Elisabeth Boer

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Elisabeth Karoline Boer (born April 28, 1896 in Bochum ; † January 17, 1991 in Dresden ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

Elisabeth Boer's grave in the Tolkewitz urn grove

Boer was born in Bochum in 1896. Her older sister is the well-known classical philologist Emilie Boer (1894–1980). Boer attended the Bochum girls' school and from 1911 to 1914 the high school in Hanover . She came to Dresden with her parents in 1914, and in 1917 she graduated from the municipal girls' high school in Dresden Neustadt. In the same year she began studying history with special emphasis on historical auxiliary sciences and archival sciences as well as German and Latin in Heidelberg , Marburg and Munich . In 1923 she returned to Dresden and in 1924 defended her dissertation entitled Reform efforts in the Waldecker Kloster Volkhardinghausen .

Boer initially worked as a volunteer in the Saxon Main State Archives and from 1925 as an unskilled worker in the Dresden Council Archives. This was followed by articles about the town clerk Michael Weisse (1931), about Dresden emigrants in the years 1852 to 1857 (1933), the establishment of the Kunstwarts (1936) and the Dresden suburban archive (1953). In addition, Boer was involved in various exhibitions.

Through their efforts to protect the archive holdings during the bombing of Dresden , more than three quarters of the holdings were preserved. Immediately after the death of long-time archive and library director Georg Hermann Müller-Benedict (1878–1945) in February 1945, Boer took over the deputy management of the Dresden City Archives , of which she was director from 1951 to 1956.

After retiring in 1956, she worked on a regesta on Dresden's architectural history from the middle of the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century. In 1959 she became a member of the historical commission of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and in 1963 published the edition of Dresden's oldest city book 1404–1436. Until 1986 she devoted herself to the indexing of the documents of the Margraves of Meißen and Landgraves of Thuringia 1196–1234 by Otto Posse, edited in the 3rd volume of the Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae, through place registers, person registers and glossary.

Boer died in Dresden in 1991 and was buried in the Tolkewitz urn grove . Her estate is now in the main state archive in Dresden.

Honor

In recognition of her life's work, she was awarded the Leibniz Medal in 1986 as the highest award from the Academy of Sciences of the GDR.

Elisabeth-Boer-Strasse has been named after her since 2000. The Dresden City Archives are located on the street that was laid out in 1999 (house number 1).

Works (selection)

Elisabeth Boer's bibliography comprises a total of 22 publications, mainly on research on the history of Dresden and the history of Saxony.

literature

  • Manfred Kobuch : Obituary Elisabeth Boer . In: Der Archivar 44 (1991), Sp. 677-679
  • Thomas Kübler: I'm lucky to be able to work here . In: Neustadt 03/2001
  • Heike Richter: Boer, Elisabeth Karoline . In: Jens Börner et al .: 100 years of the crematorium and urn grove Dresden-Tolkewitz . Sax Verlag, Beucha / Markkleeberg 2011, p. 176.
  • Carola Schauer: Elisabeth Boer: Archivist between the worlds . In: Dresdner Hefte 85 (2006), pp. 23–30

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Engelbert Plassmann , Ludger Syré (ed.): Association of German Librarians 1900-2000: Festschrift, Wiesbaden 200, p. 308.
  2. ↑ Elisabeth Boer's personal estate at www.archiv.sachsen.de
  3. ^ According to the DNB, the chronicle was published in 1932 and not - as stated in the Dresden City Wiki - in 1923.
personal data
SURNAME Boer, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boer, Elisabeth Karoline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1991
Place of death Dresden