Friedrich Christoph Waterling

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Friedrich Christoph Wäterling (born November 16, 1743 in Wolfenbüttel ; † May 23, 1833 there ) was a German senior archivist . From 1820 to 1823 and from 1825 to 1827 he was managing director of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.

Life

Friedrich Christoph Wäterling was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1743 as the younger son of the law firm Ferdinand Ernst Friedrich Wäterling († 1775). He attended the local high school and studied theology in Helmstedt and Leipzig from 1763 . He passed the first theological exam in 1767 and then worked for seven years as a tutor for the von der Wense family . In 1779 Wäterling became registrar at the Braunschweig State Archives . He was promoted to archives secretary in 1782 and appointed councilor and archivist in 1819 . In 1829, on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in service, Duke Charles II honored him with the title of senior archivist.

Over the course of his long years of service, Wäterling acquired an excellent knowledge of the archives and meticulously carried out his official duties. With increasing age, there was an increasing immobility, which was a hindrance to the further development of the archive. His scientific interest was in the history of Brunswick, as well as in the areas of German coinage , heraldry and diplomacy . Wäterling published a few essays that appeared in the New Hanoverian Magazine in 1802 and 1808 and in the Braunschweigisches Magazin in 1812 and 1814 . During vacancies from 1820 to 1823 and from 1825 to 1827, he was also entrusted with the management of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.

Wäterling remained unmarried throughout his life. He died in May 1833 at the age of 89 in the house where he was born in Wolfenbüttel.

The Wäterlingsche Legatenkasse

Wäterling's older brother, Higher Appeal and Regional Court Procurator in Wolfenbüttel, died in 1820 without an heir and left the younger one with a fortune of 30,000 thalers. Even childless, Friedrich Christoph Wäterling bequeathed his fortune of around 35,000 thalers to the Konsistorial widows' fund with the aim of creating a Wäterling legacy fund and using its capital to benefit poor country school teachers and their widows. The Lower Saxony State Archives in Wolfenbüttel contain receipts from the Wäterlingschen Legatenkasse up to 1923.

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • Otto von Heinemann : The ducal library to Wolfenbüttel. A contribution to the history of German book collections . 2., completely new. Wolfenbüttel 1894 (Reprint Amsterdam 1969), p. 212. ( digitized version ).
  • Chr. Niemeyer: Friedrich Christoph Wäterling . In: Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen 11, 1835, pp. 385–387.
  • Querner: In memory of Christ. Friedr. Dedicated to Wäterling's, senior archivists and Raths zu Wolfenbüttel . In: Braunschweigisches Magazin , Vol. 47, 42nd piece, 1834, pp. 333–334. ( Digitized version )
  • Günter Scheel: Wäterling, Friedrich Christoph . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 637-638 .
  • Real: The Senior Archivist Wäterling . In: Braunschweigisches Magazin , Vol. 48, 12th item, 1835, pp. 89–93. ( Digitized version )
  • The senior archivist and his foundation . In: Braunschweigisches Magazin , Vol. 73, 50th piece, 1860, pp. 485-490. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ action: The Chief Archivist Wäterling . In: Braunschweigisches Magazin , Vol. 48, 12th item, 1835, p. 90.
  2. ^ Chr. Niemeyer: Friedrich Christoph Wäterling . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen 11, 1835, p. 386.
  3. ↑ Günter Scheel: Wäterling, Christoph Friedrich . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 637 .
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Milde : Cut up, paused and forged Lessing autographs . In: Bodo Plachta (Ed.): Literature as a memory. Winfried Woesler on his 65th birthday , Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2004, p. 114.
  5. ↑ NLA WO 14 Alt Fb. 3 No. 65
personal data
SURNAME Waterling, Friedrich Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1833
Place of death Wolfenbüttel