Christian Quix

The son of a typical tenant farming family from the Dutch province of Limburg, after his abitur he pursued a theological career.

However, the abolition of the monasteries in the French department of Roer cut his employment prospects and he left the order to work as a private tutor.

From 1806 until early retirement due to deafness in 1823 he was appointed to what is now the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen, teaching ancient languages, history and natural history and developing his own knowledge of these topics.

After 1823 he devoted himself to research on local history, gathering documents and archival materials from various monasteries and offices, evaluating them and writing works on them.

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