An important resource for information on the ancestry of many Pomeranian individuals is Vitae Pomeranorum or Lives of Pomerania, compiled by Augustin von Balthasar. This collection of over 160 volumes of material, held at the Universitätsbibliothek Greifwald (Greifswald University Library), has never been made available in reprint format but is available in digital format through Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Digitalebibliothek here:
A printed name index was prepared by Dr. Edmund Lange, entitled “Die Greifswalder Sammlung Vitae Pomeranorum,” which appeared in Baltische Studien in 1898 and supplemented in 1905, available here:
For additional information on this important resource, see:
Below are surnames included in this collection that are or may be directly related to the Bluth family:
- Andreae
- Barkow
- Blut (also Bluht, von Plotho)
- Budde
- Buensow
- Froboese (Vrobose)
- Gottschalk
- Groenenberg (also Gronenberg, Grünenberg)
- Hagemeister
- Hannemann
- Kanngießer (Kannengeter)
- Klinckow
- von Klinckowstroem
- von der Lipe
- von der Lippe
- von Tessin
- von Voelschow
- Band 38
- von Wolffersdorff
- von Zastrow
Last update: 4 Aug 2025