Felix Rosenfeld

Felix Rosenfeld (born April 22, 1872 in Bromberg ; † July 5, 1917 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

Born as the son of a post office clerk and Mennonite descendant in Bromberg, Felix Rosenfeld attended school in Hirschberg, Silesia. He later switched to high school in Memel and Marburg. At the city's University Rosenfeld studied history, and he also was the first graduate of the newly founded School of Archives Marburg . In 1895 he graduated as Dr. phil. with the dissertation published in print in 1896 on the composition of the Liber pontificalis up to Pope Constantine .

Felix Rosenfeld received his first job as archivist in Naumburg (Saale) in the archives of the cathedral chapter there, where he stayed until the end of 1897. In 1898 he moved to the Marburg State Archives on a trial basis , where he did not stay, however, but instead moved to the Magdeburg State Archives as an unskilled worker in April . From 1899 to 1900 Felix Rosenfeld was seconded to the Secret State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem, where he was involved in the creation of the Germanicum Repertory . From July 1900 to April 1908 he worked at the Magdeburg State Archives and was then transferred to the Marburg State Archives, where he was appointed archivist in 1912.

When the First World War broke out in 1914, he volunteered as a nurse. In autumn 1915 he was called up for army service and was used as a Landsturmmann in the infantry. On April 11, 1917, he was wounded by shrapnel on the Western Front and died of the consequences of the lung disease caused by this injury in July 1917 in a hospital in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. He left the widow Emma Rosenfeld.

Works

• The creation of the Magdeburg War and Domain Chamber . In: History sheets for the city and state of Magdeburg . tape 39 , 1904, pp. 126-142 ( archive.org ).

• From Magdeburg cathedral building. For the 700th anniversary of the founding of the cathedral . In: Geschichtsblätter für Stadt und Land Magdeburg , Volume 44, 1909, pp. 1-20.
• (me Richard Hamann): The Magdeburg Cathedral. Contributions to the history and aesthetics of medieval architecture, ornamentation and sculpture , 1910.
• Document book of the Hochstift Naumburg , part 1 (967–1207), ed. by the Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt, Magdeburg, self-published by the Historical Commission, 1925.
• (with Otto Grotefeld): Regesten der Landgrave von Hessen , Bd. 1. Lfg 1. 2, Marburg an der Lahn, 1909–1929.

Web links

• Literature by and about Felix Rosenfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at the University of Magdeburg
• Rosenfeld, Felix .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .