weida, Gera and Plauen . With his dissertation on "Arnold von Quedlinburg and the oldest news on the history of the Reussian house" he received his doctorate in 1883. On the basis of this work, Prince Heinrich XIV. (Reuss younger line) appointed him archivist and librarian of the Princely House Archives and the Castle Library in Schleiz in 1884 and commissioned him to transform the “Schleiz House Archive” into a modern research facility. In 1885 he was deputy chairman of the Vogtland Antiquities Research Association in Hohenleuben . In 1898 he was appointed Archives Councilor , and in 1918 he was appointed Secret Archives Councilor. His publications and scientific accounts of Thuringian history are still indispensable today.

The city of Schleiz honored him on his 40th anniversary in 1924 by naming a street after him.

On May 11, 1929 he died after a long illness in Schleiz and was buried at the Bergkirche in Schleiz , to the left of the central entrance.

He was married to Helene Thieme (* May 17, 1864, † November 16, 1934).

Publications

• Arnold von Quedlinburg and the oldest news on the history of the Reussian house. Diss. - 1883, in: ZVThGA 11 (1882), 401-499 Abhandlung IV. , Jena 1883, published by Gustav Fischer
• Document book of the bailiffs of Weida, Gera and Plauen, as well as their house monasteries Mildenfurth, Cronschwitz, Weida and zh Kreuz bei Saalburg. Vol. 1.2. - Jena 1885/92
• Schmidt, Berthold: Burgrave Heinrich IV of Meissen, Colonel Chancellor of the Crown of Bohemia and his government in the Vogtlande. - Gera 1888
• Heinrich <Reuss, Prince>: Travel memories of Heinrich Reuss Posthumus from the period 1593–1616. - Schleiz 1890
• Count Heinrich XXVI. j. L. Reuss-Ebersdorf. - Schleiz 1896
• Guide through the mountain church in Schleiz. - 1897
• Schmidt, Berthold: Count Heinrich VI. Reuss a.L., the hero of Zenta. - Greiz 1897
• History of the family of Maltzan and Maltzahn. - Schleiz 1900-26
• Dr. Julius Alberti. - Schleiz 1903
• The Russians. Genealogy of the entire Reuss family older and younger line, as well as the extinct Vogtslinien zu Weida, Gera and Plauen and the Burgraves of Meißen from the House of Plauen. Schleiz 1903 digitized
• as ed. with Otto Meusel : AH Franckes Letters to Count Heinrich XXIV. j. L. Reuss zu Köstritz and his wife Eleonore from the years 1704–1727 as a contribution to the history of Pietism. Leipzig 1905.
• Reussian coin history. - Dresden 1907
• Schmidt, Berthold: History of the city of Schleiz. Vol. 1-3. - Schleiz 1908-16
• Schleiz's town clerk. - Schleiz 1910
• Prince Heinrich XIV. Reuss younger line. - Schleiz 1913
• Schmidt, Berthold: History of the Reußenland. Vol. 1.2. - Gera 1923/27
• Hansel, Robert: Reussische Genealogie. - 1940
• Hansel, Robert: Dr. Berthold Schmidt - A picture of his life and work - Schleiz 1930

Web links

• Books and essays by Berthold Schmidt in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii