Bartholomäus Joseph Blasius Alfter

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Bartholomäus Joseph Blasius Alfter (* 1728 or 1729; † November 26, 1808 ) was a German historian and Catholic theologian .

Life

Bartholomäus Joseph Blasius Alfter attended the Jesuit grammar school. He began early on with historical research and studies. He collected many documents relating to the history of the city of Cologne and the Cologne diocese. His position as apostolic protonotary made his research and studies easier: he visited diplomats and, appointed to set up private and public archives, was given permission to copy unknown and important documents.

This enabled him to correct many wrong views. He collected many of the most valuable contributions for Cologne diplomacy , genealogy , heraldry and topography . When, under Elector Maximilian Franz of Austria, many rare manuscripts and books were given to the library of the new Bonn University , Alfter agreed to leave many manuscripts and documents, some of them originals, to the university.

This collection - it contained 62 volumes - fled when the elector left, stood for several years in the Wedinghausen monastery near Arnsberg and finally came to the court library in Darmstadt .

After his death, some of the important collections he left behind were auctioned off in Cologne by the antiquarian Hansen. This included a Cologne chronicle with hand drawings now in the city archives, as well as the chronicle of the Cologne Carthäuserkloster , a manuscript which contained many important notes about Cologne scholars and painters from old Cologne.

The Cologne school administration acquired most of the manuscripts, certificates, stamps of seals and maps for the price of 3600 francs. With the exception of the Genealogica, which was handed over to the Administrative Council of the Study Foundations, this collection has been in the Jesuit library in Cologne since 1842.

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SURNAME Alfter, Bartholomäus Joseph Blasius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1728 or 1729
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1808