Georg Schmidt (genealogist)

Georg Schmidt (born March 22, 1838 in Halle (Saale) ; † November 6, 1920 ibid) was a German theologian and genealogist .

Life

Georg Schmidt was the son of Dr. Maximilian Friedrich Christian Schmidt and Cölestine, née Constantin.

He attended the pedagogy in Halle and has been concerned with history since his youth . After graduating from high school, he studied theology and received his doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1867 he became a chaplain . In 1868 he received his first pastor's position in Vetschau . He took part in the Franco-German War of 1870/71 as a hospital preacher in Pont-à-Mousson . In 1871 he became archdeacon in Luckau and in 1875 pastor in Filehne . After five years he was transferred to Leuna in 1880 . From 1891 he was in charge of the pastorate in Sachsenburg . In 1903 he retired and moved back to Halle, where he also died.

He researched and published since 1888 on the Central and North German nobility, mainly in Saxony , the Province of Saxony and in the Mark Brandenburg and was in connection with many noble families. On their behalf, he created many family chronicles, which presented well-founded stories of families.

At the end of his life he was an honorary member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Non-Profit Science in Erfurt , Honorary Member of the Herold Association in Berlin , Chairman of the Saxon-Thuringian History Association in Halle and a member of the Historical Commission for Saxony and Anhalt.

Works

• The von Bismarck family , Berlin 1908 digitized
• Schönhausen and the von Bismarck family, 1897
• The von Klitzing family , vol. 1, Charlottenburg 1891
• The von Zabeltitz family, Zobeltitz , 1888
• The von Dechen family, 1889
• The von Manteuffel family - Freiherr Sächsisch-Niederlausitzer Line, Berlin 1905
• The von Manteuffel family - Freiherrlich-Kurländische Linie, Berlin 1909
• The von Manteuffel family - Polzin and Arnhausen tribe of the Pomeranian family, Berlin 1915
• The von Manteuffel family - Poplow tribe of the Pomeranian family, Berlin 1913
• The von dem Borne family with related sexes, Merseburg 1888
• The family of the Counts of Hohenthal , 1896
• The von der Schulenburg family , Vol. I – III, Beetzendorf 1897–1908
• Pedigree of Veltheim , in: Deutscher Herold 45 (1914)
• The family of Veltheim, 2 vols., Halle 1912
• Destedt , Halle 1916
• Genealogical tables of the von Wulffen family , who were heirs and castles in the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, the Cathedral Abbey of Brandenburg and in the neighboring countries, Halle 1896
• Burgscheidungen , printed as a manuscript in 1894, new edition by Max Niemeyer, Halle 1900
• History of the von Wuthenow family , with heraldic, family and ancestral tables, Groß Paschleben 1893
• The sex of those von Barfuß , Freienwalde 1912
• Genealogical Collectaneen, 4 parts published in: Vierteljahrsschrift für Heraldik, Sphragistik und Genealogie, 1887, 1889, 1890, 1893
• Bibliography of German noblemen, in: Quarterly publication for coat of arms, seal and family history 1906 and 1907, 34th and 35th year, published separately in Berlin 1907

literature

• Hugo von der Schulenburg, Werner von der Schulenburg: Pastor Dr. Georg Schmidt as a genealogist: A critical contribution to the emergence of the new editions of the history of the von der Schulenburg family , by Danneil, Heidmann, 1906
• Who's it ?, Zeitgenossenlexikon , Edition IV., Leipzig 1909, p. 1241
• Hans Georg Schmidt: The Georg Schmidt family: a scholarly chronicle from three centuries . Letterpress of the Halle orphanage, 1911
• Parish book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony . Published by the Association for Pastors of the Evangelical Church in the Church Province of Saxony, Volume 7, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2008, p. 508

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Schmidt at the Institute for German Nobility Research