Franz Boll (historian)

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Franz Boll. Painting by Bernhard Reinhold (around 1874)

Franz Christian Boll (born October 17, 1805 in Neubrandenburg ; † March 20, 1875 there ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian , educator and historian .

Life

Franz Boll was the eldest surviving son of the Neubrandenburg pastor Franz Christian Boll (1775–1818) and his wife Friederike, b. Brückner (1780–1839), a daughter of the Neubrandenburg doctor Adolf Brückner (1744–1823).

Boll was 12 years old when his father died unexpectedly, giving him the role of head of the family. He attended the Neubrandenburg School of Academics, then studied Protestant theology in Halle, Berlin and Rostock from 1824 to 1827 , completed a candidate period in Leizen and Dambeck and returned to Neubrandenburg in 1835. Here he became second pastor in 1836 (responsible for the parish of St. Johannis) and first teacher at the Neubrandenburg Citizens' School, which at that time was still attached to the Great City School. From 1839 he worked as a sub-principal of that school. In 1866, his brothers in office elected him to the presidency of the Neubrandenburg Synod.

Together with his brother Ernst Boll , who lived in his household all his life, Franz Boll was involved in the Neubrandenburg reform movement in 1848. In later years Fritz Reuter belonged to his circle of friends , who erected a monument to him in De Urgeschicht 'von Mecklenborg .

Franz Boll dealt with the history of Mecklenburg and in particular the Stargard rule , for which he evaluated more than 200 documents from various archives, but also carried out studies on the history of churches and saints. He participated in the archaeological investigation of Ravensburg , in Ihlenfeld and on the islands of Bacherswall and Hanfwerder in Lieps and the Fischerinsel in Tollensesee . He ran intensive source collections on the history of the city of Neubrandenburg and the Broda monastery . Around the middle of the century, Boll was considered to be the capacity for all historical questions in the south-east Mecklenburg region. He was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , was one of the founders of the Neubrandenburg Museum in 1872 and is considered its spiritual father.

After a long phase of other orientation, Boll finally found his way back to historical topics under the impression of the reawakening German national feeling after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and began intensive preparations for a "Chronicle of the Vorderstadt Neubrandenburg" , which he worked on despite waning strength and the only partial recovery from a severe typhoid fever found in 1867 worked feverishly. Boll was able to accompany the first deliveries of his city chronicle, but did not live to see the completion of the printing work that his son had completed.

Franz Boll had been married to the Neubrandenburg merchant's daughter Auguste (Johanna Wilhelmine) Krull (1821–1886) (1821–1886) and had six children, of which the three daughters Friederike (1842–1908), Anna (1852–1887) and Luise (1853–1925) had been married since 1841 ) and a son, Franz Boll (1849–1879), the father survived. From Friederike (called Friede) Boll, married. Scheven, memoirs have been passed down and have since been edited, which paint a colorful picture of their Neubrandenburg parents' house.

estate

Most of Franz Boll's estate remained in the family's possession and is now considered lost. His collection of materials and copies or parts of them on the topics of Neubrandenburg city and regional history as well as individual memorabilia are now in the collections of the Regional Museum Neubrandenburg , letters received by both brothers from Fritz Reuter in the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum in Stavenhagen, both sent to Fritz Reuter Letters in the Goethe and Schiller Archive Weimar.

Works (selection)

  • History of the country of Stargard up to 1471. 2 parts. Neustrelitz, 1846–1847 (digital copies: part 1 , part 2 ).
  • He wrote individual chapters for the main historical work of his brother Ernst Boll: The history of Mecklenburg, with special consideration of the cultural history. 2nd volumes. 1855-1856 [reprint 1995].
  • Chronicle of the Vorderstadt Neubrandenburg. Neubrandenburg, 1875 [Reprints: Federchen-Verlag, Neubrandenburg 1991. ISBN 3-910170-04-8 ; Suum cuique, Reutlingen 1996. ISBN 3-927292-59-1 ].
  • “Rejoice, you Mecklenburgers!” Mecklenburg in 1848. Handed down as a manuscript in the Neustrelitz city archive, first edited in 1998 by Arnold Hückstädt . Federchen-Verlag, Neubrandenburg 1998. ISBN 3-910170-31-5 .

literature

  • Ludwig Fromm:  Boll, Franz Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 108.
  • Peter Maubach: Neubrandenburg - the way it was . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1997. ISBN 3-7700-1083-3 . Pp. 32-34.
  • Fritz Reuter. Letters. Compiled and commented on by Arnold Hückstädt. 3 volumes. Hinstorff, Rostock 2009/2010. [Contains all letters from Reuter to Boll].
  • Peter Starsy: "I also wrote to Reuter" - the letters to Fritz Reuter from Neubrandenburg and the surrounding area. In: City of Neubrandenburg [ed.]: "I will never forget the friendly Vorderstadt Neubrandenburg". Fritz Reuter on his 200th birthday. Festschrift. Hinstorff, Rostock 2010. ISBN 978-3-356-01374-0 . Pp. 43-120. [Contains all of Boll's letters to Reuter].

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Hückstädt : Friederike Ernestine Scheven b. Boll (1842-1908). Stations in her life and autobiographical descriptions of her childhood in Neubrandenburg. In: Neubrandenburger Mosaik, Vol. 28 (2004), pp. 15–42.
personal data
SURNAME Boll, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boll, Franz Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubrandenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1875
Place of death Neubrandenburg