Georg Heinrich Pertz

Georg Heinrich Pertz ( born March 28, 1795 in Hannover, † October 7, 1876 in Munich) was a German historian and librarian.

Life

Pertz was born in a half-timbered house in the wood market 2 in Hannover as the son of a Hofbuchbinders. He studied from 1813 History and Philology at the University of Göttingen and was awarded his doctorate on 14 October 1816.

Pertz was, since 1816, archivist and librarian in Hanover.

In 1819 he became a member of the Society of Germany's older history lesson, emerged from the Monumenta Historica Germaniae (MGH ). Here he devoted himself to the Carolingian sources.

After Pertz was first editor of the printed Friedrich Bernhard Culemann MGH, he was from 1823 to 1873 president of the MGH.

1827 to 1842 was director of the Royal Pertz and Provincial Library and the Royal Coin Cabinet in Hanover. In 1831 he was involved in the preparation of the new Basic Law and was 1832/33 deputy in the national assembly. In 1836 he was appointed foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

In addition, Pertz worked as an editor for the later published by Culemann Hanover newspaper in the years 1832-1837. Since 1842 he was chief librarian of the Royal Library in Berlin. He thwarted the Permanent Philipp Jaffé, whose suicide in 1870 damaged his reputation.

Honors

  • Pertz died on 7 October 1876 in Munich. His final resting place he found in the cemetery of Trinity Church II at the Bergmann in Berlin- Kreuzberg ( panel C). The grave will receive an honorary grave of Berlin.
  • The 1937 scale in Hanover Kleefeld area Pertzstraße honored posthumously by the historians their naming.

Works

  • Annales Sindelfingenses. In: Georg Heinrich Pertz (ed.): Annales aevi Suevici. Hiersemann, 1963 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, SS Volume 17 )
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