Xaver Frölich

Franz Xaver Frölich (born April 25, 1822 in Heilsberg , East Prussia , † February 15, 1898 in Graudenz , West Prussia ) was a German archivist and local historian.

Life

Frölich was the city archivist of Graudenz and a chancellery. He wrote about the history of West Prussia for about fifty years and died at the age of 75.

Honors

• Honorary citizen of the city of Graudenz

Works (selection)

• The witch trials in Graudenz . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Third episode. Volume 10, Königsberg 1863, pp. 104-124.
• Bourgeois life in Graudenz during the first half of the 17th century . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode. Volume 5, Königsberg 1868, pp. 1-47.
• History of the Graudenzer Kreis . Graudenz 1868–1872.
  • Volume 1: The gradual shaping of basic conditions and property rights, the emergence, population, administration and cohesion of the district localities, the emergence of urban and rural communal systems, nobility rights, taxation, military, church and school systems and the judiciary . 2nd edition, 1884 ( e-copy )
  • Volume 2: The history of time and culture. Represented from existing documents and archival news . Graudenz 1872 ( e-copy ).
• Political poetry from Poland. Prussia, belonging to the years 1697–1707 . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode. Volume 7, Königsberg 1870, pp. 535-544.
• The oldest Schöppenbuch in the Graudenzer Archive . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode. Volume 8, Koenigsberg 1971, pp. 427-450.
• Names and origins of the foreigners who became resident citizens of Graudenz in the years 1606–1773 . In: Old Prussian monthly . New series, Volume 12, Königsberg 1. Pr. 1875, pp. 542-547.

literature

• Old Prussian monthly . Volumes 35–36, Königsberg 1898, p. 175.