Carl Roth (librarian)
Carl Roth (born June 17, 1880 in Lausanne , † May 21, 1940 in Basel ) was a Swiss historian , librarian and curator .
Life
The Roth family came from the canton of Solothurn and emigrated from there to the Markgräflerland in Baden , where they can be found in the Wiesental and Kandertal since 1586 . It was not until Carl Roth's father became naturalized in Basel in 1880. Carl Roth attended the Humanist Gymnasium in Basel and passed his Matura examination there in 1899 , in order to then begin studying history, philosophy and German philology at the University of Basel . He spent the winter semester of 1901/02 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Rudolf Thommen was one of his teachers in Basel . With him and Adolf Baumgartner he did his doctorate on the subject of the dissolution of the Tierstein rule . From 1909 Roth worked in the manuscript cabinet of the University Library in Basel and in 1913 he took over its management.
He described the contents of the Basel church archive and the falconry collection and published the files relating to the transfer of the reliquary from the Basel cathedral monastery to the Mariastein monastery .
In his publications he dealt with Basilius Amerbach and Bonifacius Amerbach as well as Erasmus von Rotterdam . Roth also worked on the family tables of the extinct scholarly families of Basel, which he published in volumes 15-17 and 19 of the Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde . In Basel Yearbook his studies appeared on major Basler buildings such as the Markgräflerhof .
He made a number of contributions to the Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Roth worked on the board of the Basel Historical and Antiquarian Society , which he headed from 1919 to 1922.
He was a state delegate at the Basel Public Monument Preservation and participated in the preparatory work for a Basel Monument Protection Act. Roth was a driving force in the restoration of the Spalentor between 1930 and 1934 and supervised the work as a delegate of the Federal Commission for Historical Art Monuments . From 1931 to 1935 he also worked on other projects for this commission.
In addition, he was Vice President of the Swiss Castle Association . In this area of interest, he published the work Die Burgen und Schlösser der Cantons Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft in two volumes in 1932/33, which builds on the standard work by Walther Merz on the castles in Sisgau.
Fonts (selection)
literature
- Karl Schwarber: Dr. Carl Roth: 1880-1940. In: Journal for Swiss History = Revue d'histoire suisse , Volume 20 (1940), Issue 3/4, pp. 485–488 pdf
- Paul Roth : Words of Memory to Librarian Dr. Carl Roth 1880-1940. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Volume 39 (1940), pp. 259–263 pdf
- Bibliography: Writings of Dr. Carl Roth. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Volume 39 (1940), pp. 263–264 pdf
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Roth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Catalog of works on opac.regesta-imperii.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Schwarber p. 485
- ↑ see Roth p. 260
- ↑ The resolution of tiersteinischen rule , Basel 1906 in the Internet Archive
- ↑ Homepage of the Basel Monument Preservation; accessed on May 4, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roth, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roth, Karl; Roth, Carl Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss historian, librarian and curator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausanne |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1940 |
| Place of death | Basel |