Otto Meinardus

Otto Meinardus (born May 4, 1854 in Jever , † May 24, 1918 in Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia ) was a German historian , archivist and editor .

Life

Inaugural - Dissertation of Oldenburgers of 1878 on the role of Leibniz and the personal union between Britain and Hanover

During his studies Meinardus became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity in 1874 . At the end of his university studies, Otto Meinardus, then Oldenburg, published in 1878 his “ Inaugural - Dissertation to Obtain a Philosophical Doctorate at the University of Göttingen ”, printed by Gerhard Stalling , in which he wrote under the title “The Succession of the House of Hanover in England and Leibniz [as ...] contribution to the criticism of Dr. Onno Klopp ” dealt with the creation of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover through the activities of Leibniz.

Meinardus entered the Prussian state service in the Secret State Archives in Berlin in 1885 . On October 1, 1894, he was transferred to the Wiesbaden State Archives . In Wiesbaden he was the decisive impetus for the establishment of the Historical Commission for Nassau . In July 1900 he moved to Danzig . Two years earlier it had been decided to relocate the State Archives of West Prussia to Danzig and Meinardus was commissioned as acting director to set up this archive, which opened on April 1, 1901 and was headed by Max Bär until 1912 .

Later Meinardus was an archivist in Breslau ( Lower Silesia ).

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Part of the estate of Otto Meinardus in the Hessian Main State Archive, Wiesbaden

Works

The biography written by Konrad Wutke (see literature ) contains a three-page list of publications with 41 items (pages 26–28).

literature

Wolf-Heino Struck : Ninety Years of the Historical Commission for Nassau . In: Nassauische Annalen , Volume 98, 1987. pp. 251-272
Konrad Wutke : Otto Meinardus. A picture of life . In: Journal of the Association for History of Silesia , Volume 53, Issue 1/1919, Pages 1–28

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Meinardus - Sources and full texts

as a biographer in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB)

Literature by and about Otto Meinardus in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

^ Gustav Heinrich Schneider : The fraternity Germania zu Jena. A commemorative publication. Jena 1897, p. 572.
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personal data
SURNAME	Meinardus, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian, archivist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 4, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jever , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 1918
Place of death	Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia

[1] Gustav Heinrich Schneider : The fraternity Germania zu Jena. A commemorative publication. Jena 1897, p. 572.

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