Christa Kirsten

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Christa Kirsten (born October 7, 1928 in Breslau ) is a German archivist who earned lasting merit as director of the Central Archive of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

Life

Christa Kirsten was born in Silesia and had to leave her home with her parents in 1945. Despite her youth, she initially worked as a new teacher in the Soviet occupation zone and thus actively participated in the development of a new school system. In 1946 she joined the SED . In 1948 she began studying history and German at the University of Leipzig . In 1953 she continued her studies at the Institute for Archival Studies, which she graduated in 1957.

In 1954 she did her doctorate under Hellmut Kretzschmar and Heinrich Sproemberg .

In 1957 she got a job as a scientific archivist at the archive of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . She later became head of labor and in 1961 director of this facility. In the same year she founded the working group of archivists of scientific institutions of the GDR, of which she became chairman.

In 1965 Christa Kirsten initiated the conference of representatives of the academy archives of socialist countries, which took place for the first time in Warsaw .

Fonts (selection)

  • Overview of the holdings of the archive of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , Berlin 1960 DNB 574323767
  • The Academy of Sciences of the GDR and its archive . In: Archivmitteilungen 25 (1975), 3, pp. 87-91.
  • (Ed.) U. a .: Inaugural speeches, replies to the admission of physicists to the Berlin Academy, commemorative speeches 1870–1929 (= physicists on physicists, volume 2), Akademischer Verlag, Berlin 1979.
  • Classical Studies at the Berlin Academy. Nominations for the admission of members from FA Wolf to G. Rodenwaldt (= Studies on the History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Volume 5). Academy, Berlin 1985. DNB 881163163
  • Correspondence between Hermann von Helmholtz and Emil du Bois-Reymond , 1846 - 1894. Documents of a friendship , edited by a collective of editors under the direction of Christa Kirsten, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag 1986.

Awards

literature

  • Klaus Mlynek : Biographical Notes on Honored Archivists. Dr. Christa Kirsten. Director of the Central Archive of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In: Archive Messages , 19, 1969, No. 4, p. 164.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Dr. Christa Kirsten. Director of the Central Archive of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In: Archive Messages , 19, 1969, No. 4, p. 164.
personal data
SURNAME Kirsten, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw