August Burckhardt (historian)

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August Burckhardt-Burckhardt (1868–1935) Dr. phil. Historian, family grave in the Hörnli cemetery
Grave in the Hörnli cemetery

Ludwig August Burckhardt (born May 24, 1868 in Basel ; † May 26, 1935 there ) was a Swiss private scholar and librarian .

Life

Burckhardt grew up in a household in which many people from art, culture and science were guests, such as Jacob Burckhardt , Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff , August Socin , Joseph Joachim , Johannes Brahms or Clara Schumann . He attended the Humanist Gymnasium in Basel , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1887. He then went to the Neuchâtel Academy to study theology . In the second year, he returned to Basel at the university there to study philology and history. Studies at the universities of Heidelberg , Berlin and Jena followed . In Jena he also became a member of the Philological Society, later its chairman. With his cousin and teacher Heinrich Geltser he was in 1892 with the dissertation De Hieroclis Synecdemi codieibus commentano to Dr. phil. PhD . After graduation, he went on various study trips through Europe to prepare for an academic career, which he was denied.

Burckhardt first became librarian and head of the Vaterländische Bibliothek in Basel until it was integrated into the Basel University Library . In addition, he worked as a private scholar , particularly in the area of ​​regional history, genealogy and heraldry . In the meantime he was an assistant at the Basel Historical Museum .

Burckhardt was a member of the Historical and Antiquarian Society in Basel . He was also its president twice. He was also a member of the Heraldic Society and the General History Research Society of Switzerland .

Burckhardt also held many other honorary positions, for example he was a member of the Commission for the Historical Museum, member of the board of the Riehen institution for the deaf and dumb, poor carer and clerk of the St. Alban District Maintenance , quartermaster and president of the commission for the holiday care of poor and needy schoolchildren and president of the commission for Wind pen (Kleinbasler Volkshaus). He was finally president and honorary member of the Basel Choral Society and a member of the Citizens 'Council and the Citizens' Commission, the Guild Board for Keys and the Monument Council of the Basel Public Monument Preservation.

Burckhardt was married to Maria Hedwig Burckhart (1872-1958) since 1895. Her oldest son was August Burckhardt-Brandenberg . The art lover and hiking friend Burckhardt died of a heart attack .

Works (selection)

Burckhardt worked, among other things, on the multi-volume works Die Burgen des Sisgau (1909–1914) and Wappenbuch der Stadt Basel (1917–1930).

  • Town clerk Heinrich Rhyner (1490–1553) . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 2, 1903. ( digitized version )
  • The Eberler is called Grünenzwig. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , 1905. ( digitized version )
  • Investigations into the genealogy of the Counts of Tierstein . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Part 1 , Part 2
  • De Hieroclis Synecdemi codieibus commentano, Leipzig 1892.
  • The attempted insurrection by the brothers Peter and Hans Bischoff in 1482, along with reports on the tumult of 1402, as well as notes on the genealogy of the Bischoff family in the 14th and 15th centuries, contributions to patriotic history, Volume 5, Basel 1901.
  • Basler in foreign service. 95th New Year's Gazette of the Society for the Promotion of the Good and Charitable, Basel 1917.
  • Origin and home of the Burckhardt family in Basel and their social position in the first generations, Basel 1929.

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personal data
SURNAME Burckhardt, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burckhardt, Ludwig August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss private scholar and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1935
Place of death Basel