Emil Schaus

Emil Schaus (born November 14, 1869 in Ehrenbreitstein ; † February 28, 1944 in Koblenz ) was an archivist in the Prussian civil service and from 1921 to 1935 director of the Koblenz State Archives .

Life

Emil Schaus was born as the son of the royal auditor Friedrich Schaus. From 1876 he attended preschool and then grammar school in Koblenz . After graduating from high school in 1888 , he enrolled at the University of Munich to study history. In the following winter semester he continued his studies at the Berlin University , where Heinrich von Treitschke , Gustav v. Schmoller and Herman Grimm taught. He obtained his doctorate in 1894 with Paul Scheffer-Boichorst with the dissertation : On Diplomatik Ludwig des Bayern . In October of the same year he passed the archive exam in Marburg . As an immediate cessation in the Prussian archive service was not possible edited Emil Schaus on behalf of his doctoral supervisor Staufer Scheffer-Boichorst Regesten . With the support of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , he went on a study trip to Northern Italy . In 1897, Schaus took up an archivist position in Prenzlau and was then transferred to the Secret State Archives in Berlin in October 1897 . On April 1, 1898, he came to the State Archives in Wiesbaden , where he soon took over the editing and publication of the Naussau document book .

Emil Schaus was first assigned to the Red Cross and then to civil administration in Belgium because of previous illnesses during the First World War . After returning to the Wiesbaden State Archives in 1921, he was appointed head of the Koblenz State Archives. On April 1, 1935, he was retired there.

Works (selection)

• On the diplomacy of Ludwig of Bavaria. (Dissertation Berlin) Munich 1894
• The monastery of love . In: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 38. 1894, pp. 361–368
• Bismarck and Nassau. JF Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1900
• Contributions to the recent constitutional history of the city of Weilburg. In: Nassauische Annalen 36, 1906, pp. 57–86
• The Teutonic Order House in Koblenz. Introduction.
• City rights places and spots in the administrative district of Trier and in the district of Birkenfeld , ed. from the study group for regional history and folklore of the Trier area (series of publications on Trier regional history and folklore, volume 3), Trier 1958

literature

• Kurt Becker: Emil Schaus . In: Emil Schaus, Stadtrechtsorte and Flecken in the Trier administrative district and in the Birkenfeld district , ed. from the study group for regional history and folklore of the Trier area (series of publications on Trier regional history and folklore, volume 3), Trier 1958, pp. 141–148.

Web links

• Literature by and about Emil Schaus in the catalog of the German National Library