Fritz Goebel (librarian)

Johann Friedrich Goebel (born June 21, 1869 in Belum - Kehdingbruch , † May 15, 1927 in Hanover ) was a German librarian.

Life

Johann Friedrich (Fritz) Goebel was born as the son of pastor Christian Friedrich Goebel (1821-1891) and his wife Anna Helene Goebel, née. Wendt, born on June 21, 1869 in Kehdingbruch. He grew up with his grandfather Johann Andrea Wendt (1801-1880), pastor and superintendent, in Zeven and attended the boarding school of Schulpforta near Naumburg , where in 1887 he passed the high school diploma. Goebel then studied philosophy, German, Latin and Romance languages ​​at the universities of Berlin, Munich, Geneva and Marburg. At the University of Marburg he received his doctorate in philosophy with his scientific work "Investigations into the ancient Provencal trophism legend". From 1897 to 1901 he was a teacher for German, history and ancient languages ​​at the Ratsgymnasium in Hanover. From 1900 to 1924 he taught Latin, French and history as a senior teacher at the Sophienschule in Hanover, founded in 1897 and which had set up high school courses for girls since 1900.

From then Crown Prince of Hanover Ernst August (II.) Of Hanover , Duke of Cumberland, (1845-1923) he was appointed librarian of the former royal library (Fideikommissbibliothek) of the Guelphs in Hanover and Marienburg Castle ( Nordstemmen ). He held this office until his death in 1927.

Goebel developed a multifaceted literary activity that dealt in particular with the history of the Guelphs and the history of Lower Saxony's homeland and language. He was friends with the painters Rudolf Hermanns (1860-1935) and Otto Rauth (1862-1925) and the local researchers Hans Müller-Brauel (1867-1940) and Friedrich Tewes (1898-1931). He published numerous articles in the magazines ' Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter ' and ' Hannoverland '. In 1912 he was awarded the title of professor. Goebel was married to Agnes Goebel, b. Bock (1870–1954), who opened a private school for foreign languages ​​in Hanover after leaving school. The marriage resulted in three children, of whom Elisabeth Goebel (1908–1998) and her husband Diedrich Murken (1893–1958) founded a private gynecological clinic in Gütersloh in 1946.

Publications

• Fritz Goebel: Investigations into the ancient Provencal trophism legend . In: Editions and treatises from the field of Romance philology. Edmund Stengel. Marburg 1896. Reprint: Bern 2013.
• Count Carl von Alten . In: The Heidger. A Dutch calendar book for the year 1906 of Christ. Edited by Hans Müller-Brauel. Hanover 1905, pp. 35-36.
• Adolph Friedrich, Duke of Cambridge . Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter 8 (1905), issue 7–9. Special edition.
• Rudolf Hermanns. With a biography of the artist . In: Westermanns Monatshefte 124 (1918), Part 2, Issue 723, pp. 417-428.

literature

• Bernhard Koerner (Ed.): Johann Friedrich (Fritz) Goebel . In: Genealogical handbook of bourgeois families, a German gender book. Görlitz 1908, Volume 14, p. 127.
• Axel Hinrich Murken : Johann Friedrich (Fritz) Goebel (1869–1927). Historian, Germanist, Romanist and librarian of the Guelphs. Hanover history sheets. New episode 69 (2015), pp. 121–130.