Georg Christian Crollius [SEP] place of death
Georg Christian Crollius
Georg Christian Crollius (21 July 1728, Zweibrücken – 23 March 1790, Zweibrücken) was a German historian and librarian.
The son of the gymnasial headmaster Johann Philipp Crollius and Margaretha Gabriela Joannis, Crollius studied in Halle and Göttingen. He succeeded to his father in the management of the Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium in Zweibrücken, the most renowned school in Palatinate-Zweibrücken. Duke Christian IV appointed him also to the committee of the library, the present-day Bibliotheca Bipontina, and to court historiographer
Counts of Sponheim also descended from the Emichones on the male side.
Literature.
- Crollius, Georg Christian: Vorlesung: Von dem ersten geschlecht der alten graven von Veldenz und dessen gemeinschaftlichen abstammung mit den ältern Wildgraven von den graven im Nohgau. Historia et Commentationes. Academiae Electoralis Scientiarvm et Elegantiorvm Litterarvm Theodoro-Palatinae. Mannhemii Typis Academicis 1770 (complete at Google Books)
- Dotzauer, Winfried: "Geschichte des Nahe-Hunsrück-Raumes von den Anfängen bis zur Französischen Revolution", Franz Steiner Verlag,