Karl Eduard von Napiersky

Carl Eduard von Napiersky

Karl Eduard von Napiersky (born May 21, 1793 in Riga ; † September 2, 1864 there ) was a Livonian literary historian.

Life

Karl Eduard Napiersky was the son of Jakob Napiersky, an oak burner, and Johanna Helene Ölfeld. He attended the cathedral school and the governorate high school in Riga and studied theology in Dorpat from 1810 to 1812 . From 1814 to 1829 he worked as a pastor in Neu-Pebalg . He then returned to Riga and until his retirement in 1849 was the governorate school director and director of the governorate grammar school, as well as at times a “separate censor ”.

Napiersky was often organized and active as a scientific and historical autodidact . 1823 was a full member of the Courland Society for Literature and Art . In 1827 he was one of the founders of the Latvian Literary Society , where he was a corresponding member since 1842 and an honorary member in 1843. In 1832 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. Hcd) from the University of Königsberg . From 1836 to 1837 he was treasurer, from 1840 to 1849 co-director and from 1853 to 1860 president of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia in Riga. As early as 1838 Napiersky became an honorary member of the Historical Society in Wetzlar and Münster and the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg . Since 1843 he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and since 1849 honorary member of the Estonian Scholarly Society . Since 1851 Napiersky was a member of Rigischen censorship committee and was 1852 in the position of an Imperial Russian lifted the State Council, which, according to the ranking table at that time still a hereditary ennoblement equaled. In 1857 he was honored with the Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class.

family

In 1815 he married Louise Girgensohn, daughter of Christopher Reinhold Girgensohn (1752-1814), pastor and editor of the Latvian hymn book for Livonia, and Dorothea Renata Elisabeth Fitkau († 1802). The marriage had two sons:

Leonhard von Napiersky (1819–1890), legal historian, council secretary and councilor in Riga
August von Napiersky (1823–1885), meteorologist, high school teacher, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Fonts

Continued treatise by Livonian historians . Mitau 1823 ( books.google.de )
General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , Mitau Volume 1 1826; Volume 2 1829; Volume 3 1831; Volume 4 1832; 1859-1860
The campaign in the Netherlands . Leipzig 1830 ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11021263-6 )
Chronological Conspect of Latvian Literature from 1587 to 1830 . Mitau 1831 ( books.google.de )
De diplomate, quo Albertus, episcopus Livoniae, declaratur princeps . Riga 1832
Index corporis historicodiplomatici Livoniae, Esthoniae et Curoniae . Riga / Dorpat 1833–1835
Monumenta Livoniae antiquae . 1833-1835
Addendum. Monumentae Livoniae Antiquae . Riga / Leipzig 1839 ( books.google.de )
Contributions to the history of the churches and preachers in Livonia . Riga / Mitau 1843–1852
- Livonian church and preacher registers, Riga 1843 ( e-copy ).
- Life news from the Livonian preachers, with literary evidence
  - Part I: A – G , Mitau 1850 ( E-copy )
  - Part II: G – P , Mitau 1851 ( e-copy )
Animadversiones nonnullae ad Silvam documentorum. Scriptores rerum livonicarum . 1848
Antonio Possevino Livoniae Commentarius . Riga 1852
Russian-Livonian documents . St. Petersburg 1868

literature

Thomas M. Bohn : Napiersky, Karl Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 731 f. ( Digitized version ).
Heinrich Julius Böthführ : Napiersky, Karl Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 250-253.
Napie'rsky, Karl Eduard . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 19 : Mykenai-Norrpada . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 437-438 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Gert von Pistohlkors : Johann Friedrich von Recke (1764–1846) and Karl Eduard von Napiersky (1793–1864) - their efforts to comprehensively record Livonian historical literature. In: Cultural history of the Baltic countries in the early modern period . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-484-36587-0 , pp. 441–462 ( Google Books )
Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 952-957 .

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Karl Eduard von Napiersky. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Karl Eduard Napiersky at EEVA (digital text collection of older literature)
Norbert Angermann : Karl Eduard von Napiersky . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
Karl Eduard Napiersky in the CERL Thesaurus
Karl Eduard Napiersky at the Munich Digitization Center

Individual evidence

↑ Braker entry in the Baltic Legal Dictionary of the Baltic Historical Commission
↑ See the imprimatur note named by the "Rigische Censur-Comités" on the verso of the title page of the Kurländische Güter-Chroniken according to documented sources by Friedrich von Klopmann , Volume 1, Mitau 1856 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Napiersky, Karl Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Napiersky, Karl Eduard; Napiersky, Carl Eduard; Napiersky, Carolus Eduardus; Napierskij, Karl-Eduard Jakowitsch; Napiersky, Carl Eduard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Livonian literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 21, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH	Riga
DATE OF DEATH	September 2, 1864
Place of death	Riga

[1] Braker entry in the Baltic Legal Dictionary of the Baltic Historical Commission

[2] See the imprimatur note named by the "Rigische Censur-Comités" on the verso of the title page of the Kurländische Güter-Chroniken according to documented sources by Friedrich von Klopmann , Volume 1, Mitau 1856 ( digitized version ).