Friedrich Philippi

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Friedrich Philippi (photo 1903)

Gustav Friedrich Dettmar Philippi (born July 14, 1853 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † April 26, 1930 in Münster ) was a German university professor , historian and archivist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Elberfeld (1872), Friedrich Philippi studied philology at the University of Bonn , where he was a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity and graduated with a doctorate magna cum laude (subject of his dissertation: De Tabula Peutingeriana - The Peutinger Table , an old one Roman military map with the road network from Spain to India) from Heinrich von Sybel . In Bonn he joined the Prussian archive service. Stations were the state archives in Berlin and Stettin, in 1888 he became head of the state archive in Osnabrück, and from 1897 archive director at the state archive in Münster . In 1886 he identified the Cappenberger Barbarossa head as a portrait of the Hohenstaufen Frederick I . From 1897 to 1903 Philippi was chairman and managing director of the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia and from 1899 to 1908 chairman of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . Between 1897 and 1901 he was in charge of the excavation work at the Roman camp near Haltern .

From 1900 Philippi was honorary professor for history of the Philosophical and Natural Science Faculty, initially at the Theological-Philosophical Academy in Münster, and in 1923 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law. He is buried in the Münster Central Cemetery . The funeral speech was given by his friend, the theologian Julius Smend . In 1960 a street in Münster was named after him.

family

Philippi was the youngest child of the district court president Johann Friedrich Hector Philippi from Elberfeld. His older brother was the painter Heinrich Ludwig Philippi . He was married to Mathilde Steinkopff (1868–1961). His son Dettmar Philippi (1889–1981) was involved in the church struggle and a member of the Protestant regional synod .

Fonts (selection)

  • (with Roger Wilmans ): The Imperial Documents of the Province of Westphalia 777-1313 , Münster 1867/1881, digitized .
  • De tabula Peutingeriana. Accedunt fragmenta Agrippae geographica . Bonn 1876.
  • The seals of the XI. and XII. Century and the equestrian seal . Münster 1882 (= The Westphalian seals of the Middle Ages , 1).
  • On the history of the Reich Chancellery under the last Staufers Friedrich II., Heinrich (VII.) And Conrad IV. Coppenrath, Münster 1885.
  • (Ed.): Siegener Urkundenbuch , 2 vol., Siegen 1887–1926 (ND Osnabrück 1975).
  • (Ed. With Hermann Forst): The Chronicles of the Middle Ages , Osnabrück 1891 (= Osnabrück historical sources and research , 1) ND 1977.
  • Osnabrücker Urkundenbuch , 3 Bde., Osnabrück 1892–1899 (ND Osnabrück 1969–1977).
  • On the constitutional history of the Westphalian bishopric cities . Osnabrück 1894 Digitized at the Bielefeld University Library .
  • (Ed.): Westphalian land rights , Münster i. W. 1907.
  • (Edited with F. Teubner): Siegel , Leipzig 1914 (= certificates and seals in replicas for academic use , 4).
  • Introduction to the doctrine of documents in the German Middle Ages . Bonn 1920.
  • Atlas of secular antiquity of the German Middle Ages . Bonn [u. a.] 1923/24.
  • History of Westphalia . Paderborn 1926, digitized at the Bielefeld University Library .

literature

  • Alois Bömer, Franz Cramer , Wilhelm Dersch a . a .: From the past and the present. Festgabe, Friedrich Philippi on July 14, 1923, dedicated by his students, colleagues and friends . Regensberg, Münster 1923.
  • Obituary for go. Government Councilor, State Archives Director Dr. Friedrich Philippi . In: Communications of the Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück , vol. 52 (1930).
  • Wilfried Reininghaus : Friedrich Philippi. Archivist and historian in Wilhelmine times - a biography (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , NF 15 = publications of the State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia , 47), Aschendorff, Münster 2014.
  • Wilfried Reininghaus: “After long hesitation and with serious reservations”. The “History of Westphalia” by Friedrich Philippi (1926) as the sum of a historian's life . In: Werner Freitag , Wilfried Reininghaus (Hrsg.): Westphalian history builders. Regional historical research and regional historiography in the 19th and 20th centuries . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-15118-1 , pp. 29-44.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Philippi  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 386.
  2. ↑ Journal for patriotic history and antiquity , vol. 1886, pp. 150–161.
  3. ^ Website of the city of Münster .
personal data
SURNAME Philippi, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philippi, Gustav Friedrich Dettmar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1930
Place of death Muenster