Bruno Krusch

Bruno Krusch (born July 8, 1857 in Görlitz , † June 29, 1940 in Hanover ) was a German historian and archivist .

Bruno Krusch was the son of a master bricklayer and architect. His younger brother was the geologist and head of the Prussian Geological State Institute Paul Krusch . In 1876 Krusch passed his Abitur and began studying at the University of Leipzig , where Wilhelm Arndt became his teacher. In 1879 he received his doctorate in Leipzig with the work The 84-year-old Easter cycle and its sources ; in the same year he worked as an assistant under Georg Waitz at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH). In 1884 he published the historical work of Gregory of Tours together with Arndt , in 1888 the so-called Fredegar Chronicle and in 1896 the first volume of the stories of suffering and life descriptions of the saints from Merovingian times. For the Monumenta, where he became a member of the central management in 1903, he researched until his death. From 1882 on, Krusch worked as an archivist at various Prussian state archives: Marburg (1887), Hanover (1890), Breslau (1900), Osnabrück (1907) and in 1910 as director of the Hanover State Archives . In 1923 he retired.

His main research interests were the early medieval chronology , the edition of Merovingian historiography and hagiography as well as the edition of early Franconian legal sources. Krusch became a member of the Göttingen Society of Sciences in 1911 and of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1925 . Krusch, whose 150th birthday was in 2007, never received a detailed appreciation of his scientific work.

Fonts (selection)

• Studies in Franconian diplomacy. The title of the Frankish kings. Berlin 1937.
• The Lex Salica is the oldest German code of law. Berlin 1934.
• The Lex Bajuvariorum. Text history, manuscript criticism and genesis. Berlin 1924.
• History of the State Archives in Wroclaw. Leipzig 1908.
• Studies on Christian-Medieval Chronology. The 84-year-old Easter cycle and its sources. Leipzig 1880.

literature

• Adriaan Breukelaar :  Bruno Krusch. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 726-728.
• Ernst Heymann : Bruno Krusch † In: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages 4 (1941), pp. 504-518 ( digitized version ).
• Walther Kienast : Bruno Krusch. In: Historische Zeitschrift 163 (1941), p. 450.
• Rudolf Schieffer :  Krusch, Bruno. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 146 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Georg Schnath : Obituary for Bruno Krusch. In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 17 (1940), pp. 224–225.
• Thomas Vogtherr : The Osnabrück years of archivist and historian Bruno Krusch. In: Sabine Graf , Regina Rößner and Gerd Steinwascher (eds.): Archives and regional history. Festschrift for Christine van den Heuvel (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Vol. 300). Wallstein, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3374-1 , pp. 147-160.
• Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich et al. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , p. 344.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bruno Krusch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Bruno Krusch  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by Bruno Krusch in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) Munich