Paul Pfotenhauer

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Paul Friedrich Pfotenhauer (born July 30, 1842 in Glauchau , † August 8, 1897 in Bad Ilmenau ) was a German archivist and historian . Pfotenhauer became known as the author of numerous works on the history of the Silesian region .

Life

Paul Pfotenhauer was born as the son of Wilhelm Pfotenhauer (1812–1877). His father was a lawyer and court director and later became Dresden's first mayor and member of the Saxon state parliament . He married Louise Antonie (1815-1888) in Johanngeorgenstadt in 1840 , née Funkhänel, Paul's mother. He was one of four children, two sons and two daughters, of the couple, of whom one son and one daughter died shortly after birth.

Pfotenhauer first attended a private school and from Easter 1856 went to the Dresden Gymnasium zum Heiligen Kreuz . As a subpriman, he had to leave school in 1861 due to permanent illness, but continued to receive private tuition. In September 1862 he was in the Nikolai School Leipzig the baccalaureate exam . He began studying law and camera science at the University of Leipzig and after five semesters moved to the universities in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he also studied three semesters of history . In Heidelberg he attended lectures by Ludwig Häusser and Wilhelm Wattenbach and in Berlin seminars by Leopold von Ranke . From Ranke he received suggestions for his dissertation on the oath taken by Emperor Otto I towards Pope John XII. had done. In the summer of 1866 doctorate Pfotenhauer at the Faculty of Philosophy of Leipzig University for Dr. phil.

For further studies he went to the Saxon State Archives in Dresden . There Pfotenhauer was involved, among other things, as a collaborator in the publication of the Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae . He conducted research in numerous smaller Saxon city archives as well as in the archives of the relevant church and judicial authorities. He rearranged the extensive city ​​archive of Chemnitz and put a catalog of all the manuscripts contained in the Saxonica in the royal library in Dresden . Since he was denied a position in the Saxon State Archives Service, he applied to the Prussian archive administration in the summer of 1875.

Pfotenhauer was hired for a probationary period at the State Archives in Schleswig and was appointed an unskilled worker there in March 1876. In September of the same year he was transferred to the Wroclaw State Archives where he worked until the end of his life. In March 1877 he became archive assistant, a year later archive secretary and in 1882 archivist first class. At Christmas 1892 Pfotenhauer was given the title of Royal Prussian Archives Council .

During his 20 years at the Wrocław State Archives, he researched almost exclusively the history of Silesia, especially the history of the nobility, coat of arms and seals, but also the history of Silesian education and the university. Pfotenhauer often processed genealogical inquiries to his archive himself. He published the results of his studies mostly in the journal of the Verein für Geschichte (und Alterthum) Schlesiens , the organ of the Society for the History and Antiquity of Silesia , of which he himself was a long-time member. On behalf of the association he was the editor of the independent publications The Silesian Seal from 1250-1300 resp. 1327 , which was published in 1879, and the documents of the Kamenz monastery , which appeared as volume 10 of the Codex diplomaticus Silesiae in 1881. Pfotenhauer published further work in the archival journal and in the messages of the Freiberger Altertumsverein. For the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie he wrote articles on Nikolaus Poppel , Franz Ferdinand von Troilo and Peter von Dresden .

In the fall of 1896 he traveled to Italy for study and recreation, but hardly returned home after suffering a minor stroke . He died on the morning of August 8, 1897, at the age of 55, in the spa town of Ilmenau in Thuringia of another stroke. He was buried in clay pits on August 13, 1897, in the Maria Magdalenen cemetery in Breslau with great sympathy .

Publications (selection)

author

  • Erbische Strasse and Erbisches Tor. Freiberg 1867.
  • The Lords of the Cross with the Red Star in Silesia. Wroclaw 1878.
  • Silesians in the service of the Teutonic Order in 1410. Breslau 1880.
  • The fifty knights of 1294.Wroclaw 1882.
  • Schlesier as rectors of the University of Leipzig in the first century of its existence. Wroclaw 1883.
  • The knighthood of Teschen in the 16th century. Wroclaw 1884.
  • The porters of Neumarkt and their records. Wroclaw 1886.
  • About Freiberg's doctors and healing artists in the oldest times. Freiberg 1886.
  • The nobility of the Principality of Oels in the 16th century. Wroclaw 1887.
  • On the history of the auxiliary bishops of the diocese of Breslau. Wroclaw 1889.
  • Silesians as imperial count palatine and Silesian relations with foreign count palatine. Wroclaw 1892.
  • Schlesier at the University of Bologna. Wroclaw 1895.
  • Silesians at the University of Erfurt in the Middle Ages. Wroclaw 1896.

editor

  • The Silesian seals from 1250 to 1300 and 1327 respectively . Breslau 1879.
  • Documents from the Kamenz monastery. Wroclaw 1881.

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Pawtusk, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfotenhauer, Paul Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Glauchau
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1897
Place of death Bad Ilmenau