Ernst Kroker

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Ernst Kroker

Ernst Kroker (born November 21, 1859 in Waldenburg (Saxony) , † August 26, 1927 in Leipzig ) was a German historian and librarian .

Life

Ernst Kroker was the son of the magistrate Gustav Adolf Kroker and his wife Laura Theresa, née Kauffer. After elementary school he attended the Fürstenschule Grimma and the Nikolaigymnasium in Leipzig's Königstrasse. Here he was a student of Gustav Wustmann , who directed his interests to archeology , classical philology and history , which he then also studied at the University of Leipzig .

For his excellent dissertation from 1883 with the archaeologist Johannes Overbeck "Greek artists of the same name" he received a scholarship for a one-year study visit to Italy . In 1884 he became a teacher at a private school in Leipzig. In 1889 Wustmann brought him to the Leipzig city library as a librarian . After his death on January 1, 1911, he became senior librarian and head of the city library, which was opened for general use under his leadership. At the same time he was head of the council archives. He held these offices until 1925.

In 1911 he was awarded the title of professor, and in 1917 granted him the Faculty of Theology of the University of Leipzig for his contributions to the study of the history of the Reformation , the honorary doctorate .

While his first publications mainly dealt with ancient topics, from 1890 he turned more to questions of the history of the city and the region. Some of his works can refer to numerous editions up to recent times.

Kroker was a committed member of the Society for the History of Leipzig, from 1911 to 1926 its chairman and then honorary chairman.

In 1930 the city of Leipzig honored him by naming a street in the Gohlis district as Krokerstraße.

Publications (selection)

  • Catechism of archeology: overview of the development of art among the peoples of antiquity , Leipzig: Weber, 1888
  • Catechism of Mythology , Leipzig 1891, reprinted by Fourier Wiesbaden 1980
  • History of Greek Literature I., Die Poesie , Leipzig: FW Grunow, 1895
  • Dr. Faust and Auerbachs Keller , Leipzig: Dieterich, 1903
  • Catherine of Bora. Martin Luther's wife , Hamburg, Severus Verlag 2013, reprint of the original edition from 1906
  • Two hundred and fifty years of a Leipzig book printer and bookshop: the history of the Dürr'schen Buchhandlung in Leipzig from the founding of its parent company in 1656 to the present and the history of the Dürr family . Dürr, Leipzig 1906 digitized
  • Leipzig , Klinkhardt & Biermann Leipzig 1908
  • Contributions to the history of the city of Leipzig in the age of the Reformation . Leipzig: Hirschfeld, 1908
  • Leipzig and the Saxon mines , In: Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig Vol. 9 (1909) pp. 25–64
  • Trade history of the city of Leipzig , Leipzig, Walter Bielefeld Verlag, (1925)

literature

  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 321/322

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 128
personal data
SURNAME Kroker, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenburg (Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1927
Place of death Leipzig