Ludwig Schmitz-Kallenberg (10 June 1867, in

Rheydt Rheydt () is a borough of the Germany, German city Mönchengladbach, located in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia. Until 1918 and then again from 1933 (due to a split from Mönchengladbach arranged by Joseph Goebbels, who was born there) through ...

– 22 April 1937, in

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...

) was a German

archivist An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to Document, records and archives determined to have long-term value. The records maintained by an archivist c ...

and historian of

Westphalia Westphalia (; german: Westfalen ; nds, Westfalen ) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has an area of and 7.9 million inhabitants. The territory of the regio ...

. He studied history at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

, Münster Academy and

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, receiving his doctorate in 1891. In 1893 he took a study trip to

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via a scholarship from the

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, and from 1896 worked as an archivist for the Historical Commission for Westphalia. In 1899 he became a lecturer at Münster, where in 1918 he was named an honorary full professor. From 1921 to 1932 he served as director of the state archives in Münster.Schmidt - Theyer
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Walther Killy Walther Killy (26 August 191728 December 1995) was a German literary scholar who specialised in poetry, especially that of Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Georg-August-Universität Göttinge ...

''Dictionary of German Biography'' He was an editor of journals ''Westfalen'' (1909–25) and ''Westfälische Zeitschrift'' (1923–25), and from 1915 to 1926 edited the ''Geschichtliche Darstellungen und Quellen'' ("Historical Representations and Sources").

Selected works

* ''Geschichte der Herrschaft Rheydt'', 1897 – History of the dominion of Rheydt. * ''Inventare der nichtstaatlichen Archive des Kreises Ahaus'', 1899 – Inventories of the non-state archives of

Ahaus Ahaus (; Westphalian: ''Ausen'') is a town in the district of Borken in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, lying some 20 km south-east of Enschede and 15 km south from Gr ...

. * ''Urkunden des fürstlich Salm-Salm'schen Archives in Anholt, des fürstlich Salm-Horstmar'schen Archives in Coesfeld und der herzoglich Croy'schen Domänenadministration in Dülmen'' (1902–04) – Documents of the princely

Salm-Salm The Principality of Salm-Salm (german: Fürstentum Salm-Salm; french: Principauté de Salm-Salm) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was located in the present-day French departments of Bas-Rhin and Vosges; it was one of a number of partitions ...

archives in Anholt, the princely

Salm-Horstmar Salm-Horstmar was a short-lived Napoleonic County in far northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located around Horstmar, to the northeast of Münster. It was created in 1803 for Wild- and Rhinegrave Frederick Charles Augustus of Salm-Grumbach ...

archives in

Coesfeld Coesfeld (; Westphalian: ''Koosfeld'') is the capital of the district of Coesfeld in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. History Coesfeld received its city rights in 1197, but was first recorded earlier than that in the biography of St ...

and the ducal Croy domain administration in

Dülmen Dülmen () is a town in the district of Coesfeld (district), Coesfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Dülmen is situated in the south part of the Münsterland area, between the Lippe (river), Lippe river to the south, the Baumberge ...

. * ''Die Lehre von den Papsturkunden'', 1906 – The doctrine of papal documents. * ''Urkundenlehre'' (3 volumes, 1907–11, with Wilhelm Erben and

Oswald Redlich Oswald Redlich (17 September 1858, in Innsbruck – 20 January 1944, in Vienna) was an Austrian historian and archivist, known for contributions made in the field of auxiliary sciences of history.Historiography Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians ha ...

and sources of German history up until 1500. * ''Inventare der nichtstaatlichen Archive des Kreises Büren'', 1915 – Inventories of the non-state archives of the district of Büren. * ''Monumenta Budicensia: Quellen zur Geschichte des Augustiner-Chorherrenstiftes Bödeken in Westfalen'', 1815 – Monumenta Budicensia: Sources of the history of the Augustinian monastery Bödeken in Westphalia.Schmitz-Kallenberg, Ludwig Alfons Hubert (1867-1937)
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