Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil Roth

Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil Roth (instead of Ferdinand: Friedrich; * August 6, 1853 in Eltville ; † February 8, 1924 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German historian .

As an autodidact and private scholar, Roth, who never completed a degree, presented almost 500 publications that dealt primarily with the history of Nassau , the city and the archbishopric of Mainz . In addition, he published a lot of material on the history of book printing on the Middle Rhine . Roth was a Catholic denomination. For several years he was treated as a paranoid in the sanatorium on the Kiedricher Eichberg .

Fonts (selection)

Peter Friedberg's print shop in Mainz (1491–1499) and its products . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 4, 1887, pp. 394–403 ( online ).
The printer Friedrich Heuman in Mainz 1508–1512 . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 10 (1893), pp. 476-482 ( online ).
Letters from Henricus de Hassia . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 11 (1894), p. 125 ( online ).
A letter from Stanislas Hosius Bishop of Warsaw in 1558 . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 11 (1894), pp. 125–126 ( online ).
Heinrich Kalteisen ord. Praedicatorum . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 11 (1894), pp. 320–322 ( online ).
The Lorichius family of scholars from Hadamar . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 11 (1894), pp. 368–384 ( online ).

literature

Konrad Fuchs: ROTH, Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 . ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Klaus Graf: Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil Roth (1853-1924) as a forger . In: Archivalia from October 1, 2015

Individual evidence

↑ According to the baptism entry, Roth's only first name is Emil ; he later acquired the first names Ferdinand and Wilhelm . Cf. Hans Kremer: A Middle Rhine relief in the cathedral of Esztergom in Hungary . In: Mainzer Zeitschrift 76, 1981, pp. 55–57, here p. 55, note 3.

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil Roth - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil Roth - Sources and full texts

Roth, Emil. Hessian biography. (As of January 18, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

personal data
SURNAME	Roth, Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Roth, Friedrich Wilhelm Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eltville
DATE OF DEATH	February 8, 1924
Place of death	Offenbach am Main

[1] According to the baptism entry, Roth's only first name is Emil ; he later acquired the first names Ferdinand and Wilhelm . Cf. Hans Kremer: A Middle Rhine relief in the cathedral of Esztergom in Hungary . In: Mainzer Zeitschrift 76, 1981, pp. 55–57, here p. 55, note 3.