Paul Freiherr von der Osten-Sacken

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Paul Freiherr von der Osten-Sacken (born August 24, 1880 in Mitau , † July 25, 1934 in Riga ) was a German-Baltic historian and archivist.

Life

Paul von der Osten-Sacken was the son of Julius Freiherr von der Osten-Sacken from the House of Pewicken (Kurland), the director of the Chancellery of the Courland Governorate and Council of State, and his wife Helene, née. Sprinkler.

After completing school at the Stavenhagen private school in Mitau (until 1894), at the Eltz private high school and at the city high school in Riga, he completed his military service in the Caucasus. He then began studying history in Dorpat from 1902 to 1904 , and continued his studies from 1904 to 1906 in St. Petersburg, where he graduated with the state examination. In 1906 he was in Berlin with a thesis on Russian Livonian relations during the reign of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vitovt Dr. phil. PhD. From 1908 to 1909 he worked as a teacher at his old school, the private high school in Eltz and at the von Hasford girls' school in Riga. Paul von der Osten-Sacken married Karin Nelissen von Haken on January 2, 1909.

In addition to his educational activities, he was appointed secretary of the Society for History and Archeology in Riga and finally he succeeded in switching to the archivist profession: in 1909 he became archivist of the Estonian Knighthood in Reval , an activity that he carried out until the end of the First World War in 1918 . He was also the director of the History and Classification Section of the Estonian Literary Society. It is thanks to him that parts of the archive of the Estonian governorate administration were saved from the chaos of war.

In the last days of the war he first fled to Lübeck, where he started working at the city ​​archive (1918 to approx. 1922). By 1924 he opened up the documents and files of the Brincke estate archive in the Westphalian town of Borgholzhausen with Count Korff, known as Schmising- Kerssenbrock . He then returned to Courland and initially worked from 1924 to 1925 as a vicariate teacher and from 1925 as a teacher at the Luther School in Riga. He was also the secretary of the German Parents' Association.

Fonts

  • Livonian-Russian relations during the reign of Grand Duke Vitovt of Lithuania . Häcker, Riga 1908.
  • On the surrender of the Estonian knights and landscape on September 29, 1710 . Kluge & Ströhm. Reval 1910.
  • The Estonian knighthood in the first year of Russian rule . Jonck & Poliewsky, Riga 1911.
  • The struggle of the Livonian cities for dominance in the Hanseatic office in Novgorod until 1442 . Revalsche Zeitung publishing house, Reval 1912.
  • Report on the Estonian Knighthood Archives . JF Steffenhagen and son, Mitau 1913.

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SURNAME Osten-Sacken, Paul Freiherr von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitau
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1934
Place of death Riga