Gustav Kratz
Gustav Adolf Kratz (born November 19, 1829 in Wintershagen , † November 7, 1864 in Stettin ) was a German historian who primarily dealt with the history of Pomerania .
life and work
The son of the manor owner Gustav Heinrich Kratz was tutored by private tutors before he attended the high school in Stolp from 1841 to 1844 . From 1844 to 1847 he was in Berlin at the Joachimsthal School . From January 1848 he attended the royal high school in Anklam , where he graduated from high school in 1850. He then did his military service in Greifswald Infantry Battalion and attended the local university to study law and cameralistics on. In 1850 he became a member of the Corps Pomerania Greifswald .
From 1851 to 1853 he continued his studies in Berlin. After he had passed the auscultator exam in Köslin in 1853 , he was employed as a trainee lawyer at the district court in Stolp from December 1855 . Out of interest in historical-archival work, especially on the history of Pomerania , he unsuccessfully applied to the royal herald's office in Berlin and to the royal archive administration.
In March 1858 he took a leave of absence from the judicial service to work as an assistant at the Stettin Provincial Archives . At the beginning of 1861 he was temporarily employed there. At the end of June of the same year he was employed as the second archivist alongside the provincial archivist Robert Klempin . Here, prompted by a competition, he dedicated himself to the history of the noble von Kleist family , for which he published a book of documents in 1862 at his own expense . Together with Robert Klempin, he edited registers and registers of the Pomeranian knighthood . His description of the cities of the Pomerania province was published only after his death. An essay on the Pomeranian colors and his dissertation “Die Pommerschen Schlossgesessenen”, with which he obtained his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1864 , also appeared posthumously. A work he started on the seals of Pomerania remained unfinished despite an extensive collection of materials.
In 1863 he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and died the following year.
Fonts
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History of the Kleist family
- Part I: Document book , Heinrich Schindler, Berlin 1862 (digitized: urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10985347-1 ). Supplementary volumes to this work have been edited by Johann Ludwig Quandt and Wilhelm Stettin.
- Part II: Supplement to the document book and general history . Berlin 1873 (digitized: urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11135429-2 ) ( e-copy, Google ).
- Registries and registers of the Pomeranian knighthood from the XIV. To the XIX. Century . Edited by Robert Klempin and Gustav Kratz. A. Bath, Berlin 1863 (digitized: urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10013369-9 )
- The Pomeranian colors. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 20. Issue 2. Stettin 1865, pp. 127–147.
- The Pomeranian castle-dwellers. Heinrich Schindler, Berlin 1865 ( digitized ).
- The cities of the province of Pomerania. Outline of their history, mostly based on documents. Introduction and preface by Robert Klempin . A. Bath, Berlin 1865 (digitized: urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10013429-3 ).
literature
- Otto von Heinemann : Kratz, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 360-362.
- Leopold von Ledebur : Obituary to Dr. Gustav Adolph Kratz . In: Archives for German aristocratic history, genealogy, heraldry and sphragistics. Part II, 1865, p. 309.
Web links
- Works by and about Gustav Kratz in the German Digital Library
- Literature by and about Gustav Kratz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1910, 93 , 277.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kratz, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kratz, Gustav Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wintershagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1864 |
| Place of death | Szczecin |