Ezekiel Zivier

Ezekiel Zivier (born September 22, 1868 in Wielun , Russian Poland , † August 22, 1925 in Breslau ) was a Polish-German historian , archive director and publicist .

Ezekiel Zivier, portrait drawing by Max Treitel from September 5, 1910

Life

Zivier initially pursued Jewish theological studies, then studied history , Slavic and Oriental studies and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. Because of his knowledge of the Slavic languages, he became an archivist in the service of Prince von Pless . He transformed the archives of the principality into a modern institute. After he had already published several works on the history of the Silesian mining law and the principality of Pless , he was published after the death of the historian Jakob Caro in 1904 by the Perthes publishing house in Gotha with the continuation of the works started by Richard Roepell in 1840 and by Caro since 1863 continued history of Poland . Directly following on from this standard work by Roepell and Caro, he added an important volume to the historiography of Poland, in which the time until the extinction of the male line of the Jagellons is dealt with.

In the magazine Im deutscher Reich , Zivier has commented on the Jewish question in a number of articles. In 1902 Zivier founded the magazine Oberschlesien , the first five volumes of which he edited. He is considered to be the initiator of the complete archive of German Jews in Berlin, which was opened in 1906. Zivier also dealt with the history of the Silesian mining industry.

Zivier was the father of the journalist and writer Georg Zivier (pseudonym Hans Gregor ).

Works (selection)

• Studies on the Suprasliensis Code . Two volumes, 1892/1899.
• On the theory of the mountain shelf in Silesia , 1897.
• History of the mountain shelf in Silesia until the land was taken over by Prussia , 1898.
• Legal relations of the 'free class rule' principality of Pless , 1898.
• Files and documents on the history of the Silesian mining industry , 1900 (reprinted in 2010 by the US-American 'Print on demand' publisher, ISBN 1141975157 ).
• An archival information journey . In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism . Volume 49, NF 18, 1905, pp. 209-254.
• History of the Principality of Pless . Volume I: The emergence of the Pleß class , 1906.
• The Jews of Upper Silesia - Subsequent to the General Archives of German Jews , 1907 (reprinted in 2010 by the US 'Print on demand' publisher, ISBN 1161104623 ).
• Fürstenstein 1509-1909 , 1909.
• Development of hard coal mining in the Principality of Pless , 1914.
• Modern History of Poland , Volume I: The Last Two Jagellons (1506-1572) . Perthes, Gotha 1915 (reprinted in 2010 by the US 'Print on demand' publisher, ISBN 1160203342 ).
• On the Race and Eastern Jewish Question , 1916 (revised and expanded edition 1923).
• Poland (= Perthes' Little Ethnology and Area Studies for Use in Practical Life , Volume 4). Perthes, Gotha 1917.
• Slavic Studies and the History of Poland (textbook).

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition (Rudolf Vierhaus, ed.), Volume 10, Saur, Munich 2008, p. 874.
• Large Jewish National Biography (S. Wininger, ed.), Volume 6, Kraus Reprint, Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1979, pp. 366–367.
• Ernst Gottfried Lowenthal: Jews in Prussia. Biographical directory - a representative cross-section (published by the Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz). Reimer, Berlin 1983, p. 256.
• Barbara Kalinowska-Wójcik: Jewish historical research in Silesia in the 19th and early 20th centuries: Jacob Caro (1835–1904), Markus Brann (1849–1920) and Ezechiel Zivier (1868–1925) . In: Joachim Bahlcke / Roland Gehrke (eds.): Scholars - Schools - Networks. Historical researchers in Silesia in the long 19th century, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau 2019 (New research on Silesian history; 28), ISBN 978-3-412-51666-6 , pp. 331–366.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The DBI also inadvertently mentions the professions of the son Georg in Ezekiel. German Biographical Index . 3rd edition, Saur, Munich 2004, p. 6629.