Date of death

Commemoration for the 20th anniversary of Heinrich Zille's death

The day a person died is the day they died . The time of death is usually confirmed in a document in a death certificate or a death certificate .

The anniversary of the deceased is also celebrated as a day of remembrance ( anniversaries ), on which numerous family, religious and public rites and customs exist. In Christianity , church foundations were created in the 11th century for the annual intercession of the deceased. Herders Conversations-Lexikon defined anniversaries as:

“Annual memorial service; In the church language is the Anniversarius, anniversary, the memory of a deceased on the day of his death, in St. Mass, also in Vigil and Libera. "

- Herder's Conversations Lexicon. Freiburg im Breisgau 1854, Volume 1, p. 199.

The day of death has a legal meaning with regard to the standard protection periods in copyright law and is described with the Latin phrase post mortem auctoris .

The oldest known days of death include those of some pharaohs:

• March 4, 1425 BC BC Thutmose III.
• June 27, 1213 BC Chr. Ramses II.
• December 17, 1188 BC Chr. Sethnacht
• April 7, 1156 BC Chr. Ramses III.
• February 9, 589 BC Chr. Psammetich II.

See also

• Year time
• obituary
• Posthumously

Web links

Wiktionary: day of death  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ E Götzinger: Reallexicon of German antiquities. Leipzig 1885, p. 24, (zeno.org)
2. ^ Herder's Conversations Lexicon. Freiburg im Breisgau 1854, Volume 1, p. 199. (zeno.org)