Friedrich Roth (historian)
Friedrich Roth (born May 13, 1854 in Neuburg an der Donau , † March 15, 1930 in Munich ) was a German historian and teacher.
The son of the archivist Emil Roth studied German, history and geography at the university and the Technical University of Munich from 1875. From 1878 he taught at the Ludwigskreisrealschule in Munich, from 1898 to 1903 at the Kreisreal- und Industrial School in Augsburg . Retired in 1903 because of a serious throat problem, the former high school professor devoted himself to scientific studies in Munich and Augsburg archives and libraries from his Munich residence. In addition to numerous academic articles, he presented a four-volume history of the Augsburg Reformation and edited no fewer than six volumes in the series Die Chroniken der deutschen Stadt (Volumes 22, 25, 29, 32, 33, 34) on Augsburg Chronicles. Not least because of this, he was an excellent expert on the Augsburg sources of the 15th and 16th centuries. Century.
In 1921 Roth, who felt strongly connected to Protestant church historiography, received an honorary theological doctorate from the University of Erlangen .
literature
- Who is it . Leipzig 1909, p. 1177 Internet Archive ; 1922, p. 1299 Internet Archive .
- Intellectual and artistic Munich in autobiographies . Munich 1913, p. 305f. Commons .
- Friedrich Mezger: Friedrich Roth. On the 100th birthday of a Bavarian church historian . In: Journal for Bavarian Church History 23 (1954), pp. 209–211. The enclosed bibliography of the writings of Friedrich Kreiner is available in the Internet Archive .
- Friedrich Wilhelm Kantzenbach: Protestant church history research in the context of Bavarian historiography . In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte 40 (1977), pp. 553-624, here pp. 572f. ( online ).
Web links
- Mennonite Encyclopedia 1959, online version (with wrong date of death)
- Findagrave (photo of the tomb in Augsburg)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roth, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuburg on the Danube |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1930 |
| Place of death | Munich |