Ernst Fidicin

Ernst Fidicin

Ernst Fidicin (born April 27, 1802 in Potsdam , † December 19, 1883 in Berlin ) was the director of the Berlin City Archives and one of the most important representatives of Berlin-Brandenburg historical research in the 19th century.

Career

Ernst Fidicin attended the community school and grammar school in Potsdam. After his military service, he was an apprentice at the Potsdam City Court from 1822 . In 1828 he found a position as a clerk at the Berlin Superior Court .

In 1848, Fidicin became the first full-time archivist in Berlin and also took on the duties of a registrar for the city council. Under his leadership, the archive became an important institution for city administration and regional historical research.

"Berlin - historical and topographical"

Working as a historian

Ernst Fidicin's efforts to research the history of Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg were reflected in several important historical and literary works. During his research in 1836 in the Bremen City Library , he found the Berlin City Book of 1397, believed to have been lost since 1728 ; it appeared a year later as the first part of the historical-diplomatic contributions to the history of the city of Berlin published by Fidicin. He published the land book of Emperor Charles IV from 1375 and continued the history of the settlement in his four-volume work The Territories of the Mark Brandenburg .

In 1865 Fidicin was a founding member of the Society for the History of Berlin and a member of the board, later even honorary chairman. In doing so, he took on the role of the association's librarian and was primarily responsible for the publications of the city's medieval documents published by the association.

Honors

tomb

• 1872: On the occasion of his 50th anniversary as the Berlin city archivist, the Association for the History of Berlin had a "Golden Medal" minted for him, which Kaiser Wilhelm I personally presented to him.
• 1882: First award of the “Fidicin Medal for the Promotion of the Purposes of the Society” by the Society for the History of Berlin.
• April 24, 1890: Name of Fidicinstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
• Honorary grave until 2014 on the old Luisenstädtischer Friedhof am Südstern in Berlin-Kreuzberg in field 2, G4.

Works (selection)

• Historical and diplomatic contributions to the history of the city of Berlin. 5 volumes, AW Hahn, Berlin 1837–1842, page 1 ff. To 523 or ( online in the Google book search). Reprint: Scherer, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-89433-151-8 .
• The founding of Berlin. Critical illumination of the writing: About the origin, the age etc. of the cities of Berlin and Cöln, by KF Klöden , director of the municipal trade school in Berlin. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1840 ( books.google.de ).
• Berlin, historically and topographically. CH Jonas, Berlin 1843 ( books.google.de ).
• Emperor Karl IV. Land book of the Mark Brandenburg published according to the handwritten sources . J. Guttentag, Berlin 1856 ( full text ).
• The territories of the Mark Brandenburg or the history of the individual districts as a continuation of the land book of Kaiser Karl IV. J. Guttentag, Berlin, 4 volumes, 1857–1864 ( full texts ). Reprint: De Gruyter, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-11-003420-4 .

literature

• Hilde Altmann-Reich: "Uncle Fidicin" . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins , Volume 67, No. 2, April 1, 1971, pp. 33–34.
• Bodo Rollka, Volker Spiess, Bernhard Thieme (eds.): Berliner Biographisches Lexikon . Haude & Spenersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7759-0369-0 , p. 118.
• Herbert Schwenk: Lexicon of Berlin Urban Development . Haude & Spenersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7759-0472-7 .
• Jutta Schneider: Carl Ernst Fidicin, city archivist and historiographer of Berlin . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 4, 1998, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 25-29 ( luise-berlin.de ).

Web links

Commons : Ernst Fidicin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ernst Fidicin in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hilde Altmann-Reich: "Uncle Fidicin" . In: Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin , Volume 67, No. 2, April 1, 1971, pp. 33f.
2. ↑ diegeschichteberlins.de, accessed on September 17, 2014.
3. ^ Fidicin Street. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Berlin 2006, p. 78.