Werner Konstantin von Arnswaldt

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Werner Constantin Hermann William von Arnswaldt , modernized Werner Konstantin von Arnswaldt , (born November 17, 1877 in Wiedenhausen ; † March 17, 1941 ) was a German genealogist and author.

Life

Werner von Arnswaldt comes from the Thuringian noble family von Arnswaldt . He was the son of Hans August Friedrich Eduard Carl von Arnswaldt, who was a royal Hanoverian hunter a. D. and manor owner and was married to Marieanna Ida Victoria, born von Tschirschky and Boegendorff.

He attended private schools in Ahlden and Gartow as well as high schools in Celle, Bückeburg, Rinteln and Osnabrück. He then studied at the universities of Freiburg, Munich, Göttingen, Rostock, Innsbruck, Heidelberg, Halle and Leipzig. He served as a volunteer in Munich for two years. He then went on extensive recreational and educational trips across Europe.

From 1905 to 1908 Werner von Arnswaldt was a trainee at the House and State Archives in Darmstadt, before he worked for three years at the Central Office for German Personal and Family History in Leipzig. After returning from the First World War, he devoted himself as a private scholar to intensive research into the history of his family and published several publications about it.

He spent the last years of his life in Fischbeck Abbey on the Weser.

Publications (selection)

  • From the history of the Varrentrapp family , Frankfurt am Main, 1908.
  • The Doerriens , Leipzig, 1910.
  • The bushes in the county of Schaumburg . In: Vierteljahresschrift für Wappen, Siegel, Familienkunde, 44, 1916, pp. 226–232.
  • The engraver. A genealogical sketch of a family's rise . In: Quarterly publication for coat of arms, seal and family studies, ed. from the “Herold” association in Berlin, XLVI. Born in Berlin 1918.
  • About funeral sermons , Leipzig, 1926.
  • Fischbeck Abbey on the Weser , Wienhausen, 1928.
  • Family table Girsewald (1464–1818) , based on feudal deeds , church records and other sources, Leipzig, 1933.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Werner Konstantin von Arnswaldt. In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 18, 1941, pp. 334–335.
personal data
SURNAME Arnswaldt, Werner Konstantin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnswaldt, Werner Constantin Hermann William von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genealogist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiedenhausen
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1941