Friedrich Gorissen

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Friedrich Gorissen (born April 19, 1912 in Kleve ; † September 27, 1993 ) was a Lower Rhine historian , archivist and museum director .

Life

Gorissen was born as the son of the Clever businessman Heinrich Gorissen and his wife Hubertine, b. Schauenberg, born on April 19, 1912, the first of five children. From 1922 to 1931 he attended the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck near Goch , where he came into contact with the history of the Lower Rhine and original historical sources. From 1931 he studied architecture in Gdansk , but dropped out after just four semesters in 1933. After a few years in which he mainly dealt self-taught with the history of Kleve and the region, he began studying history at the University of Cologne in 1938 . After parts of the already completed dissertation manuscript on the historical topography of the city of Kleve were lost after the Second World War, Gorissen received his doctorate in 1952 on "Landscape and Settlement Area of ​​Kleve".

From 1955 until his retirement in 1977, Gorissen was in charge of the Klever City Archives and, from 1958, also set up the BC Koekkoek House Museum . His main focus was on the history of the city of Kleve and its immediate surroundings (including Kalkar , Nijmegen , Kranenburg , Xanten ), as well as the county or the Duchy of Kleve . In addition to scientific publications, Gorissen published a large number of articles in local calendars and newspapers with which he wanted to address a wider audience for local and regional history. It was a particular concern of his to raise awareness of the “Niederrheinlande” on both sides of the German-Dutch border as a coherent historical cultural landscape. In 1992 Gorissen received the Johann Moritz Culture Prize from the city of Kleve.

Friedrich Gorissen's scientific legacy is in the Kleve City Archives, the part relating to the city of Kalkar in the Kalkar City Archives.

Publications (selection)

  • Land on the Lower Rhine: A local history for the border region between the Meuse and the Rhine . Boss, Kleve 1949.
  • Lower Rhine City Atlas : 1.1: Kleve . Boss, Kleve 1952. 1.2: Kalkar . Boss, Kleve 1953. 2.1: Nijmegen . Boss, Kleve 1956.
  • City accounts of Wesel (= publications of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde 55; Regesta on the political history of the Lower Rhine 1), 5 volumes. Hanstein, Bonn 1963–1968.
  • Conspectus Cliviae: The Klevian Residence in 17th Century Art . Boss, Kleve 1964.
  • History of the city of Kleve. From the residence to the bourgeois town, from the Enlightenment to inflation . Boss, Kleve 1977.
  • Florilegium Xantense. Xanten in literature from 1464-1892 . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7927-0808-6
  • Cattle (Harenatium - Rinharen). Roman Limes fort, Anglo-Scottish Coenobium Willibrords, feudal manorial power and glory, Deichschau . Vol. 1: From the beginning of settlement to the end of glory. Presentation and sources . Kleve 1985, ISBN 3-924637-04-0
  • Documents and registers of the Monterberg-Kleve monastery , 2 volumes. Boss, Kleve 1989–1990.
  • Historical topography of the city of Kleve. From the beginning to the beginning of the Brandenburg period . Boss, Kleve 1992, ISBN 3-89413-188-8

literature

  • Linker Niederrhein Association in Krefeld (ed.): Niederrheinisches Jahrbuch 1976. Volume XIII. Albert Steeger grant from the Rhineland Regional Council , Krefeld 1976

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personal data
SURNAME Gorissen, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1993