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Finck

family name

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ21510049 ↗
Source-derived summary

Finck refers to:

Finck family, German banking dynasty

Finck is a surname or part of a longer surname of German origin and the name of several individuals:

Count Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein (1660–1735), Prussian field marshal

Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein (1714–1800), Prussian Prime Minister

Countess Eva Finck von Finckenstein (1903–1994), German politician

Albert Finck, German politician

August Georg Heinrich von Finck (1898–1980), German banker

August von Finck Jr.

Editorial summary

“Finck” enters the record as family name. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Finck, family and name can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1660, 1735, 1714, 1800—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Finck, family and name.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Finck” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Finck, family and name provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q21510049. The first chronological checks are 1660, 1735, 1714 and 1800.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Finck”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Finck primary sources, Finck archive and Finck research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Finck”?
  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Finck” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.