Ernst Devrient

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Ernst Devrient (born June 15, 1873 in Weimar ; † January 21, 1948 there ) was a German state archivist and genealogist .

Life

Devrient was the son of the actor Otto Devrient and the younger brother of the theater scholar Hans Devrient. Ernst studied history in Jena , where he received his doctorate from Ottokar Lorenz in 1896 with a genealogical work on "the older Ernestines ". He was deaf from illness. As a result, he struggled to find a well-paid public service job. In 1904 he was one of the founding members of the Central Office for German Personal and Family History , whose first archivist he was from 1909 to 1913. In the early 1920s he wrote a number of articles for the conversation lexicon planned by Ullstein-Verlag . From 1923 he was an unskilled worker in the Thuringian archive administration. From 1924 to 1930 he was director of the Sondershausen State Archives. He married at the age of 55. His wife was many years younger than him. Due to a Jewish grandmother, he was considered a non-Aryan and was expelled from the Reich Association of German Writers and the Reich Association of Kinship Researchers and Heraldists in 1936, which meant the end of his journalistic activities and the associated services for Devrient. After Devrient's wife died in 1946, he himself died in early 1948 as a result of a traffic accident.

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Devrient published numerous writings on genealogy, for example on the stories of the noble families Helldorff and Arnim . Devrient's early writings programmatically summarized the genealogy modernized by his teacher Lorenz. Devrient published on various topics from the history of Thuringia , and wrote a brief account of the history of the country. He emerged as the editor of the 2nd and 3rd volumes of the Jena Document Book , the Saalfeld Histories by Kaspar Sagittarius and the city ​​rights of Eisenach , Gotha and Waltershausen . In addition, Devrient expressed himself intensively on the political situation in writings and numerous letters to the editor, justifying the occupation of Belgium during the First World War and calling for its annexation, and later advocated a reorganization of Thuringia by overcoming the small-state structure.

Works (selection)

Author and editor

  • The older Ernestines. A genealogical characteristic , Heymanns, Berlin 1897, extended version of the dissertation of May 22, 1896
  • Aims and tasks of modern genealogy , Teubner, Leipzig 1899
  • What principles should the historian apply to source editions? Criticism and suggestions, in: Correspondence sheet of the Gesamtverein der Deutschen Geschichts- und Altertumsvereine , 1906, Mittler, Berlin 1906
  • Thuringian history , Göschen, Leipzig, 1907 1 , 1921 2
  • Edited by: Ottokar Lorenz : Genealogical Handbook of European State History , 3rd increased edition of the Genealogical Hand and School Atlas , Cotta, Berlin, Stuttgart 1908
  • Source studies of family history, in: Zeitschrift für das Gymnasialwesen , 1909, No. 1, pp. 689–696
  • Family research , Teubner, Leipzig, 1911 1 , 1919 2
  • Borders and territories. Thuringia's history , Richter, Erfurt 1919
  • The von Arnim family , self-published by the Graf von Arnim family, Boitzenburg:
    • Part 1, document book , 1914
    • with Werner Konstantin von Arnswaldt: Part 2, family history :
      • Volume 1: The main strains Zichow and Zehdenick , 1923
      • Volume 2: The main line of Gerswalde , 1922
  • with Karl-Roderich von Helldorff: The von Helldorff family , Degner, Berlin 1931:
    • Volume 1: Family History
    • Volume 2: The von Helldorff family
  • Nicolaus Grape. The story of a Pomeranian aristocratic family , self-published, Stettin 1926
  • The Saalfeld council line 1323–1600, in: Festschrift for Valentin Hopf , Frommann, Jena 1933, pp. 154–175
  • The fight of the Schwarzburger for rule in the Saale valley . In: Willy Flach (ed.): Festschrift Berthold Rein on his 75th birthday. Research on the history of Schwarzburg , Jena: Frommannsche Buchhandlung Walter Biedermann 1935, pp. 1-44.

editor

  • Document book of the city of Jena and its spiritual institutions. Volume 2, 1406–1525 , using the estate of Johann Ernst August Martin (1822–1892), Gustav Fischer, Jena 1903
  • Saalfeld histories by Kaspar Sagittarius , commissioned by the city of Saalfeld an der Saale , 1904
  • with Friedrich Strenge Publication and introduction of: Die Stadtrechte von Eisenach, Gotha and Waltershausen , on behalf of the Association for Thuringian History and Archeology, G. Fischer, Jena 1909
  • Document book of the city of Jena and its spiritual institutions. Volume 3, addendum approx. 890–1525, books of the dead, files and documents 1526–1580 , Gustav Fischer, Jena 1936

Posthumously

  • Edited by Heinz Wiessner: The dioceses of the church province of Magdeburg. The Diocese of Naumburg 1 , 2 volumes, de Gruyter, 1997–1998 ( Germania Sacra. New series 35, 1–2)

literature

  • Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , pp. 116-117.
  • Brigitte Streich : Ernst Devrient (1873–1948). Historian - archivist - publicist, in: Thuringian research. Festschrift for Hans Eberhardt on his 85th birthday , Böhlau, Weimar 1993, pp. 491–515.
  • Brigitte Streich: Ernst Devrient (1873–1948), in: Thüringer Archivarverband (Ed.): Lebensbilder Thüringer Archivare , Rudolstadt 2001, pp. 38–42.

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Stephan Kekule v. Stradonitz : Aims and tasks of scientific genealogy (online version of the Verein für Computergenealogie eV), Deutsches Adelsblatt , Berlin 1900, pp. 3–35