Leonid Arbusow (historian, 1882)

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Leonid Hans Nikolaus Arbusow ( Russian Леонид Леонидович Арбузов Leonid Leonidowitsch Arbusow ; born October 31, 1882 in Bauske , Kurland ; † February 16, 1951 in Göttingen ) was a German-Baltic historian and university professor.

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Leonid Arbusow was the son of the historian Leonid Arbusow and his wife Olga, born. Anschütz. From 1902 to 1906 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Dorpat and then from 1906 to 1909 history at the University of Göttingen . 1911 Arbusow was co-editor of the III. Department of the Livonian Document Book and in 1914 the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces commissioned him to work out a history of the Reformation of the Baltic States . After the First World War, he was full professor of history at the Latvian University of Riga from 1922 to 1936 and then, after being ousted from this chair, became a professor at the German Herder Institute in Riga until the Baltic Germans were resettled in 1939 as a result of the German-Soviet Non-aggression pact . From 1941 to 1945 Arbusow was a professor of medieval history at the University of Poznan . After the end of the war, like his colleague from Riga and Posen, Reinhard Wittram , he became a lecturer at the University of Göttingen. As a Medievalist , Arbusow dealt with the diplomacy of the medieval Baltic. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock in 1932 for his Reformation history in the Baltic region. He was married to Antonie, geb. Freiin von Vietinghoff -Scheel († 1920).

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  • Colores rhetorici. A selection of rhetorical figures and platitudes as aids for academic exercises on medieval texts . Göttingen 1948 (Second, increased edition by Helmut Peter, Göttingen 1963)
  • Old Livonian peasant law . In: Communications from Livonian History , Vol. XXIII. Riga, 1924–1926
  • The relationship of the Teutonic Order to the sale of indulgences since the 15th century: Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the high philosophical faculty of the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Riga 1909
  • The introduction of the Reformation in Liv, Estonia and Courland , Heinsius, Leipzig 1921
  • The handwritten tradition of the "Chronicon Livoniae" of Heinrich of Latvia . in: Latvijas universitātes raksti, 15–16, 1926–1927.
  • Latvia in the Younger Iron Age . Riga, 1924
  • Liturgy and historiography in the Middle Ages: explained in their relationships on the writings of Otto von Freising († 1158), Heinrichs Livlandchronik (1227) and the other mission stories of the Bremen ore district: Rimberts, Adams von Bremen, Helmolds . Bonn 1951
  • with Friedrich Georg von Bunge and Friedrich Benninghoven : Liv, Estonian and Courlandic document registers up to the year 1300 . Hamburg 1959
  • Livonia - Mark of the Empire 1207–1561: A section of German constitutional and legal history . Ostland, Riga 1944
  • with Albert Bauer : Heinrichs Livländische Chronik = Henrici chronicon Livoniae . Hanover 1955.
  • Roman work report, I-IV . 1928-1933.
  • Early history of Latvia . Riga, 1933.
  • Preliminary overview of the cartography of Old Livonia up to 1595 . Riga 1934.
  • Wolter von Plettenberg and the fall of the Teutonic Order in Prussia: a study from the Reformation period in Livonia . Leipzig 1919.

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SURNAME Arbusov, Leonid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arbusow, Leonid Hans Nikolaus; Arbusow, Leonid Leonidowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Bauske ( Kurland )
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1951
Place of death Goettingen