Adolf Warschauer
Adolf Warschauer (born October 13, 1855 in Kempen , Posen Province , † December 25, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German historian.
In 1903 he became a professor at the Academy Poznan was there and in Gdansk worked in the archive service (the first Jew director of the Prussian State Archives: 1912 in Danzig) and led in the First World War the archives at the General Warsaw .
Life
Warschauer was born as the son of the teacher and cantor Bernhard Warschauer. He enjoyed a humanistic education at the Elisabeth High School in Wroclaw, studied archival science, history and philosophy at the Wroclaw University and received his doctorate in 1881 with the thesis "Sources for the history of the Florentine Council of 1439".
Warschauer was the only non-baptized Jew who managed a career in the service of the Prussian State Archives. From 1882 he spent most of his life as a secret archivist at the Royal State Archives in Poznan, where he also worked as co-founder and secretary of the Historical Society for the Province of Poznan. He was also a permanent contributor to the Periodicals Historical Monthly for the Province of Poznan and the Journal of the Historical Society for the Province of Poznan.
Warschauer, who was also a student of the renowned Eastern European historian Josef Caro , was considered a connoisseur of Polish history and the history of Poznan in particular. He also taught regional history at the Poznan Academy .
In 1912 he was finally appointed archive director of the Danzig State Archives and thus became the first Jew to be director of a German state archive. Warschauer came to Berlin around 1918, where he continued to be a member of the Board of Trustees as a founding member of the General Archives of German Jews and played a key role in setting up the general archive. In 1929 Ismar Elbogen suggested him as editor of the revitalized magazine for the history of the Jews in Germany, but he had to decline this job offer due to his poor health.
In addition to essays and writings on the history of the Poznan region, he wrote his memoir "German Cultural Work in the Ostmark", which best attests to his academic merits.
Adolf Warschauer was married to Bertha, nee Braun, and the couple had a daughter named Anna. He found his final resting place in the Jewish cemetery in Prenzlauer Berg .
Fonts (selection)
- History of the Province of Posen in Polish times (= historical monthly sheets for the Province of Posen. Vol. 15, attachment , ZDB -ID 517922-1 ). Historical Society for the Province of Poznan, Poznan 1914.
- History of the city of Gniezno (= Journal of the Historical Society for the Province of Posen. Vol. 30, ZDB -ID 517924-5 ). Historical Society for the Province of Poznan, Poznan 1918, ( online ).
- The story of the dispute over the nationality of Copernicus. In: Communications from the Poznan Historical Society. H. 1, 1925, ZDB -ID 557771-8 , pp. 1-26.
- German cultural work in the Ostmark. Memories from 4 decades. Hobbing, Berlin 1926.
literature
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925).
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Warschauer in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Warsaw, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kempen , Poznan Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1930 |
| Place of death | Berlin |