Friedrich Wigger (archivist)

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Peter Gottlieb Daniel Friedrich Wigger (born June 17, 1825 in Dassow ; † September 24, 1886 in Schwerin ) was a German archivist. He was the first archivist to head the Grand Ducal Secret and Main Archives Schwerin in Mecklenburg .

Life

Friedrich Wigger was born as the son of the Kramer Joachim Friederich Heinerich Wigger and his wife Elisabeth Louise Catharina, geb. Kniep, born. He attended the Ratzeburg Cathedral School . From 1844 he studied philology and history, first in Göttingen, where he became a member of the Hercynia Göttingen Progreß fraternity in 1845 , and later in Berlin. In 1848 Wigger passed the pro facultate docendi exam , comparable to the First State Exam. The methods of Karl Lachmann had a great and lasting influence on him , but later he had the reputation of supporting contested traditions rather than attacking them. After completing his studies, Friedrich Wigger was initially a private teacher. At Michaelmas 1855 he got a job as a teacher at the Gymnasium Fridericianum in Schwerin. In 1859 he published a "High German grammar with consideration for the Low German dialect", which was intended for Mecklenburg schools. In 1860 he was given the title of "senior teacher".

Friedrich Wigger's interest was always in the archives of Mecklenburg. So he took over the editing of the "Scientific Commission for the Publication of a Mecklenburg Document Book", confirmed by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II on January 28, 1861, and therefore left school. He was given the position of registrar at the Grand Ducal Secret and Main Archives and was also the second librarian of the government library. As early as 1860 for the 25th anniversary of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , he published the "Mecklenburg Annals up to 1066". In this chronologically ordered collection of sources on Mecklenburg and West Slavic history, which was very important for the historiography of Mecklenburg, he was the first to refer to the travel report of Ibrahim ibn Yaqub .

In 1864 Friedrich Wigger was appointed (third) archivist, in 1876 as archivist and in 1883 as secret archivist. In 1876 he actually took over the business of the Association for Mecklenburg History , which Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch nominally kept until 1879. In 1880 he became the first secretary of the “Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher” and first archivist of the Grand Ducal Archives.

Awards

Works

Friedrich Wigger published his findings on regional history mostly in the yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and was there for a time also responsible for the association's “quarterly reports” . His "Family Tables of the Grand Ducal House of Meklenburg" and his "Directory of the Gravesites of the Grand Ducal House of Meklenburg" , both contained in the anniversary volume 50 (1885) of the yearbooks, are still the most important and most reliable source for the genealogy of the Mecklenburg Princely House.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see paragraph 246
  2. ↑ Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Handbook 1880, p. 40
  3. ↑ Order according to Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Handbook 1880, p. 40
  4. ^ Friedrich Wigger: Family tables of the Grand Ducal House of Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity, Vol. 50 (1885), pp. 111–326 ( full text + digitized version ).
  5. ^ Friedrich Wigger: Directory of the graves of the Grand Ducal House of Meklenburg. In: Year books of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Vol. 50 (1885), pp. 327–342 ( full text + digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Wigger, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wigger, Peter Gottlieb Daniel Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Dassow
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1886
Place of death Schwerin