Carl Eduard Napiersky
Illustration — Karl Eduard von Napiersky Karl Eduard von Napiersky (21 May 1793, Riga – 2 September 1864, Riga) was a Latvian clergyman and historian. He studied theology at the Imperial University of Dorpat, and from 1814 onward, served as a pastor in the municipality of Neu-Pebalg. From 1829 to 1849 he was director of government schools and gymnasiums in Riga.
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Carl Eduard Napiersky
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- 1793
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- 1864
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- writer · historian
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- German
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Illustration — Karl Eduard von Napiersky Karl Eduard von Napiersky (21 May 1793, Riga – 2 September 1864, Riga) was a Latvian clergyman and historian. He studied theology at the Imperial University of Dorpat, and from 1814 onward, served as a pastor in the municipality of Neu-Pebalg. From 1829 to 1849 he was director of government schools and gymnasiums in Riga.
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In 1851 he became a member of the newly established censorship committee in Riga. He was an early member of the Lettisch-Literärische Gesellschaft (1827) and one of the founders of the Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Alterthumskunde der Ostseeprovinzen Rußlands (1833/34).
With Johann Friedrich von Recke, he published a four volume encyclopedia of Livonia, Estonia and Courland, titled Allgemeines Schriftsteller- und Gelehrten-Lexikon der provinzen Livland, Esthland und Kurland (1827–1832). His other noted literary efforts include: • Fortgesetzte Abhandlung von livländischen Geschichtschreibern: ein literar-historischer und bibliographischer Versuch, 1823 – Continued treatise of Livonian historians. • Index corporis historico-diplomatici Livoniae, Esthoniae, Curoniae, 1833. • Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchen und Prediger in Livland, 1843 – Contributions to the history of churches and preachers in Livonia. • Chronologischer Abriss der älteren Geschichte Livlands, 1848 – Chronological outline on the early history of Livonia. • Russisch-livländische Urkunden, 1868 – Russian-Livonian documents.
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