Gustav Schmidt (historian, 1829)

Karl Gustav Schmidt (born February 5, 1829 in Duderstadt , † January 2, 1892 in Halberstadt ) was a German historian .

Since his father died early, at the age of ten he came to see his uncle, the school councilor Schmidt, in Eisenach , where he attended grammar school from 1839 to 1846 and passed his Abitur. Gustav Schmidt then studied philology at the Georg August University in Göttingen and Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1855 he received his doctorate in philosophy. He worked as a teacher at various grammar schools before he was appointed director of the cathedral grammar school in Halberstadt in 1871, which he led until 1891.

Schmidt was a member of the Harz Association for History and Archeology and the Historical Commission of the Province of Saxony . From 1860 to 1866 he was an assessor at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

A number of materials that came from the Halberstadt Cathedral Gymnasium and were collected by Schmidt came to the Soviet Union after the Second World War and are now stored as the "Gustav Schmidt Document Collection " in the library of Moscow's Lomonossow University .

Fonts (selection)

Document book of the city of Göttingen (= document book of the historical association for Lower Saxony. H. 6–7). 2 volumes. Hahn, Hanover 1863 and 1867; Reprint: Scientia, Aalen 1974, ISBN 3-511-06230-6 .
Coin and medal cabinet of Count Karl zu Inn- und Knyphausen. Culemann, Hanover 1872/1877.
Document book of the Halberstadt Monastery and its bishops (= publications from the Imperial Prussian State Archives. Vol. 17, 21, 27, 40). 4 volumes. Hirzel, Leipzig 1883, 1884, 1887 and 1889; Reprint: O. Zeller, Osnabrück 1965 and 1966.
Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Oschersleben district (= descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the province of Saxony and adjacent areas. H. 14). Otto Hendel, Halle an der Saale 1891.
The manuscripts of the high school library. Part 1. In: Easter program / Royal Cathedral High School in Halberstadt, 1878 [1]
The manuscripts of the high school library. Part 2. In: Easter program / Royal Cathedral High School in Halberstadt, 1881 [2]

literature

Eduard Jacobs : Schmidt, Karl Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 100-102.
Paul Lauerwald: Dr. Carl Gustav Schmidt (1829–1892) as a numismatist. In: Eichsfeld yearbook. Vol. 7 (1999), pp. 293-305.

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 215.
↑ Ekaterina Skvairs, Natalija Ganina: German medieval manuscripts and printing fragments in the "Documents collection Gustav Schmidt" of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Moscow 2008 (Russian).

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmidt, Karl Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH	Duderstadt
DATE OF DEATH	January 2, 1892
Place of death	Halberstadt

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 215.

[2] Ekaterina Skvairs, Natalija Ganina: German medieval manuscripts and printing fragments in the "Documents collection Gustav Schmidt" of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Moscow 2008 (Russian).