Leonid Alexandrovich Arbusov

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Leonid Alexandrovich Arbuzov ( Russian Леонид Александрович Арбузов ), (born January 7 . Jul / 19th January  1848 greg. In Mitau , Courland Governorate , Russian Empire , † January 1 jul. / 14. January  1912 greg. On Sassenhof in Riga ) was a Russian historian who devoted himself to the history of the Baltic States after Livonia was sailed .

family

Leonid Arbusow came from a Russian noble family , his parents were the Russian lieutenant Alexander Arbusow († 1855) and Natalja Tschudowskaja. He grew up as an orphan in the house of Magnus Georg Paucker (* 1787; † 1855) in Mitau and married Olga Anschütz in 1881 in Bauske . The historian Leonid Hans Nikolaus Arbusow (* 1882, † 1951) was his son.

Career

Arbusow attended schools in Wiborg , Mitau and Dorpat . He began his studies, initially zoology , in Dorpat in 1867 , but then quickly switched to medicine in Leipzig , which he continued in Dorpat until 1871. Then from 1871 to 1873 stud. rer. nat. and from 1873 to 1876 stud. hist. in Göttingen with Georg Waitz .

From 1877 to 1885 he first accepted a position as a scientific district school teacher in Bauske, from 1885 to 1888 he was district school inspector in Tuckum , then a private scholar in Mitau.

In 1893 he was elected editor of Section II of the Livonian Deed Book by the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia . In 1889 he was a corresponding member and since 1894 co-director of the Society for History and Archeology. Later, in 1898, he was also a corresponding member and since 1909 honorary member of the Genealogical Society of the Baltic Sea Provinces. Finally, from 1900 he was also a corresponding member of the Kurland Society for Literature and Art .

Arbusow lived in Sassenhof near Riga from 1893 until his death.

Appreciation

With his frequently reissued and constantly expanded work Plan of the History of Livonia, Estonia and Courland , Arbusow made an outstanding and essential contribution to the knowledge of Baltic history for the older times up to the 18th century. Another highlight is his research on Livonia's medieval personality. The news he has compiled about around 1000 Brothers of the Teutonic Order and more than 5000 clergy and officials from Altlivland represent one of the important foundations for the cultural and historical development of the Livonian Middle Ages.

Works

author
  • Floor plan of the history of Liv, Estonia and Courland , Mitau-Riga 1889
  • The oldest Wittschop book in the city of Reval (1312–1360) , 1890
  • The families represented in the Teutonic Order in Livonia , Mitau 1901
  • Livonia's clergy from the end of the 12th to the 16th centuries , Mitau 1902
editor
  • Liv-, Est- and Kurländisches Urkundenbuch , II. Dept., Vol. 1 to 3 (1494–1510), Riga 1900–1914
  • Liv-, Est- and Kurländisches Urkundenbuch , III. Dept. (files and reviews of the Livonian Estates Days), Vol. 3 (Plettenberg-Vol.), Riga 1910

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personal data
SURNAME Arbusow, Leonid Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Арбузов, Леонид Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian historian who devoted himself to the history of the Baltic States after Livonia was sailed
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitau , Courland Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1912
Place of death Sassenhof