Alexander Wiltheim

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Memorial plaque on the house where Alexander Wiltheim was born in Rue de l'Eau in Luxembourg City

Alexander Wiltheim (born October 8, 1604 in Luxembourg ; † August 15, 1684 or 1694 ) was a Luxembourg humanist and priest of the Jesuit order . He is considered the "father of Luxembourg archeology".

Works

His main work is the Luciburgensia Romana , an eight-volume work on Roman finds in Luxembourg , Trier and the Eifel .

The work was published posthumously by the Luxembourg doctor Claude Auguste Neÿen in 1842 with the Luxembourg publishing house Kuborn and has been the only complete edition since then. After 1960, the Center Alexandre Wiltheim began a new edition of his works under the direction of the Luxembourg historian Charles Marie Ternes .

With the Luciliburgensia Romana , Wiltheim created practically the first Roman period index of the region. It contains the oldest drawings of the Porta Nigra and the Barbarathermen in Trier .

Fonts

  • August Neyen (Ed.): Wiltheim, Alexander: Luciliburgensia sive Luxemburgum Romanum, hoc est Arduennae veteris situs, populi, loca prisca ... iam inde a Caesarum temporibus Urbis adhaec Luxemburgensis incunabula et incementum investigata atque a fabula vindicata. Kuborn, Luxembourg 1841–1842

literature

  • Charles Marie Ternes: Gens ornata et illustrissima. La famille Wiltheim . In: Aux sources de l'archéologie luxembourgeoise . Volume 2. Luxembourg 1984.
  • Jean Krier, Edmond Thill: Alexandre Wiltheim, 1604–1684. Sa Vie - son oeuvre - son siècle. Bilan d'une exposure. Avec le concours de Raymond Weiller . Luxembourg 1984.
  • Friedrich Lauchert :  Wiltheim, Alexander . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 317 f.
  • Jean Krier: Alexander Wiltheim (1604-1684). A Luxembourg Jesuit paved the way for scientific archeology in the area between the Meuse and the Rhine . In: Monumenta Illustrata: spatial knowledge and antiquarian scholarship edited by Dietrich Boschung, Alfred Schäfer, Paderborn 2019, pp. 197–228.
  • Jean Krier: Alexander Wiltheim and the Roman aqueduct of Vichten . In De Viichter Geschichtsfrënn, 17, Luxembourg 2018, pp. 6–9.

Web links

Commons : Alexandre Wiltheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unlike his father, Wiltheim had no title of nobility: "Par lettres patentes datées de Prague, le 13 novembre 1627, plusieurs membres de la famille Wiltheim sont anoblis par l'empereur Ferdinand II: Jean (père), son frère Guillaume, ses fils Jean et Eustache. " (Krier, Jean et Thill Edmond: Alexandre Wiltheim 1604-1684 - Sa vie - son œvre - son siècle. Luxembourg 1984. p. 35, no. 21.)
  2. ↑ Jean Krier, ALEXANDER Wiltheim (1604-1684) A Jesuit Luxembourg as a pioneer of scientific archeology in the space between Maas and Rhine. Paderborn 2019, p. 198.
  3. ^ Friedrich Lauchert in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  4. ^ Charles Marie Ternes: Aux sources de l'archéologie luxembourgeoise , Luxembourg, 1978, p. 121.
  5. ↑ The exact title is: Luciliburgensia sive Luxemburgum Romanum, hoc est Arduennae veteris situs, populi, loca prisca ... iam inde a Caesarum temporibus Urbis adhaec Luxemburgensis incunabula et incementum investigata atque a fabula vindicata ... eruderata et illustrata a Alexandro Wilthemio.
personal data
SURNAME Wiltheim, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiltheim, Alexandre de; Wiltheim, Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg humanist and Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1604
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1684 or August 15, 1694