Gustav von Buchwald

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Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Buchwald (born September 1, 1850 in Schwerin , † March 13, 1920 in Jena ) was a German librarian, archivist and writer.

Life

Gustav von Buchwald came from the old Holstein , later also Mecklenburg noble family von Buchwald (t) . He was a son of the landowner Otto von Buchwald (1806-1889) on Kladow ( Crivitz , until 1844) and Röntgenendorf, and his wife Louise Charlotte, née. von Schoepffer (1820–1872).

After graduating from high school in 1870 at the Fridericianum Schwerin , he studied law and antiquity, linguistics and history at the universities of Leipzig , Munich and Kiel . In Kiel he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1875 he undertook archival trips on behalf of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg History in preparation for the Schleswig-Holstein Regesta and documents ; in addition, he was entrusted with the archive management of the Preetz monastery .

From 1883 to 1913 he worked as a grand ducal archivist, librarian and head of the grand ducal collection at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Neustrelitz . In his early years of service he re-established the main archive in Neustrelitz , which - later combined with the local secret archive - was transferred to the state main archive in Schwerin in 1935 . Towards the end of his service and a series of strange decisions, Buchwald had lost the last bit of authority among his employees: "I don't greet you," a veteran archive registrar threw at him on the street, whom Buchwald repeatedly dragged to court for similar refusals of authority, " I don't greet people with such a mean character at all ... ”. Buchwald quit his job a few years later (1913), went into early retirement and left the royal seat with an unknown destination. His successor was Hans Witte . Buchwald's estate is considered lost.

Buchwald had been a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology since 1880 .

He was married to (his cousin?) The writer Ina von Buchwald, b. von Schöpffer (born June 14, 1856 in Bützow ; † April 5, 1928 in Berlin ), a daughter of the District Court Councilor Adolph von Schöpffer, with whom he also published cultural-historical narratives.

Works

  • [as ed .:] Friedrich Christian Karl August of Schleswig-Holstein, Count von Noer : Emperor Akbar. An experiment on the history of India in the 16th century. Volume 2. Brill, Leiden 1885
  • Arnoldi Lubecensis Gregorius peccator de Teutonico Hartmanni de Aue in Latinum translatus. E. Homann, Kiel 1886
  • German social life in the late Middle Ages.
    • Volume 1: On German educational history in the late Middle Ages. 10 lectures. Hamann, Kiel 1885
    • Volume 2: On German economic history in the late Middle Ages. 15 lectures. Hamann, Kiel 1887
  • Contributions to Karl Bartsch : Legends, fairy tales and customs from Meklenburg. 2 volumes, 1879/80
  • Bishops and princes documents of the XII. and XIII. Century. Contributions to the teaching of documents. Werther, Rostock 1882 ( digitized version )
Reprints: Sendet, Wiesbaden 1969; 1982; Sendet, Vaduz / Liechtenstein 1987; 1993
  • Festschrift to celebrate the golden wedding of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 1893
  • Pictures from the economic and political past of Mecklenburg. 1893
  • The Monarch Skat: A Schlaraffische Story. Bechthold, Wiesbaden [1892]
  • The Meermaid of Amrum: A Mysterious Story. Hanover and Leipzig [1897]
  • The origin of the round. 1901
  • Regesten from the fishing documents of the Mark Brandenburg. 1150-1710. Bornträger, Berlin 1903 ( digital copy , Harvard)
  • The blessings of the Reformation for the German people. Eger, Leipzig 1917

[together with Ina von Buchwald:]

  • The Heljäger from Waldbad. 1888
  • The home of the circumnavigator. 1890
  • Villa Möhl and more. 1893

literature

  • Buchwald, Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von . In: Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500-1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , p. 90.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1528 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also the memoirs of his colleague Walter Karbe.
  2. ^ Horst Börjesson: Scandal in the Elisabethstrasse. Dr. Gustav von Buchwald. In: Mecklenburg-Strelitz calendar. Vol. 2004 (2003), pp. 39-40.
  3. ^ Sophie Pataky : Lexicon of German women of the pen. A compilation of the works by female authors that have appeared since 1840, along with the biographies of the living and a list of pseudonyms. Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 492f. ( Full text )
personal data
SURNAME Buchwald, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchwald, Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, archivist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1920
Place of death Jena