Dear family members and relatives,
After years of research, a work about our ancestor Rudolf Graf v. Stillfried that is particularly important for our family will be published at the beginning of 2024 . It will appear in five volumes. It can already be ordered from the publisher or any bookstore and also online. So you might put a voucher for it on the Christmas table. Each volume is illustrated, has between 726 and 820 pages and costs around 80 euros, the entire work costs 399.90 euros. It contains the 32 diaries of this historically particularly important family member, which were deciphered, transcribed, researched and historically evaluated and commented on by Prof. Bahlcke and his colleagues of the Stuttgart University over many years of painstaking work. Our "cousins" Benedikt and Nikolaus Count Praschma, both of whom unfortunately meanwhile have passed away, provided the majority of the diaries from their inheritance. Some diaries had already been in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage. In future, all the 32 original diaries will be stored there in connection with the family archive of the Counts and Barons v. Stillfried.
The diaries of the Prussian court and state official Rudolf Graf von Stillfried-Alcántara 1827 to 1882.
A historical-critical edition in 5 volumes. Book (hardcover) €399.90 incl. VAT and shipping
Published by Joachim Bahlcke and Roland Gehrke
Publications from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Archives
For further information on the title, see the appendix and https://www.duncker-humblot.de/9783428190140
"Rudolf Graf von Stillfried-Alcántara, born in Hirschberg in 1804 and deceased in 1882 on his Silbitz manor in Lower Silesia, came from an old Bohemian-Silesian noble family. The change of throne in Prussia in 1840 opened up a brilliant career for him at the Berlin court. King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, who had a strong sense of traditional monarchical-dynastic ceremonial, appointed his confidant first as courtly master of ceremonies in 1853, then as chief master of ceremonies and also as head of the newly created herald office, which was responsible for all kinds of aristocratic affairs (1855), and in addition as director of the Royal House Archives (1856). In these functions, the Catholic Stillfried was a central figure for dynastic historiography, the maintenance of tradition and the politics of remembrance for decades, also under the successor King Wilhelm I. The work of this Berlin court and state official is documented not least in his diaries, which he kept with extraordinary meticulousness and continuity until a few weeks before his death. With daily, sometimes very intimate observations, reflections and thoughts Stillfried's diaries provide a wide range of insights into the courtly and aristocratic world of the 19th century. They represent a source of exceptional value for cultural-historical research."
This makes them of very special value also for the family and its members.
With kind regards from your Norbert
The diaries of the Prussian court and state official
Rudolf von Stillfried-Alcántara 1827 to 1882
A historical-critical edition. 5 part volumes
Publications from the Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage
Sources, Volume 75 / I-V
I: frontispiece, numerous illustrations, 752 pages
II: illustrations, 818 pages;
III: illus., 814 pages, IV: illus., 780 pages;
V: illus., 726 pages, 2023
ISBN 978-3-428-19014-0, hardcover, € 399,90*
Pre-orders are possible here www.duncker-humblot.de/9783428190140