Friedrich Noack

Friedrich Noack (pseudonym: F. Idus , born April 20, 1858 in Gießen , † February 1, 1930 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German journalist, writer and cultural historian. Noack studied at the University of Giessen , where he received his doctorate in 1881 . In 1886 he wrote a modern version of Sebastian Brant's “Ship of Fools” and published it with his own illustrations. From 1887 he worked in the editor of the Krefelder Zeitung. From July 1, 1891, he worked as a correspondent for the Kölnische Zeitung in Rome, where he stayed until 1915.

For his works on Germans in Rome , he created a comprehensive archive of notes. On over 18,000 pieces of paper it contains over 11,000 entries on artists working in Rome and their clients, mostly in old shorthand , Gabelsberger system , but also newspaper clippings and archive extracts. Today the material is kept in the archives of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and is accessible online. Based on this material, he also wrote numerous articles for the Thieme-Becker artist lexicon .

Fonts

• Hardenberg and the Secret Cabinet of Friedrich Wilhelm III. from the Treaty of Potsdam to the Battle of Jena. Ricker, Giessen 1881 (dissertation, University of Giessen, 1881).
• Old Sebastian Brand's New Ship of Fools. Discovered and edited by Dr. F. Idus. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1886.
• Italian sketchbook. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Cotta, Stuttgart 1900 (I. Life and goings-on in today's Rome; II. All across Italy; III. Across the sea to the islands and neighboring shores).
• German life in Rome from 1700 to 1900. Cotta, Stuttgart 1907.
• The German Rome. Frank, Rome 1912.
• The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. 2 volumes. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927. (Digitized version of the Bodleian Libraries: Volume 1 , PDF, 188.9 MB; Volume 2 , PDF, 140 MB).

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Noack in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Noack: Schedarium of the Artists in Rome Digitization of the Bibliotheca Hertziana