Felliner Literary Society

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The Felliner Literary Society (later modernized to Fellin Literary Society ) was a learned society based in Fellin ; it existed from 1881 to 1939.

History of the company

In 1881 the Felliner Literary Society was founded by Theodor Schiemann , who was working as a teacher at the Fellin High School at the time . As early as 1877, the Fellin Antiquities Research Committee was formed under his leadership to carry out excavation work in the Fellin Order Castle. Schiemann was President until he left Reval in 1883. His successor was the director of the state high school, Franz Waldmann, whose successor was the literary scholar Theodor Rieckhoff. After the state high school closed in 1892, the society moved into its building and was able to accommodate and reorganize the extensive prehistoric holdings and the coin collection.

Publications

  • Annual report of the Fellin Literary Society . A total of 13 volumes were published between 1883 and 1918.
  • Franz Waldmann: On the history of amber . Lecture given in the Felliner Literary Society on December 3. 1881
  • Theodor Schiemann : The oldest Swedish cadastre of Liv and Estonia: a supplement to the Baltic goods documents (on behalf of the Fellin literary society). Reval: F. Kluge, 1882 ( digitized from the University of Tartu ).
  • Friedrich Amelung : History of the town and landscape of Fellin from 1210-1625 (on behalf of the Fellin literary society). Fellin 1898.

literature

  • L. Körber: Brief review of the activities of the Felliner Literary Society in 1881–1906. In: Annual report of the Felliner Litterarian Society 1905/06, (1907) pp. 3–15.
  • Hellmuth Weiss : The historical societies . In: Georg von Rauch (Hrsg.): History of Baltic German historiography . Böhlau, Köln Wien 1986, pp. 121-139 (especially pp. 136-137).