Ernst Strehlke

Ernst Strehlke (September 27, 1834, in Berlin – March 23, 1869, Berlin) was a German historian and archivist. He dedicated his rather short life to the history of the Teutonic Order.

Life Strehlke was born on September 27, 1834, in Berlin as the second son of Friedrich Strehlke, a professor at the Köllnisches Gymnasium, and his wife Antonie, nee Weiß. After his father was appointed director of the Danzig Petrischule in 1838, Strehlke attended his father's school and the Academic Gymnasium Danzig. There he encountered Theodor Hirsch, who awakened his interest in the history of Prussia. When Hirsch was commissioned by the Danzig Magistrate to reorganize the Danzig City Archives, he involved Strehlke in the work while he was still a student.

Studies Starting in 1852, Strehlke studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. He attended lectures by philosophers Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg and Karl Werder, philologists August Boeckh, Carl Eduard Geppert, Moriz Haupt, and Martin Hertz, historians Ernst Curtius, Siegfried Hirsch, Rudolf Köpke, Leopold von Ranke, and Wilhelm Wattenbach, Germanists Friedrich von der Hagen and Hans Ferdinand Maßmann, legal scholars Heinrich Eduard Dirksen, Rudolf von Gneist, Adolf Helfferich, and Carl Gustav Homeyer, as well as geographer Carl Ritter. During his studies, Strehlke served as an amanuensis at the library of the Prussian War Academy. Due to the onset of lung disease, he abandoned his desire to become a teacher. Contains: Di Kronike von Pruzinlant by Nikolaus von Jeroschin. Volume 1, Leipzig 1861. Zwei Fragmente einer kurzen Reimchronik von Preussen. Volume 2, Leipzig 1863. Kurze Preußische Annalen. 1190–1337. Volume 3, Leipzig 1866. Annales expeditialis Prussici. 1233–1414. Volume 3, Leipzig 1866. Franciscani Thorunensis Annales Prussici (941–1410). Volume 3, Leipzig 1866. Johanns von Posilge, Officials von Pomesanien, Chronik des Landes Preussen (von 1360 an, fortgesetzt bis 1419). Volume 3, Leipzig 1866. Zugleich mit den auf Preussen bezüglichen Abschnitten aus der Chronik Detmars von Lübeck. Volume 3, Leipzig 1866. Chronica terrae Prussiae 1029 (sc. 1098) – 1450. Volume 3, Leipzig 1866. Aus polnischen Annalen. Volume 3, Leipzig 1866. Über einen kürzlich aufgefundenen Siegelstempel Herzog Mestwins I. von Ostpommern. Volume 3, Leipzig 1866. Banderia Prutenorum. Volume 4, Leipzig 1870. Aufzeichnungen zur Geschichte des Bisthums Pomes Hartmann’s von Heldrungen, Hochmeisters des deutschen Ordens, Bericht über die Vereinigung des Schwertordens mit dem deutschen Orden und über die Erwerbung Livlands durch den letzteren. Riga 1865. Google Books. Über die Herkunft des Hochmeisters Winrich von Kniprode, in: Zeitschrift für Preußische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Band 5, Berlin 1868, pp. 401–405. Google Books. Tabulae Ordinis Theutonici (Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens), posthumously completed by Philipp Jaffé. 1869. Google Books. . Urkunden Herzog Mestwins II. Aus dem Gräflich Krockow’schen Familienarchive zu Krockow. In: Altpreußische Monatsschrift, Band 8, Königsberg i. Pr. 1871, pp. 633–642. Google Books. as editor Hermann von Wartberge – Chronicon Livoniae (The Livonian Chronicle of Hermann von Wartberge). Leipzig 1863. (Google Books)