Friedrich Lau

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Karl Friedrich Lau (born June 1, 1867 in Lübeck , † February 5, 1947 in Stockum near Krefeld ) was a German archivist and historian.

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Friedrich Lau came from a merchant family and was a son of the Lübeck merchant and sugar manufacturer Jochim Ludwig Friedrich Lau (born August 13, 1819 in Lübeck; † January 31, 1903) and his wife Anna Therese Auguste, née Janick, widowed Lau. His mother was a widow of Hermann Heinrich Lau's brother (born August 13, 1832 in Lübeck; † August 4, 1912 there).

Lau visited the Katharineum in Lübeck and from 1887 studied history in Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin and Bonn . He finished his studies in 1891 with the doctorate to Dr. phil. During his studies he heard from Heinrich von Treitschke , Georg von Below and Reinhold Koser . From 1893 to 1897 he worked as a volunteer at the Cologne City Archives . In October 1898 he accepted a call from his previous teacher, Koser, to the Berlin State Archives . He worked as an archive assistant at the Stettin State Archive until January 1901 and then at the Düsseldorf State Archive until October 1902 , where he also managed the State Library.

In November 1906 Lau was appointed royal archivist, in December 1916 an archivist and in April 1920 a state archivist. In 1932 he retired. From the beginning of his professional career until after retirement, he worked extensively on a scientific basis. In 1896 he wrote his second scientific work, in which he explained the municipal constitution and administration of Cologne, for which he received a prize from the Mevissen Foundation.

Lau studied extensively preserved sources and compiled materials on the history of law and constitution of the cities of Siegburg and Neuss and the topography of Jülich for the Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde . He revised the Frankfurt document book (Codex diplomaticus Moenofrancofurtanus) started by Johann Friedrich Böhmer , which contains two volumes of documents on the history of the city of Frankfurt am Main from 794 to 1340. He also wrote articles about the history of Düsseldorf that are still worth mentioning today .

Lau was considered to be one of the most important employees of the Düsseldorf Archives, who also took on simple work and created, for example, lists of officials on Jülich-Berg , Düsseldorf government colleges and the court of Johann Wilhelm, who was in power from 1679 to 1716. In his free time he was occupied with entomological topics. During the Second World War , his extensive collection of sources was destroyed by bomb hits. For this reason, his activities as a publicist ended.

Lau died unmarried.

Honors

Lau received numerous awards for his work. The Düsseldorf History Association made him an honorary member in 1930. The Düsseldorf Jonges awarded him the Golden Jan Wellem Medal in 1937.

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  1. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann : Lau, Friedrich . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 279.
  2. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann : Lau, Friedrich . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , pages 279-280.
  3. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann : Lau, Friedrich . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 280.
  4. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann : Lau, Friedrich . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 280.
  5. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann : Lau, Friedrich . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 280.
  6. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann : Lau, Friedrich . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 280.
personal data
SURNAME Lau, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lau, Karl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1947
Place of death Stockum near Krefeld