Carl Eduard Conrad

Carl Eduard Conrad (born December 27, 1830 in Leschkirch , Kingdom of Hungary , † April 15, 1906 in Kronstadt ) was a Transylvanian politician , a member of the Royal Hungarian Diet in Budapest and a public notary public in Kronstadt.

Life

Carl Eduard Conrad came from a traditional Transylvanian family who had lived in Leschkirch (now around Nocrich) for centuries on their manor. His father Friedrich Georg Conrad (1795–1855), his grandfather Samuel Gottlieb Conrad (1753–1827) and his great-grandfather Georg Conrad (1712–1770) had achieved the high dignity of the royal judge and came from the family of Baron Michael Breckner von Brukenthal (1676 –1736), whose father was also a royal judge. Together with his wife Charlotte Wilhelmine Schullerus (* October 28, 1839; † September 25, 1918), an aunt of the Transylvanian poet and folklorist Eduard Schullerus (1877-1914), he undertook a trip to Vienna in 1873 on the occasion of the World's Fair , where he was a Wrote a diary, which is one of the first and most interesting documents of Transylvanian travel literature.

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• Carl Gustav Conrad : From the diary 1873 [excerpts, first publication from the original manuscript]. In: New Literature ( Bucharest ), Volume 31, February issue, 1980.

Literature (selection)

• Friedrich Schuller : Contributions to the external history of the hereditary count of the seven chairs. In: Archives of the Association for Transylvanian Cultural Studies ( Sibiu ), NF, XXI. Vol., Issue 2/1887, pp. 313-366.

• Wilhelm Bruckner : Stammliste of the family Brekner von Brukenthal. Sibiu (Association Archives, NF VIII), 1910, p. 34 ff.

• Georg Adolf Schuller : The old church registers as sources of our cultural history. In: Kirchliche Blätter (Hermannstadt), 1906/1907, pp. 777–780, 791–796, 813–815.

• Hermann Hienz : Sources on folklore and local history of the Transylvanian Saxons . Vol. I. Leipzig: Verlag S. Hirzel, 1940, p. 217.

• Erika Schneider : From private gardens to urban parks. On the history of the old Hermannstädter green spaces [Michael v. Brukenthal's English Park at the Soldisch Bastion]. In: Die Woche (Sibiu / Hermannstadt), No. 616, October 5, 1979, p. 5.

• P (eter) W (erner) (i.e. Claus Stephani ): “In the city park near the Danube female”. From Carl Eduard Conrad's notes from a trip to Vienna. In: Neue Literatur (Bucharest), Manuscriptum XXIV, 31/2, 1980, pp. 83-88.

• Balduin Herter : The Brekner families from Brukenthal. On the history and genealogy of the Transylvanian-Saxon families, volume 6. In: Siebenbürgische Familienforschung (Heidelberg), 20th year 2003, pp. 45–48.

• Gustav Binder : The Testament of Samuel von Brukenthal. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung (Munich), volume 1, January 15, 2003, page 3.

• Leopold von Lehsten : Breckner von Brukenthal ancestral list. In: Archive for Family History Research (AfF), 9th year, issue 1/2005. CA Starke Published by Limburg, 2005.