Christian Heinrich Delius

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Christian Heinrich Delius

Christian Heinrich Delius (born October 24, 1778 in Wernigerode ; † April 14, 1840 there ) was an archivist and historian .

Life

Delius was the only son of the mayor and city counsel Jakob Heinrich Delius in Wernigerode. After attending the Latin school in his hometown, he went to the Ilfeld Pedagogy in 1796 and to the University of Göttingen in 1798 . From 1800 to 1801 he attended the University of Halle and then returned to Wernigerode, where he entered the service of Count Christian Friedrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . On June 7, 1802 he was appointed to the count's archival assistant and on June 23, 1804 to the count's archivist (ius). In 1810 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Delius accompanied the then Hereditary Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode on his trip to Paris in 1807 and stayed with him at the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 and at the Prussian court in Berlin in 1822 to close a new recess between Prussia and the Count's House of Stolberg-Wernigerode. For his outstanding services, he was appointed Count's Council on September 7, 1814, Government and Consistorial Council in 1816 and Director of the Count's Government in 1834. He exercised this function until his death. He built a new house behind the Wernigerode town hall , which is now used as the Harz Museum.

On June 4, 1816, in Wernigerode, he married Luise Henriette Caroline Hopstock (1793–1861), the daughter of the Wernigerode merchant Andreas August Carl Hopstock (1752–1802).

Delius left behind an important library of around 13,000 volumes and 10,000 maps, which were combined with the Count's library after his death . His written legacy, however, was integrated into the Count's archive and is now administered at the Wernigerode location of the Magdeburg department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .

Works

  • The Hildesheim collegiate feud , Leipzig 1803
  • About the boundaries and division of the Archdiocese of Bremen , Wernigerode 1808
  • Contributions to the history of German areas and their rulers
    • a) Fragments from the history of the Elbingerode Office , Quedlinburg 1813
    • b) News on the history of the estates in the county of Wernigerode , Wernigerode 1813
  • Investigations into the history of the Harzburg and the supposed idol Krodo , Halberstadt 1826

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Christian Heinrich Delius  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Christian Heinrich Delius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 66.
personal data
SURNAME Delius, Christian Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1840
Place of death Wernigerode