Theodor von Mörner

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Theodor von Mörner (born April 20, 1817 in Habelschwerdt , Habelschwerdt district , province of Silesia ; † January 3, 1874 ) was a German historian and archivist .

Theodor was the son of a former officer and later administrator of the district treasury in Habelschwerdt. He attended grammar school in Schweidnitz from 1827 to 1834 . From 1835 he studied with Henrich Steffens , Leopold von Ranke and Friedrich Wilken in Berlin, among others . From 1839 to 1842 a serious illness prevented him from further studies. Then he continued his education in Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1844. When his application for a chair in Zurich failed in 1848, he left the university and worked for the "Hannoversche Zeitung" for some time before he began his career as an archivist in 1852. In March 1857 he became a secret archivist, in 1859 an archivist, in 1860 a second secret state archivist and in 1866 finally a secret archivist. His progressive illness prevented him from completing a planned work on Adam Graf von Schwarzenberg .

Theodor von Mörner remained unmarried.

Works

  • De Orosii vita eiusque historiarum libris septem adversus paganos, dissertation, Berlin, 1844
  • Markish war colonels of the seventeenth century, Hertz, Berlin 1861
  • Kurbrandenburg State Treaties from 1601 to 1700, G. Reimer, Berlin 1867 (reprint: de Gruyter, Berlin 1965)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Mörner, Theodor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Habelschwerdt
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1874