Otto-Heinrich Elias

Otto-Heinrich Elias (born April 27, 1932 in Glauchau ; † July 8, 2020 in Mühlacker ) was a German historian and editor .

Life

After graduating from high school in Glauchau in 1950, today Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium Glauchau, he began an apprenticeship as a gardener, completed with a journeyman's examination; afterwards he studied German and history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Philipps-Universität Marburg , where he also received his PhD. phil. PhD . As managing director of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg , he worked in Stuttgart from 1970–1996.

Own publications were made about Vaihingen an der Enz , the Württemberg royal family , Glauchau and Saxony as well as the poet August von Kotzebue .

family

Elias was married and had four children. He was a great-grandson of Arthur Lossow .

Publications (selection)

• Reval in the reform policy of Katharinas II. (Sources and studies on Baltic history 3) 1978. (Diss. Marburg 1970).
• King Wilhelm I (1816–1864). In: 900 Years of House Württemberg, Ed. Robert Uhland. 1984. pp. 306-327.
• Friedrich Georg Ludwig Lindner. Doctor, secret agent, publicist (1772-1845), (Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia 15) 1983. pp. 155–202.
• August von Kotzebue as a political poet. In: Baltic literatures in the time of Goethe. Edited by Heinrich Bosse, Otto-Heinrich Elias and Thomas Taterka. Würzburg 2011. pp. 255-289.
• August von Kotzebue as a novelist. In: August von Kotzebue. A contentious and controversial author. Eds. Alexander Košenina, Harry Liivrand, Kristel Pappel. Hanover 2017. pp. 67–85.
• August von Kotzebue as a historian. In: August von Kotzebue in the Estonian-German dialogue. Edited by Klaus Gerlach, Harry Liivrand, Kristel Pappel. Hanover 2016. pp. 118–142.
• Crowned poets and occasional poets in the Schönburg dominions. In: New Archive of Saxon History, Volume 89. Neustadt an der Eich 2018. pp. 283–307.

Web links

• Literature by Otto-Heinrich Elias in the catalog of the French National Library
• Bibliography overview at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association
• Information page on the Baltic Legal Dictionary 1710–1940 of the Baltic Historical Commission
• Review Heinrich Bosse / Otto-Heinrich Elias / Thomas Taterka (eds.): Baltic literatures in Goethe's time on the website of the review journal sehepunkte
• Article on the situation of the non-German population in Riga in the 18th century on JSTOR
• Review of the essay The “Unbeliever” in the legal and cultural history of the 18th century . Edited by Ulrich Kronauer / Andreas Deutsch. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015. 490 pp. = Academy Conferences, 20th ISBN 978-3-8253-6532-5 , on the website of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Research in Regensburg
• Baltic genealogical booklets, No. 1, 2007, Csaba János Kenéz TALLINNA KODANIKERAAMAT 1786–1796 THE REVAL CITIZENS 'BOOK Tallinn 2006, EXTENDED REGISTER, edited by Otto-Heinrich Elias and Kurt Miram, Darmstadt 2007, (full version as PDF).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice , in: Freie Presse , Glauchau edition of July 15, 2020, p. 10.