Ferdinand Friedensburg (numismatist)

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Ferdinand Friedensburg , pseudonym: F. Montanus , (born February 11, 1858 in Liegnitz , Province of Silesia ; † February 5, 1930 in Hirschberg , Province of Lower Silesia ) was a German lawyer and numismatist .

Life

He was the son of the district judge, later mayor of Breslau, Ferdinand Friedensburg, and studied law at the University of Breslau after attending school . In 1878 he passed the trainee exam, in 1884 the assessor exam, then worked in Schweidnitz , became an assistant judge in Breslau in 1887 and a district judge in Gleiwitz in 1889 . In 1891 he was appointed to the Reich Insurance Office in Berlin and there in 1900 he was secret councilor and senate president. In 1909 he retired and moved to Breslau.

In his free time he was intensively concerned with the history of coins in Silesia and also with German history and became one of the most productive numismatists of his time. He completed his habilitation in numismatics at the University of Wroclaw, where he also taught as a private lecturer.

In 1908 he donated his collection of Silesian medieval coins to the Silesian Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities in Wroclaw. In 1924 his second coin collection was auctioned off at Adolph E. Cahn's in Frankfurt, and after his death in 1930 his numismatic library there too.

The politician Ferdinand Friedensburg , born in Schweidnitz in 1886, emerged from his marriage to Severin, born in Clara .

Publications (selection)

  • Silesia's coins and coins before 1220. Lehmann, Berlin 1886, (reprint. Maercker, Ihringen 1984, ISBN 3-924438-01-3 ).
  • Silesia's coin history in the Middle Ages. 3 volumes. Max, Breslau 1887–1904.
    • Part 1: Document book and coin tables (= Codex diplomaticus Silesiae. Vol. 12, ZDB -ID 528603-7 ). 1887, ( digitized version ).
    • Part 2: Silesia's coin history in the Middle Ages (= Codex diplomaticus Silesiae. Vol. 13). 1888, ( digitized version ).
    • Supplementary volume : Silesia's coin history in the Middle Ages (= Codex diplomaticus Silesiae. Vol. 23). 1904.
  • as editor: Silesia's recent coin history (= Codex diplomaticus Silesiae. Vol. 19). Morgensterns Buchhandlung (Wohlfahrt), Breslau 1899, ( digitized ).
  • as editor with Hans Seger : Silesia's coins and medals of the modern era. Association for the Museum of Silesian Antiquities, Breslau 1901, ( digital copy ).
  • The coin in cultural history. Weidmann, Berlin 1909.
  • The symbolism of medieval coins. Volume 1: The simplest symbols. Weidmann, Berlin 1913.
  • Three strange pennies from Magdeburg. In: Sheets for Coin Friends . Vol. 60, 1925, pp. 273-275.
  • Coin studies and monetary history of the individual states of the Middle Ages and modern times (= Handbook of Medieval and Modern History. Dept. 4: Auxiliary Sciences and Antiquities. 7). Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1926.
  • The Silesian coins of the Middle Ages. Silesian Antiquities Association, Breslau 1931.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Collection of the privy councilor Professor Dr. hc Ferdinand Friedensburg: Coins of the German Middle Ages; Auction Monday, October 27th and the following days . Auction catalog No. 52. Adolph E. Cahn, Frankfurt am Main 1924 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Numismatic library of the late Mr. F. Friedensburg. Auctioned May 10, 1930 . Auction catalog No. 67. Adolph E. Cahn, Frankfurt am Main 1930 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Friedensburg, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montanus, F. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1930
Place of death Hirschberg , Province of Lower Silesia