Edgar Krausen

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Edgar Krausen (born December 29, 1912 in Munich ; † January 15, 1988 there ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

Krausen was born the son of a Munich doctor. He studied German , history and newspaper studies . In 1937 Krausen was promoted to archive trainee and in 1940 to archive assessor . He had been a participant in World War II since 1939 and was released from American captivity in 1945.

In the same year Krausen got a job as an archive assessor at the State Archives in Neuburg an der Donau . In 1948 he became State Archives Councilor at the Secret State Archives in Munich. Since 1955 he was a member of the German editorial team of Analecta Cisterciensia . From 1957 he taught as a lecturer at the Bavarian Archive School . As early as 1951, Krausen worked at the Bavarian Main State Archives in Munich and in the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, from 1965 as senior government archivist and from 1970 as state archives director. In 1967 he took over the second chairmanship of the Association for Christian Art. V. in Munich. A year later he became a member of the editorial board of the magazine Citeaux published by the Trappists .

Edgar Krausen died on January 15, 1988, at the age of 75, in Munich, the city of his birth. He was buried in the Munich forest cemetery. Krausen was a member of the Commission d'Histoire de l'Ordre de Citeaux, the Bavarian Benedictine Academy and editor of the communications for archive maintenance in Bavaria . He was the author and editor of numerous specialist publications and co-author of the New German Biography . His main research interests were piety research, Munich city history and the history of monasteries in Bavaria, especially the history of the Cistercian order .

His written estate , consisting of documents from his archival-scientific work, manuscripts and correspondence, with a term from 1940 to 1988, is in the Bavarian Main State Archives in Munich.

Publications (selection)

author

  • The economic history of the former Raitenhaslach Cistercian Abbey up to the end of the Middle Ages. Verlag der Südostbayerischen Heimatstudien, Hirschenhausen 1937.
  • The monasteries of the Cistercian order in Bavaria. Verlag Bayerischer Heimatforschung, Munich-Pasing 1953.
  • The parish church in Raitenhaslach, Salzach. Former Cistercian abbey church. Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1956.
  • The churches of Pöttmes (Aichach district). Contributions to their building and art history from the church accounts from 1700-1819. Home nurse of the district of Upper Bavaria, Schongau 1956 (as editor).
  • The documents of the Raitenhaslach monastery 1034-1350. Beck, Munich 1959 (main volume, as editor).
  • The documents of the Raitenhaslach monastery 1034-1350. Beck, Munich 1960 (register tape, as editor).
  • Buchbach Parish Church. Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, Mühldorf district, Upper Bavaria. Publishing house Sankt Peter, Salzburg 1972.
  • The Archdiocese of Salzburg. The Cistercian Abbey of Raitenhaslach. (= The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Salzburg. Volume 1). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1977, ISBN 978-3-11-006826-9 . ( online on res doctae )

editor

  • Old maps and plans from Bavaria. Exhibition in the Bavarian Main State Archives on the occasion of the 9th workshop of the German Society for Cartography (September 17-19, 1959). Exhibition catalog, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Munich 1959.
  • The hand-drawn maps in the Bavarian Main State Archives and in the State Archives in Amberg and Neuburg ad Donau until 1650. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1973, ISBN 978-3-7686-9006-5 .

literature

  • Heidrun Alzheimer : Folklore in Bavaria. A biobibliographical lexicon of the forerunners, sponsors and former experts. Bavarian Leaves for Folklore / Bavarian National Museum, Würzburg / Munich 1991, p. 146.
  • Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich. Biographies from eight centuries. Alitera, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8424-9560-9 , p. 339.
  • Wilhelm Gessel: Bibliography Edgar Krausen (= contributions to the old Bavarian church history. Volume 32). Association for Diocesan History of Munich and Freising 1979, pp. 181–200.

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personal data
SURNAME Krausen, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1988
Place of death Munich