Felix Papencordt
Felix Papencordt (* 1811 or 1812 in Paderborn ; † April 27, 1841 in Warburg ) was a German historian .
Life
Felix Papencordt, the son of a farmer, attended the Theodorianum high school in Paderborn and studied history and philosophy at the universities of Bonn , Munich and Berlin . His academic teachers included the historians Barthold Georg Niebuhr (Bonn) and Leopold von Ranke (Berlin) as well as the philosophers Christian August Brandis , August Wilhelm Schlegel (both Bonn) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (Munich). At Brandis' suggestion, his dissertation on Greek atomistics went back, with the Papencordt on September 15, 1832 as Dr. phil. received his doctorate . After completing his doctorate, however, he turned to history, especially late antiquity . The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris presented the 1833 prize question, a history of the Vandal domination in North Africa to write. Papencordt won the award in 1835, published his history of the vandal rulership in Africa in 1837, also in German, and received rich praise from the professional world for it.
After this initial success, Papencordt received a scholarship from the Collegium Preuckianum, which enabled him to go on an extensive research trip to Italy. From 1836 to 1840 Papencordt stayed mainly in Rome, but also traveled to other cities in Italy. His research focus shifted from late antiquity to the Middle Ages . In 1840 he returned to Berlin and lived there as a private scholar. On December 15, 1840, he was appointed a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1841 he published his study on Cola di Rienzo and his time , which appeared in Italian in 1844 and in French in 1845.
Although he had not completed his habilitation , Papencordt was appointed associate professor of history at the University of Bonn in March 1841. On April 1, 1841, he left Berlin and went to Bonn; but he did not achieve his goal, because on April 27, 1841 he died in Warburg of a lung defect. His estate was deposited in the Royal Library in Berlin in 1845 (lost in the war since 1945).
In 1857 Constantin von Höfler published the history of the city of Rome in the Middle Ages from the estate , Papencordt's most extensive work. After a few years it was supplanted by the historical works of Ferdinand Gregorovius ( History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages , Stuttgart 1859–1870) and Alfred von Reumont ( History of the City of Rome , Berlin 1867–1870).
Fonts (selection)
- De Atomicorum doctrina commentationis specimen primum . Berlin 1832 (dissertation)
- History of Vandal rule in Africa . Berlin 1837
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Cola di Rienzo and its time . Hamburg / Gotha 1841
- Italian translation: Cola di Rienzo e il suo tempo . Turin 1844
- French translation: Rienzi et Rome à son époque . Paris 1845
- Konstantin Höfler (editor): History of the city of Rome in the Middle Ages . Paderborn 1857
literature
- Journal of Patriotic History and Antiquity . Volume 4 (1841), pp. 354-357.
- Wilhelm Dorow: Reminiscences. Goethe's mother; along with letters and notes on the characteristics of other strange men and women . Leipzig 1842, 1-24
- New Nekrolog der Deutschen, 19th year 1841, Weimar 1843, p. 423f. No. 131
- Franz Xaver von Wegele : Papencordt, Felix . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 140 f.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Papencordt, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1811 or 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paderborn |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1841 |
| Place of death | Warburg |