A. E. Glasewald

Arthur Ernst Glasewald (1861–1926) was a book seller and later stamp dealer in Gössnitz near Leipzig who was a pioneer in the study of German private posts. He founded the Internationale Verein für Localmarkenkunde and was editor and publisher of the journal Neueste Privatpost-Nachrichten. He was joint author and publisher of the Handbuch der deutschen Privatpostmarken.

In 1928, a trust fund was established in memory of Glasewald to award a medal for meritorious research into the history of the German private posts.

Some of the past winners of the medal have been:

• Heinrich Düsterbehn (1950)
• Georg Glasewald (1951)
• Paul Rampacher (1955)
• L.N. & M. Williams (1961)
• Hans Meier zu Eissen (1982)
• Horst Müller (1994)
• Ralph Phillips (2016)

• Handbuch der deutschen Privatpostmarken. (Published and edited)
• Die Postwerthzeichen von Griechenland: Nach den neuesten Forschungen. 1896.