Peter Friedrich Arpe

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Peter Friedrich Arpe
Born(1682-10-05)5 October 1682
Died4 November 1740(1740-11-04) (aged 58)
Schwerin, Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empire
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Legal writer
Art collector
Historian
Lawyer

Peter Friedrich Arpe (10 May 1682, Kiel - 4 November 1740, Schwerin) was a German lawyer, historian and legal writer. [1] He was also the founder of a huge collection of objects and manuscripts on the history of Schleswig-Holstein, [2] though his collection also included banned theological works. [3] He also wrote and collected under the Latinised form of his name, Petrus Fridericus Arpius.

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Life

He was the son of a senator, who later became mayor. [1] After going to school in Lüneburg, from 1699 he studied jurisprudence in Kiel. After some time in Copenhagen, he accompanied a young Danish count to the Rudolph-Antoniana academy in Wolfenbüttel. Between 1712 and 1716 he lived in Holland, before returning to Kiel. [1] In 1721 he was made professor of public and national law. He became friends and collaborators with his colleagues Franz Ernst Vogt and Johann Heinrich Heubel. However, they competed and ended up in a judicial dispute due to Stephan Christoph von Harpprecht. Arpe thus fell into discredit at court and in 1724 he was finally dismissed. First he moved to Hamburg and then from 1729 became a Legationsrat in Brunswick-Wolfenbüttl. After the death of Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Bevern, he was dismissed again in 1731. [1] In 1733 he found a job as a Justizrat (judicial counsel) in the government chancellery in Schwerin. [1]

He catalogued his own writings in his "Feriae aestivales, sive scriptorum suorum historia" (1726). Initially only handwritten, anonymous and available in the library of Kiel University as "Das verwirrte Cimbrien, in der merkwürdigen Lebensbeschreibung Herr Henning Friedrich Grafen von Bassewitz ...", his masterwork was published in 1774 as "Geschichte des Herzoglich Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorfischen Hofes und dessen vornehmster Staatsbedienten". [1] It is notable as the only comprehensive contemporary source on the history of Schleswig-Holstein and its connections to Russia at the time of Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. [4] :10 [5] Due to Arpe's dismissal, he held a great personal enmity against the then-president of the privy council at Gottorf, Henning Friedrich, count von Bassewitz, and thus the work contains several polemics against him. [4] :9

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen (1875), "Arpe, Peter Friedrich", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 608–609
  2. (in German) Karl Heinz Jügelt in Deutsch-dänischer Kulturtransfer Im 18. Jahrhundert von York-Gothart Mix, Carsten Zelle, Wolfenbüttel 2001, S. 287 Google Books
  3. (in German) Johann Anselm Steiger (ed.) 500 Jahre Theologie in Hamburg: Hamburg als Zentrum Christlicher Theologie, Berlin, 2003, S.102f. Google Books
  4. 1 2 (in German) Hubertus Neuschäffer, Henning Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz, Schwerin 1999
  5. (in German) Robert Pries: Das geheime Regierungs-Conseil in Holstein Gottorf 1716-1773, Neumünster, 1955