Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch (also known as Carl Masch, Karl Masch or misspelled as Gottlieb Matthäus Carl Masch; 4 August 1794, Schlagsdorf – 28 June 1878, Demern) was a German theologian, rector, pastor, historian,

numismatist A numismatist is a specialist, researcher, and/or well-informed collector of numismatics, numismatics/coins ("of coins"; from Late Latin , genitive of ). Numismatists can include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholar-researchers who use coi ...

and writer on heraldry. He worked as a schoolteacher and rector in the town of

Schönberg Schönberg () may refer to: Places Austria *Schönberg im Stubaital, a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land, Tyrol *Schönberg am Kamp, a town in the district of Krems-Land, Lower Austria Belgium *Schönberg (Sankt-Vith), a part o ...

. For forty years, up until his death in 1878, he served as a pastor in Demern. He wrote extensively on the

history of Mecklenburg Mecklenburg (; ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Wismar and Güstrow. ...

. In the field of

heraldry Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, Imperial, royal and noble ranks, rank and genealo ...

he published "''Wappen-almanach der souveränen Regenten Europa's''" (1842).

Selected works

* ''Geschichte des Bisthums Ratzeburg'', F. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck (1835) – History of the

Bishopric of Ratzeburg The Diocese of Ratzeburg (, ) is a former diocese of the Catholic Church. It was erected from the Diocese of Oldenburg c. 1050 and was suppressed in 1554. The diocese was originally a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hamburg; in 1072 it became a s ...

. * ''Mecklenburgisches Wappenbuch'', J. G. Tiedemann, Rostock (1838) – Mecklenburg

armorial A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coat of arms, coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing the arms. The oldest extant armorials date to the m ...

. * ''Wappen-almanach der souveränen Regenten Europa's'', Rostock:: Tiedemann (1842) – Crest almanac of the sovereign rulers of Europe. * ''Geschichte und Urkunden der Familie von Kardorff'', Schwerin: Stiller'sche Hofbuchhandlung (1850) – History and records of the Kardorff family. * ''Gesetze, Verordnungen und Verfügungen, welche für das Fürstenthum Ratzeburg erlassen sind'', Schönberg: L. Bicker (1851) – Laws, regulations and decrees that are adopted for the

Principality of Ratzeburg The Principality of Ratzeburg () is a former state, existing from 1648 to 1918. It belonged to the imperially immediate territory of the Duchy of Mecklenburg within the Holy Roman Empire. It was formed from the territory of the former Prince-Bis ...

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Bibliography

*https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Masch,_Gottlieb_Matthias_Karl *https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=100839711 *http://www.landesbibliographie-mv.de/REL?PPN=233274677 *http://www.landesbibliographie-mv.de/REL?PPN=595581811

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Masch, Gottlieb 1794 births 1878 deaths People from Nordwestmecklenburg People from Mecklenburg-Strelitz German Lutheran theologians 19th-century German historians German numismatists 19th-century German Lutheran clergy