Felix Wissowa

Felix Wissowa (born January 10, 1866 in Breslau , † September 13, 1917 in Berlin ) was a German historian and librarian .

Felix Wissowa, the grandson of the Breslau Gymnasium Director August Wissowa , studied after attending high school history at the University of Breslau and was on 15 March 1889, the thesis Political relations between England and Germany until the fall of the Staufer doctorate . He dedicated this work to his older brother Georg Wissowa (1859–1931), who at that time was an associate professor of classical philology at the University of Marburg .

After graduating, Wissowa worked for Dietrich Schäfer for a few years , whom he supported in the publication of the Hanseatic Trials . His brother's attempt to get him a job at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica through the mediation of Theodor Mommsen failed. From March 1, 1893 to 1897, Wissowa was a laborer in the city ​​library in Aachen and created an index for the first twenty volumes of the Märkische Forschungsungen . From 1898 to 1900 he was an unskilled worker at the library of the Reichsgericht in Leipzig, after which he worked for the editing of the Brockhaus Lexicon. In 1903 Wissowa got a job as a librarian at the Chamber of Commerce in Berlin , whose holdings he presented in printed catalogs.

Fonts (selection)

• Political relations between England and Germany until the fall of the Staufer , Breslau 1889
• Register A. to the 'Märkische Forschungen' Vol. 1-20; B. on the 'Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History' Vol. 1-10, in: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History , Volume 10, Leipzig 1898
• Catalog of the library of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce , Berlin
  • Volume 1: Law , 1912
  • Volume 2, 1: Economics, History and Theory , 1914

literature

• Karl Bader: Lexicon of German Librarians , Leipzig 1925
• John Scheid , Eckhard Wirbelauer : The correspondance between Georg Wissowa and Theodor Mommsen . In: Corinne Bonnet, Véronique Krings (ed.) S'écrire et écrire sur l'antiquité: l'apport des correspondances à l'histoire des travaux scientifiques , Grenoble 2008, p. 188, note 101.

Web links

• Literature by Felix Wissowa in the catalog of the German National Library