Carl Friedrich von Stern

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Carl Friedrich von Stern as a student in Dorpat

Carl Friedrich von Stern (born January 18, 1859 in Alt Salis in Livonia , † February 1, 1944 in Posen ) was a Baltic German historian, librarian and journalist.

Life

Carl Friedrich von Stern was the son of the poet and landowner Carl Walfried von Stern (1819–1874) and his wife Caroline von Patkul . The journalist Maurice Reinhold von Stern was a younger brother. The parents moved with the family to Dorpat in 1872 . After attending grammar school in Dorpat from 1872 to 1877, he studied economics from 1878 to 1879 and then from 1879 to 1884 history at the university . Like his father, he was a member of the Livonia student union . In 1885 he continued his studies in Berlin; A trip abroad followed in 1886. In 1886 he returned to Dorpat. In 1888 he worked as a private tutor for the von Tritthoff family at Gut Pöllküll (today Padise municipality , Estonia) and in 1889/1890 for the von Helmersen family on Neu-Woidoma in Livonia (today Uue-Võidu , Viljandi County , Estonia).

Stern passed the senior teacher examination in 1889, became a private teacher in 1890 and a history teacher at the private grammar school in 1890/1891. He passed his master's degree in 1891. From 1894 and 1896 to 1899, von Stern worked for the Dorpat University Library . He was also the librarian of the Estonian learned society in Dorpat from 1897 to 1899 .

In 1895 his studies took him to Marburg . From 1899 to 1902 he was co-editor and co-editor of the Baltic monthly . From 1903 to 1906 he was an employee of the Livonian Charitable and Economic Society in Dorpat. From 1906 to 1909 he switched to the Düna newspaper in Riga as a co-editor . From 1910 to 1921 he was an employee of the Livonian land registry office and in 1920 was appointed librarian of the Society for History and Archeology in Riga . He remained in this position until 1935. Albert Bauer was his successor as librarian . Carl von Stern published until 1937 in publications of the Herder Institute in Riga , where Leonid Arbusow was also active as a historian.

With the expulsion of the Germans as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939, a large part of the Herder Institute's staff moved to the Reich University in Posen as a nucleus . Carl von Stern, too, published in Posen in Arbusow's series of sources and research on the Baltic history of the collection point for Baltic German cultural assets in Posen, in which five issues had appeared by 1944.

Fonts

  • Bartholomäus Ghotan in Stockholm and Moscow, along with a treatise on the beginnings of printing in Germany and Russia . Glasses, Lübeck 1902; Also contained in Wilhelm glasses : Fragments to the knowledge of the Lübeck first prints from 1464 to 1524 together with retrospectives in the later time. Glasses, Lübeck 1903 ( digitized version ).
  • Livonia's eastern border in the Middle Ages from Peipus to the Daugava . Häcker, Riga 1924.
  • Estonian folk tales / translated into German by Carl von Stern (= publications by the Folklore Research Center at the Herder Institute in Riga). Plates, Riga 1935.
  • The pretext for the great Russian war in 1558 . Bruhns, Riga 1936.
  • Contributions to the historical geography of the East Baltic (= treatises of the Herder Society and the Herder Institute in Riga). Plates, Riga 1937.
  • The Episcopal Embach Fortress Oldenthorn and its various names , Häcker, Posen 1942
  • with Leonid Arbusow: The “Livonian Land Order” of 1668. Its origin and its sources, especially those related to building law . Häcker, Posen 1942.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Proofs from 1906 to 1935 from the curriculum vitae in the report of the society edited by Leonig Arbusow and Arnold Feuereisen with the lectures on the 100th anniversary of the society in 1934, printed in 1936, p. XXV digitized ; Klaus Garber: Treasure houses of the spirit: old libraries and book collections in the Baltic States , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2007, p. 86
  2. ↑ Michael Garleff : Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich, Volume 1, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar 2001, p. 401
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Carl Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic-German historian, librarian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt Salis , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1944
Place of death Poses