Carl Eduard 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. 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). 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.