D'elvert, Christian Ritter von°

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D'ELVERT, CHRISTIAN RITTER VON°

D'ELVERT, CHRISTIAN RITTER VON ° (1803–1896), Moravian historian and politician. He was mayor of Bruenn (Brno) from 1861 to 1863 and 1870 to 1876, and headed the historical section of the Moravian society for local research. The fourth volume of his Beitraege zur oesterreichischen Rechtsgeschichte entitled Zur Geschichte der Juden in Maehren und Oesterreichisch-Schlesien ("On the History of the Jews in Moravia and Austrian Silesia," 1895), with almost full bibliography, and his publication of the index numbers of all the documents in the archives of the Moravian regent concerning Jews, remain important for research on Moravian Jewry.

bibliography:

Oesterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950, 1 (1957), 176–7; B. Bretholz, in: adb, 47 (1903), 653–5.

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