Helfrich Bernhard Hundeshagen

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Helfrich Bernhard Hundeshagen (born September 18, 1784 in Hanau ; † October 9, 1858 in Endenich ) was a German German studies scholar , librarian, and art and architecture historian.

origin

His parents were the high school professor , syndic in Hanau, secret government and court judge Johann Balthasar Hundeshagen (1734-1800) and his wife Dorothea Charlotte Stein , a sister of the professor of medicine Georg Wilhelm Stein . His older brother was the forest scientist Johann Christian Hundeshagen .

Life

Hundeshagen studied law with Jacob Grimm in Marburg under Friedrich Carl von Savigny from 1802 to 1803 . He continued his studies from 1804 to 1806 in Göttingen . After graduating, he worked at the court in Hanau. In addition, he dealt with the history of art, especially with the architecture of antiquity and the Middle Ages. In Hanau he campaigned in vain for the preservation of the city gates of the city ​​fortifications and wrote a work on the 12th century Pfalz Gelnhausen . He was one of the first to take an art-historical interest in Romanesque architecture, which at that time was still known as Neo-Byzantine.

In 1808 he sent a manuscript on the Parthenon to Goethe's publisher Heinrich Meyer , perhaps in the hope of getting Goethe's approval for his work. In 1813 he was appointed to the public library in Wiesbaden as a librarian , where he oversaw the liquidation of the monastery libraries. Here he succeeded in acquiring the Oculus Memoriae again and making it accessible to scientific research. During his activity in Wiesbaden he came into contact with Goethe and Carl Friedrich Zelter . Goethe visited Wiesbaden for a cure in 1814/15. Hundeshagen also worked there as an archaeologist . He accompanied the uncovering of the thermal baths at the Kochbrunnen near the white lion and reported to Goethe, who showed great interest in it, in a letter in January 1816. In Wiesbaden he also met the Prussian councilor Wilhelm Dorow , who had been there for a cure since late autumn 1817 and was in carried out archaeological investigations in the Wiesbaden area in the following weeks. Hundeshagen drew several finds for Dorow's publication, which appeared in 1819 with the title: Sacrifice Site and Burial Mound of the Teutons and Romans on the Rhine . Hundeshagen was also involved in other important excavations of Dorow and their evaluation in the next few years, for example in the Niederbieber fort near Neuwied.

Hundeshagenscher Codex: Etzel invites the Burgundy kings to be guests.

Nowadays he is primarily known for the Hundeshagen Codex . In 1816 he acquired this illustrated manuscript of the Nibelungenlied from the second half of the 15th century, which he then painstakingly restored over many years. Today it is in the Berlin State Library .

He spent the last ten years of his life in the psychiatric institution in Bonn-Endenich.

Fonts

  • The old Gothic chapel in Frankenberg ground plan, elevation and cross section. Along with thoughts on the so-called Gothic church architecture . Frankfurt am Main 1808.
  • Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa Palace in Gelnhausen Castle. A certificate from the nobility of Hohenstaufen and the art education of their time . Mainz 1819. ( Proof sheet 1810, digitized from Google Books , edition from 1819 )

literature

  • Adalbert Elschenbroich:  Hundeshagen, Helfrich Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 62 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Eckhard Meise : Bernhard Hundeshagen - no monument protection in Hanau in the early 19th century. In: New magazine for Hanau history . 2006, pp. 3-61.
  • Michael Müller: "Today you can see potatoes growing where cannons used to be planted." Changes in the Hanau townscape during the Napoleonic era. In: Erhard Bus , Markus Häfner, Martin Hoppe (Red.): Hanau in the Napoleonic era. Published by the Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 eV in memory of the battle near Hanau on October 30th and 31st, 1813. (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. 47). Hanau 2014, ISBN 978-3-935395-21-3 , pp. 187-201, especially pp. 192-194.
  • Julius Noll: Helfrich Bernhard Hundeshagen and his position on romanticism . Frankfurt am Main 1891.
  • Karl Siebert: Hanauer biographies from three centuries. (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. NF 3/4). Hanauer Geschichtsverein , Hanau 1919, pp. 89–91.
  • Harald Tausch: The Invisible Labyrinth. On the park design and architecture in Goethe's "Elective Affinities". In: Helmut Hühn (Ed.): Goethe's Wahlverwandationen. Work and research. Berlin / New York 2010, pp. 89–136. (In it the chapter from p. 109 on the subject of Hundeshagen as a model for the figure of the architect in Goethe's novel Elective Affinities and on Hundeshagen's early studies of Romanesque architecture)
  • Wolfgang Wagner: Helfrich Bernhard Hundeshagen 1784–1858. Life and work of a romantic. In: Journal of the Hessian Association for History and Regional Studies. 93, 1988, pp. 111-128.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eckhard Meise: Bernhard Hundeshagen - no monument protection in Hanau in the early 19th century. In: New magazine for Hanau history. 2006, pp. 3-61.
  2. ↑ Winfried Schüler: To preserve, experience, understand. 200 years association for Nassau antiquity and historical research . Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815190-1-3 , p. 49 .
  3. ^ Walter Czysz : Wiesbaden in Roman times. Theiss, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1088-8 , pp. 86-87.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Dorow: Place of sacrifice and burial mound of the Teutons and Romans on the Rhine. 1st edition. 1819. (digitized version)

Web links

Commons : Helfrich Bernhard Hundeshagen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Hundeshagenscher Codex  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Hundeshagen, Helfrich Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hundeshagen, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1858
Place of death Endeich