Max Perlbach

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Max Perlbach (born November 4, 1848 in Danzig ; † February 18, 1921 ) was a German librarian and historian .

Life

Max Perlbach was born on November 4, 1848 in Danzig, the son of a businessman. When his father died, his mother moved with him to Wroclaw . He grew up in Breslau and attended the Königliche Friedrichs-Gymnasium there from 1860 to 1868. Perlbach initially studied history at the University of Breslau and then at the University of Göttingen , where he in 1871 with a dissertation on the older chronicle of Oliva Dr. phil. PhD.

Perlbach embarked on the career of a librarian at academic libraries. From 1872 he worked first in Königsberg , then from 1876 in Greifswald and from 1883 in Halle . In 1903 he became department director of the catalog department at the Royal Library in Berlin . At the end of 1913, Perlbach retired. He died on February 18, 1921.

Services

Perlbach's real accomplishments lie in researching the history of Prussia . He wrote articles on the history of what he called his “second home”, Silesia . Above all, however, he researched his “first home”, Prussia proper ( West Prussia , East Prussia ).

In 1873 he denied with his essay The oldest Prussian documents critically examined the authenticity of the Kruschwitz Treaty, which was important for the development of the Teutonic Order . This thesis, which has been disproved since 1980, had met with great approval from Polish historians.

The Pomeranian document book created and published by Perlbach is still today the essential collection of documents relating to the history of Pomerania .

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • The Oliva Chronicle of Oliva (dissertation). Göttingen 1871 ( full text )
  • About the results of the Lviv manuscript for the older chronicle of Oliva . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode, volume 9, Königsberg i. Pr. 1872, pp. 18-40.
  • On the history of the oldest Prussian bishops . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode, volume 9, Königsberg i. Pr. 1872, pp. 550-565 and pp. 628-652.
  • On a Polish memorandum from the time of the Thirteen Years' War . In: New Prussian provincial leaves Fourth consequence . Volume 10, Königsberg 1873, pp. 566-578 .
  • The oldest Prussian documents. Critically examined. In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode, volume 10, Königsberg i. Pr. 1873, pp. 609-648 .
  • Prussian regests up to the end of the 13th century . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode, volume 11, Königsberg i. Pr. 1874, pp. 1-32 , pp. 97-128 , pp. 326-348 , pp. 385-432 , pp. 546-572 and pp. 609-624 ; Volume 12, Königsberg i. Pr. 1875, pp. 1-26 , pp. 97-144 , pp. 193-216 , pp. 319-344 , pp. 385-428 and pp. 5. 577-645. ( Name register, pp. 585–636 )
  • The older documents from the Wallenrodt library in Königsberg . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode, volume 11, Königsberg i. Pr. 1874, pp. 262-278 .
  • An attempt at a history of the University Library in Greifswald. 1st issue. L. Bamberg, Greifswald 1882 ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  • Mestwin II. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Volume 21, Leipzig 1885, pp. 504–506 .
  • On the history of the book industry in the Order of Prussia . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 11 (1894), pp. 153-162 ( online ).
  • Pomeranian document book. Bertling, Danzig 1881-1916. (Reprint: Scientia, Aalen 1969)
  • The Book of the Dead of the Zuckau Premonstratensian Monastery near Gdansk. Sources and representations on the history of West Prussia, No. 5. Danzig 1908. (Reprint: Nicolaus-Copernicus-Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 3-924238-39-1 )

literature

  • Arno Mentzel-Reuters : Max Perlbach as a historical researcher. In: Prussia. Volume 45 (2007), ISSN  0032-7972 , pp. 39-53. (there also complete list of Perlbach's publications with 106 titles)

Web links

Wikisource: Max Perlbach  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arno Mentzel-Reuters: Max Perlbach as a historical researcher. In: Prussia. Volume 45 (2007), ISSN  0032-7972 , p. 47, with reference to Gerard Labuda: The documents about the beginnings of the Teutonic Order in the Kulmerland. In: Josef Fleckenstein (Hrsg.): The spiritual orders of knights of Europe. Sigmaringen 1980, pp. 299-316.
  2. ↑ Meeting reports of the Society for the History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces of Russia from 1905 , Riga 1906, p. 129.
personal data
SURNAME Perlbach, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1921