Oskar Stavenhagen
Oskar Stavenhagen (born November 26, 1850 on Gut Sutten, Kabillen municipality , Talsen district , Courland ; † July 8, 1930 in Rostock ) was a German-Baltic historian and archivist.
Life
Oskar Stavenhagen was the son of the Baltic German Dr. med. Karl Stavenhagen and Charlotte Harff. He first attended Pastor Büttner's private school in Kabillen, then from 1864 to 1868 the Gouvernements-Gymnasium in Reval and in 1868 the Gouvernements-Gymnasium in Riga . In 1869 he worked as a private tutor in Kabillen and Kovno , then took up his history studies at the University of Dorpat . He continued his studies in 1871 at Georg Waitz at the Georg-August University continued and was built in 1872 in the Corps Teutonia Göttingen recipiert . He then sat in 1875–1878 at the University of Leipzig and in 1878 at the Albertus University in Königsberg . He worked as a private teacher in Talsen and Riga in 1878 and 1879 and then resumed his studies in Dorpat, in order to pursue it until 1885. In 1885 Stavenhagen passed his candidate and senior teacher exams in history and geography . He worked at the city archives in Reval and was from 1885 to 1892 senior teacher of history at the Knight and Cathedral School in Reval and from 1891 to 1892 at the girls' school founded by Elisabeth von der Howen (1834-1923) ("Howensche School") in Reval . From 1892 to 1903 Stavenhagen lived in Reval, Riga, Königsberg , Danzig , Berlin and Mitau . He wrote numerous scientific papers. In 1903 he was appointed director of the Kurländisches Landesarchiv in Mitau. From 1919 to 1923 he lived in Lübeck and from 1923 in Rostock. Oskar Stavenhagen remained single.
Memberships in scientific and literary societies
Since 1885 Stavenhagen was a corresponding member of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces of Russia in Riga, since 1894 a corresponding member of the Estonian Literary Society and a member of the board (until 1909) or member of the school commission of the Association of Germans in Courland, since 1910 also a member of the committee the Courland Society for Literature and Art .
Honors
- Honorary member of the Society for History and Archeology in Riga (1929)
Fonts
- Various treatises on Baltic history, especially the Middle Ages
- with Heinz Pirang: The Baltic mansion. 1926
editor
- with Leonid Arbusow : Files and Recesses of the Livonian Estates Days. Volume 1 (1304–1460), Riga 1907 (digitized version )
- Genealogical handbook of the Courland knighthood . Volume 1, Görlitz, undated (digitized version)
- Genealogical handbook of the Courland knighthood. Volume 2, Görlitz, undated (digitized version)
literature
- In memoriam In: Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knights , Part 3, 1: Kurland, Görlitz, 1939, pp. 13-14
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Oskar Stavenhagen. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. Dorpat 1889, p. 645, no.8781 (digitized version )
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 48/147.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stavenhagen, Oskar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic historian and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sutten, Courland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1930 |
| Place of death | Rostock |