Friedrich Adolf Meckelburg

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Friedrich Adolf Meckelburg (born June 13, 1809 in Königsberg ; † April 12, 1881 there ) was a German archivist .

Life

Adolf Meckelburg was introduced to the archives and archives of the German Order of Knights by Johannes Voigt . He worked with him on the "Name Code of German Order Officials" (1843), to which Voigt wrote the introduction, a work that has brought tremendous use, then a complete index to Voigt's nine volumes of Prussian History, which remained unprinted because the publisher left an excerpt from it wanted to add to the ninth volume.

It was not until the fortieth year of life that Meckelburg got a job in the archive, whose treasures had occupied him since the end of his studies and which the rich fruits of his orderly diligence will be measured for a long time to come. This diligence, which favored a very solid health, had to extend to other areas at the same time. Meckelburg had also administered the Königsberg city library for many years and presented it with a new catalog that he was unable to complete.

He not only founded the “Prussia” antiquity society with Ernst August Hagen , Bartisius and W. Hensche in 1844, but also supported it, and has remained secretary to this association until the end. In particular, Meckelburg took part in the same magazine, the "Prussian Provincial Papers" (35 vols. 1846-1865) with archival and literary publications, including contributions from his own research. The first prints of some historiographers ( Johannes Freiberg , Balthasar Gans ) leaned on this journal , which Meckelburg then repeated in the "Königsberg Chronicles from the time of Duke Albrecht" with others in 1865; also the printing of Georg Christoph Pisanski's “Prussian Literary History” (1853), which, however, remained unfinished; also the publication of the "Adelsmatrikel für die Provinz Prussen" (1857), a summary of a series of essays on the same topic, which he had previously published in the Neue Preußische Provinzialk-Blätter .

After Voigt's death (1861), Meckelburg became director of the Königsberg archive and the growing business burden forced him to give up some work. Since the foundation of the historical association for Prussia in 1872, he has been a member of the board. In 1874 he retired from official positions, feeling the health and stability of the memory that had preserved the local memories with priceless fidelity. But accustomed to constant diligence, he still did not rest. Up to the last years of his life he was occupied with a completed edition of his “Name Code of German Order Officials” and work on Pisanski's literary history.

Meckelburg was a member of the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia .

Works (excerpt)

  • History of the printing works in Königsberg , 1840.
  • Prussian Chronicle , 1848.
  • Contribution to the history of the church in Quednau . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Volume 4, Königsberg 1853, pp. 1-4.
  • Draft of the Prussian literary history , 1853.
  • Draft of a register of the nobility in the province of Prussia. According to archival and other sources. In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . AF, Volume 5, Koenigsberg 1854, pp. 255-266 ; Volume 7, Konigsberg 1855, pp. 67-75 and pp. 292-300 .
  • Draft of an aristocratic register for the province of Prussia based on archival and other sources, 1857.
  • The Königsberg Chronicles from the time of Duke Albrecht, 1865.
as editor
  • Newe Zeitung , 1521. According to copies in the Kgl. Königsberg archive published for the first time. In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Volume 3, Königsberg 1863, pp. 134-152.

swell

  • Old Prussian Monthly (New Series) , April 1881.
  • K. Bader: Lexicon of German librarians. Leipzig, 1925.
  • Old Prussian biography . Koenigsberg, 1941-1967.
  • JN Weisfert: Biographical-literary lexicon for the capital and royal seat of Königsberg and East Prussia. Koenigsberg, 1898.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See for example FA Meckelburg: Draft of a register of the nobility in Prussia. Compiled from archival and other sources . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Volume 4, Königsberg 1853, pp. 457-462.
personal data
SURNAME Meckelburg, Friedrich Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meckelburg, Friedrich Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1881
Place of death Koenigsberg