Christian Wilhelm von Glück

Christian Wilhelm von Glück (born December 31, 1810 in Erlangen , † June 13, 1866 in Munich ) was a German librarian and Celtologist .

Life

Christian Wilhelm von Glück spent the first years of his life in Erlangen. His father, Christian Friedrich von Glück , gave him an understanding of scriptures and history. He has in Erlangen and Tuebingen studied, where a victim of the so-called out he demagogues persecution in Switzerland was forced to flee. During his studies in 1830 he became a member of the old Erlanger fraternity Germania and in 1832 a member of the fraternity Germania Tübingen .

He later moved to Munich , where he became court and state librarian. He died in 1866 of an intentional overdose of opium .

He became known through his research into Celtic culture .

The dioceses of Norikum, especially the Lorchian, at the time of Roman rule. Vienna 1855.
The authenticity of the Celtic names used by Caius Julius Caesar was determined and explained. Munich 1857.
Rênos, Moinos and Mogontiâcon, the Gallic names of the rivers Rhine and Main and the city of Mainz. Franz, Munich 1865.

Burschenschaft Germania: Membership Directory 1968
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 144 f.
Alessandro Hirata: The completion of the usus modernus pandectarum: Christian Friedrich von Glück (1755–1831). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Vol. 123 (2006), pp. 330–342 ( online ; with bibliography).
Hyacinth Holland : Glück, Christian Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 256-258.

personal data
SURNAME	Glück, Christian Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German librarian and Celtologist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	gain
DATE OF DEATH	June 13, 1866
Place of death	Munich