Ernst Seraphim

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August Wilhelm Ernst Seraphim (born July 11 . Jul / 23. July  1862 greg. In Mitau , † July 1945 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a Baltic German historian , teacher and journalist in Livonia and Konigsberg.

Life

August Ernst was a son of the Courland lawyer Ferdinand Seraphim (1827-1894) and Helene Tiling († 1870). He attended high school and studied history at the University of Dorpat . After the senior teacher examination in 1886, he taught at the German State School in Fellin . After its dissolution, he became publisher and editor (1892) and editor-in-chief of the Düna newspaper (1896–1909) and the Rigaer Tageblatt (1909–1915).

In the mid-1890s he became a member or chairman of the Riga local branch of the Pan-German Association ; under him, Riga became a center of the Pan-German movement within the Russian Empire .

During the First World War he was deported by Russians to Siberia . He reported on these years in 1918. After that he was a press officer in the Baltic State Army for a short time .

In the autumn of 1919 he moved to Königsberg and took over the editorial office for questions about the East at the Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung . Until the end of his life, he developed a lively journalistic and scientific activity.

After the battle of Königsberg and the conquest of the city by the Red Army, he and his wife Sophie Wegener (1871–1945) died of starvation. He had two sons, the writers and historians Peter-Heinz Seraphim and Hans-Jürgen Seraphim . The historian August Robert Seraphim (1863-1924) was his brother.

Many of Seraphim's writings were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone .

Fonts

  • Picturesque views from Livonia, Estonia, Courland . Riga 1901
  • The Livonian Middle Ages and the Reformation (= General State History , Section 3: German State History , Work 7: History of Livonia , Vol. 1). Gotha 1906
  • From four centuries . Reval 1913
  • June days in Nidden . Koenigsberg 1922
  • From Livonia's past. German knights and merchants as bringers of culture in the Baltic region . Leipzig 1925 ( digitized version )
  • The tragedy of the tsarist family . Koenigsberg 1925
  • German-Russian relations 1918–1925 . Berlin 1925
  • Tsar arbitrariness and red terror . Koenigsberg 1926
  • Russian portraits. The tsarist monarchy until the collapse in 1917 . Zurich and Vienna 1934
  • From the history of Germanness in Poland . Koenigsberg 1935
  • Baltic fates . Berlin 1935
  • Eupraxia-Adelheid. A Kiev Grand Duchess on the German imperial throne . Koenigsberg 1938
  • Leading Germans in the Tsarist Empire . Berlin 1942

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the annual figures of the editorial activity see Ingeborg Fleischhauer: The Third Reich and the Germans in the Soviet Union . (= Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , series of quarterly journals for contemporary history; No. 46), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1983, p. 17.
  2. ^ Ingeborg Fleischhauer : The Germans in the Tsarist Empire . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1986, p. 336.
  3. ↑ Deported to Siberia . Dorpat 1918
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-s.html

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SURNAME Seraphim, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seraphim, Ernst August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic historian, journalist, teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitau
DATE OF DEATH July 1945
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)