Paul Bailleu

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Paul Bailleu (born January 21, 1853 in Magdeburg , † June 25, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German historian and archivist .

Life

Paul Bailleu was born in Neustadt-Magdeburg in 1853 as the son of the glove maker Julius Bailleu (whose ancestors belonged to a Walloon Reformed community that moved from Mannheim to Magdeburg at the end of the 17th century ) and his wife Ida Ohage.

He was trained at the elementary school in Magdeburg; Even at this time he suffered from a hip joint disease . From 1860 to 1870 he attended the grammar school of the monastery Our Dear Women in Magdeburg. He then studied philology at the University of Göttingen from 1870 and history at the University of Berlin the following year . In 1873 he began his three-year service as secretary of Leopold von Ranke . In 1876 he became an archivist at the Secret State Archives in Berlin after he had received his doctorate in philosophy in 1874 . Promoted to archives secretary in 1880, four years later he became secret state archivist, in 1890 archivist and 1900 secret archivist. In 1906 he was finally appointed second director of the Prussian State Archives . In 1921 he retired .

Paul Bailleu died in Berlin in 1922 at the age of 69. He is known for his archive research and his biography of Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Queen Luise), for which he received the Verdun Prize in 1913 .

Bailleu worked for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , for which he wrote 20 articles. He also held several functions within the general association of German history and antiquity associations , the association for the history of the Mark Brandenburg and the Berlin historical society .

Works

  • Quomodo Appianus in bellorum civilium libris II – V usus sit Asinii Pollionis historiis (Göttingen 1874)
  • Talleyrand's correspondence with Louis XVIII. during the Vienna Congress (1881)
  • Prussia and France from 1795 to 1807.Diplomatic correspondence (two volumes; 1881 to 1887)
  • The Prussian Court in 1798 (1897)
  • Correspondence between King Friedrich Wilhelm III. and Queen Luise with Emperor Alexander I (1900)
  • Queen Luise. A picture of life (1908) ( online )
  • From the literary estate of Empress Augusta (two volumes; 1912)

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personal data
SURNAME Bailleu, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1922
Place of death Berlin