Fridrich Pfaff
Fridrich August Georg Karl Ludwig Pfaff (born November 21, 1855 in Darmstadt , † April 17, 1917 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German historian, German scholar and librarian at the Freiburg University Library .
Fridrich Pfaff came from a Hessian forest ranger family. His father Ludwig was a painter. After completing high school, he studies at the University of Heidelberg , especially with Karl Bartsch . At the age of 27 he went to the university library in Freiburg im Breisgau and was employed there as a regular librarian in 1888. After Anton Birlinger's death , Pfaff took over the publication of Alemannia in 1892 . In 1902 he was appointed professor and in 1913 councilor. He died at the age of 62 on April 17, 1917 in Freiburg im Breisgau. After his death, the Alemannia was not continued. The manuscript catalog he had begun in the Freiburg University Library remained unfinished.
In 1893 he co-founded the Association for Baden Folklore and for many years was the first chairman of the association, chairman of the Freiburg department of the German Language Association and on the board of the Society for History of the Breisgau.
In the years before the First World War, he lived at Starkenstrasse 1 in the Freiburg district of Herdern.
Works
- Guillaume Fichet's letter on the invention of printing . In: Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , vol. 5, 1888, pp. 201–206 ( digitized version).
- Complete text edition: Die Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse). In true text print [originally in deliveries between 1899 and 1909] published by Fridrich Pfaff. Title edition of the second, improved and expanded edition, edited by Hellmut Salowsky. University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg 1984, ISBN 3-533-03525-5 .
literature
- Gustav Wolf : Fridrich Pfaff † In: Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine NF Volume 32, 1917, pp. 468-470 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Fridrich Pfaff in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfaff, Fridrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pfaff, Fridrich August Georg Karl Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian, Germanist and university librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1917 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |