Franz Joseph Bodmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oil painting in the Landesmuseum Mainz

Franz Joseph Bodmann (born May 3, 1754 in Aura an der Saale (Lower Franconia), † October 20, 1820 in Mainz ) was a German lawyer, historian, librarian and history forger.

Live and act

Bodmann was born as the son of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg bailiff Philipp Ferdinand Bodmann († May 9, 1795). His mother († August 2, 1794) was called Anna Maria Apollonia Bodmann, née Siebenbag. Both parents are buried in Aura an der Saale.

Bodmann studied law in Würzburg and Göttingen. In 1780 he became professor of law in Mainz, in 1805 vice-president of the civil court and in 1811 president of the finance court in Mainz. From 1806 until his dispensation after the withdrawal of the French troops in 1814 , he headed the Mainz city library .

His earlier highly esteemed publications on regional history - his main work are the Rheingau antiquities - have been partially devalued by serious forgeries that were not discovered until the end of the 19th century. So he forged the Rheingau land law from Dutch sources and rewrote the judgments of the Ingelheimer Oberhof to Eltville . As Mainz city librarian, he alienated the holdings entrusted to him, mutilated manuscripts and prints. He also stole from other institutions: "Wherever he used an archive, he tore what he wanted to include in his works from the originals and added it to his manuscript".

Large parts of Bodmann's extensive handwritten collections came to Friedrich Gustav Habel , were temporarily stored at Mildenburg ( Miltenberg Castle ) and loaned to the Reichsarchiv in Munich by Wilhelm Conrady . Reclaimed by the heirs, the stock was sold. Remnants have been preserved primarily in the Hessian state archives in Darmstadt (largely destroyed in World War II) and Marburg.

swell

literature

  • Karl Georg Bockenheimer :  Bodmann, Franz Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 15-17.
  • Historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (ed.): The chronicles of the German cities from the 14th to the 16th century. Volume 18: The Chronicles of the Middle Rhine Cities. Mainz. Volume 2. Hirzel, Leipzig 1882, p. VI and more often, online .
  • Herbert Meyer: The so-called Rheingau land law, a forgery by Franz Joseph Bodmann. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department. Vol. 24, No. 1, 1903, ISSN  0323-4045 , pp. 309-337, online .
  • Hans Wibel : Five forgeries of Franz Joseph Bodmann's documents. In: New archive of the society for older German history. Vol. 30, No. 1, 1905, ISSN  0179-9940 , pp. 165-172, online .
  • Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil Roth : FJ Bodmann, a forger of the Mainz and Rheingau regional history. In: German history sheets. Monthly to promote regional historical research. Vol. 10, No. 5/6, 1909, ZDB -ID 216893-5 , pp. 133-152, Commons .
  • Gottfried Zedler: Critical studies on the history of the Rheingau. With an appendix: Bleidenstadt traditions. Contributions to the Nassau and Mainz history of the Middle Ages (= Nassau Annals. Vol. 45, 1918/1921, ISSN  0077-2887 ). Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research, Wiesbaden 1921, online .
  • Adalbert Erler : FJ Bodmann, a promoter and forger of the Rhenish legal history. In: Yearbook for the Diocese of Mainz. Vol. 5, 1950, ISSN  0720-2113 , pp. 473-493.
  • Heinrich Büttner : To the Bodmann problem. A contribution to the intellectual history of the 18th century and to document research. In: Historical yearbook . Vol. 74, 1954, pp. 363-372.
  • Adalbert Erler:  Bodmann, Franz Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 360 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Elisabeth Darapsky : The losses of the Mainz city library under the leadership of FJ Bodmann and the trial against the heirs of Bodmann. In: Mainz magazine. Middle Rhine yearbook for archeology, art and history. Vol. 54, 1959, pp. 12-30.
  • Hermann Knaus: Bodmann and Maugérard. In: Archives for the history of the book industry. Vol. 1, 1956/1958, ISSN  0066-6327 , pp. 175-178.
  • Helmut Mathy : Franz Joseph Bodmann - controversial, but extremely learned. In: Annelen Ottermann, Stephan Fliedner (Hrsg.): 200 years of the Mainz City Library (= publications of the Mainz City Libraries. Vol. 52). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05202-3 , pp. 59-65.
  • Dieter Werkmüller : Bodmann, Franz Josef (1754-1820). In: Concise dictionary on German legal history. Volume 1: Aachen - Spiritual Bank. 2nd, completely revised and enlarged edition. Schmidt, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-503-07912-4 , S. Sp. 629-630.

Web links

Commons : Franz Joseph Bodmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Franz Joseph Bodmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyer p. 330.
personal data
SURNAME Bodmann, Franz Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, historian, librarian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Aura on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1820
Place of death Mainz