Heinrich Beyer

This article deals with the historian Heinrich Beyer. For other people see Heinrich Bayer .

Christian Heinrich Beyer (born August 4, 1806 in Erfurt , † September 16, 1886 in Stolberg (Harz) ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

After attending high school in his hometown, he took up the position of registrar in the Erfurt government of the Prussian province of Saxony . In 1824 he became an archive assistant and in 1832 an archive assistant at the Magdeburg Provincial Archives. In 1835 he moved to the Koblenz State Archives , where he was appointed archive registrar and, in 1840, became Prussian state archivist. From 1864 to 1871 he headed the Erfurt city ​​archive and then went to Stolberg to organize the archives, libraries and funeral sermons collections of the Counts of Stolberg-Stolberg and Stolberg-Roßla. He was a member of the Harz Association for History and Archeology and published several of his scientific papers.

Heinrich Beyer is the father of the Erfurt archivist and historian Carl Beyer (1848–1900).

Fonts

• Stolzenfels Castle. / From Heinr. Beyer / A souvenir for travelers on the Rhine. With a steel engraving view and four sheets with painted coat of arms / Coblenz . Hölscher, 1842. ( digitized from dilibri.de).
• Erfurt Cathedral. Reminder sheets for locals and foreigners. Self-published, Erfurt 1867.
• History of the Ursuline convent, formerly the white women, in Erfurt. Self-published, Erfurt 1867.
• Short history of the collegiate church Beatae Mariae Virginis in Erfurt: with the use of partly still unknown sources, with a note ue sketch of the church a. their environment. Villaret, Erfurt 1873.
• Directory of vassals of the County of Königstein . (Manuscript in the State Archive of Saxony-Anhalt ).
• Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories that now form the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier. Edited from the sources by Heinrich Beyer. First volume. From the oldest times to the year 1169 . Coblenz, on commission from J. Hölscher. 1860. Continued volumes: Leopold Eltester (2nd volume), 1865. Adam Görz (3rd volume), 1874. Volumes 4 and 5 were written by Albert Hardt and published in 2007 under the title Document Book for the History of the Middle Rhine Territories ( digital copy on dilibri.de )