Friedrich Küch

Friedrich Küch (born March 3, 1863 in Salmünster , † September 18, 1935 in Marburg ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

In 1869 Friedrich Küch moved because of the displacement of the father, who as treasurer worked for Hanau . Friedrich Küch attended the High State School there from 1872 to 1881 , where he was a student of Georg Wolff . From 1881 he studied in Leipzig , from 1883 in Marburg , where he received his doctorate in 1887. From 1893 he worked at the Düsseldorf City Archives, from 1898 at the Marburg State Archives , whose director he was from 1914 until his retirement in 1929. In 1922 he became an honorary professor at the University of Marburg.

In 1897 he was a founding member of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck , its secretary from 1900 to 1914, its treasurer from 1914 to 1919 and its chairman from 1919 to 1929. In 1921 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Already in retirement, in November 1933 he signed the German professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler .

His older brother was the physicist and chemist Richard Küch (1860–1915).

Fonts (selection)

Political archive of Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous of Hesse. Inventory of stocks. DNB 450133664 :
- Volume 1: Landgraves' personal details. General department (= publications from the Imperial Prussian State Archives. Volume 78). Hirzel, Leipzig 1904, DNB 578763877 .
- Volume 2: State departments: Kaiser, Aachen – Nuremberg (= publications from the Imperial Prussian state archives. Volume 85). Hirzel, Leipzig 1910, DNB 990738450 .
Sources on the legal history of the city of Marburg. 2 volumes. Elwert, Marburg 1918-1931, DNB 551841028 .
The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Cassel. Volume 8: District of Marburg-Stadt. Part 1: Atlas. Elwert, Marburg 1934, DNB 365177873 .

literature

Fritz Wolff : Friedrich Küch (1863-1935). In: Marburg scholars in the first half of the 20th century (= life pictures from Hesse. Volume 1; publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Volume 35). Edited by Ingeborg Schnack. Elwert, Marburg 1977, ISBN 3-7708-0567-4 , pp. 308-315 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Edmund E. Stengel : Friedrich Küch to the memory. In: Hessenland . 46, 1935, ZDB -ID 501070-6 , pp. 157-159 ( uni-kassel.de ).
Emil Gutbier: Friedrich Küch in memory. In: Archival Journal . 44, 1936, ISSN 0003-9497 , pp. 289-291, doi: 10.7788 / az-1936-jg18 .
Ludwig Zimmermann : Friedrich Küch in memory. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies . 61, 1936, ISSN 0342-3107 , pp. 1-15.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Küch - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Friedrich Küch in the catalog of the German National Library
Küch, Friedrich. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Image. Historical commission for Hessen

Individual evidence

↑ See Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5746, p. 168 ( digitized version ).
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246: Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 141.

personal data
SURNAME	Küch, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salmunster
DATE OF DEATH	September 18, 1935
Place of death	Marburg

[1] See Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5746, p. 168 ( digitized version ).

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246: Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 141.