The Prussica-Sammlung Trunz (the formal title can be informally translated as the "Prussianica Collection
elonging to or assembled byTrunz") is a collection of over 40,000 books about former German territories in Eastern and Central Europe, mainly
Prussia
Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a Germans, German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussia (region), Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, ...
. It was founded by Dr. August Trunz (1875-1963) from
Allenstein,
East Prussia
East Prussia was a Provinces of Prussia, province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's ...
.
Among others, the collection features chronicles by
Kaspar Schuetz (1592),
Caspar Henneberg (1595),
Christoph Hartknoch (1684),
Lucas David, and the
Livonia
Livonia, known in earlier records as Livland, is a historical region on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the Livonians, who lived on the shores of present-day Latvia.
By the end of the 13th century, the name was extende ...
n chronicles of
Balthasar Russow (1578).
In 1978, the collection was purchased by the library of the
University of Münster.
External links
Prussica-Sammlung Trunz
Archives in Germany
Culture of Prussia
Culture in Münster
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