Peter Christoph Sternberg

Peter Christoph Sternberg (born December 7, 1823 in Trier , † October 30, 1864 in Cologne ) was a German journalist and private scholar . His parents were Christoph Sternberg and Anna Gertrud Feilen. He was married to Maria Margarethe, geb. Post Office. There was a daughter from the marriage.

Life

The journalist and private scholar Peter Christoph Sternberg came from a respected butcher family in Trier. From 1845 to 1848 he worked for the Trier intelligence paper . There he published historical articles on the ancient and medieval history of the city. From 1848 to 1850 editor, at times also editor and publisher of the socialist-anti-Prussian Trierische Volksblatt . On May 1, 1848, the editor Sternberg was elected as the elector of the radical democratic party to help determine the Trier representatives in the Frankfurt National Assembly . During this politically troubled time he came into conflict with the Prussian authorities at times. From 1851 to 1857, as a private scholar, he wrote several writings on Trier and Rhineland antiquity. During this time he corresponded with Jacob Grimm. From 1857 he was editor of the weekly newspaper General German Telegraph in Stuttgart, published by Ludwig Gall from Trier . During this time he mainly dealt with economic and social issues. He later became the main agent of the Allgemeine Rentenanstalt in Cologne. As a "learned universal dilettante" he was not only the author of historical treatises as well as lyrical and edifying writings, but also of studies on phonology and writing theory, universal language, the coding of telegraphic messages, the history of the number system and critical presentations on the world of work and social conditions.

Fonts

Snowdrops: Poetic Attempts . Trier 1846.
An old inscription on Trier Cathedral. In: Trier'sches Intellektivenblatt, No. 138 of June 13, 1847.
New research on the High German phonetics and testing of the High German writing theory: The vocal sounds and melting sounds. Volume 1. Self-published in Trier 1853.
About the origin of Mainz, Bonn and Coeln. Trier 1853. Reprint 2010. ISBN 1160037191 .
Trier and its antiquities. A guide for locals and foreigners. 3 editions, Trier 1854–1856.
Attempt of a legal theory of the property of the Roman Catholic Church according to the most respected modern Catholic canon law teachers and the papal practice in the Austrian Concordat. With an afterword, concerning current errors of scholars and judges, namely the factual lack of law in questions of church property in the Prussian Rhineland. Dedicated to all German friends of peace, legalism, religious and civil liberty. Stuttgart 1860.
The inevitable necessity of a thorough reform of the grammar schools. Evidence of the pernicious effectiveness of the grammar schools in Trier, Coblenz and Bonn is documented in the records. 1860.

literature

Heinz Monz: Ludwig Gall. Life and work. Trier 1979. pp. 192-206.
Jürgen Merten: Peter Christoph Sternberg . In: Monz, Heinz (Ed.): Trier Biographical Lexicon. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2000. ISBN 3884764004

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Individual evidence

↑ The history of the city of Trier from its foundation to the present. Trier 1915. p. 832.
↑ See: The estate of the Brothers Grimm : Catalog, Volume 1, p. 567.

personal data
SURNAME	Sternberg, Peter Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sternberg, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and private scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	December 7, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH	trier
DATE OF DEATH	October 30, 1864
Place of death	Cologne

[1] The history of the city of Trier from its foundation to the present. Trier 1915. p. 832.

[2] See: The estate of the Brothers Grimm : Catalog, Volume 1, p. 567.