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 .
Works (selection)
- 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.
literature
- 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.
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Wilhelm von Glück in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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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 |