Hans Philippi

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Hans Philippi (born November 22, 1916 in Mainz , † April 27, 2010 in Laubach ) was a German historian and archivist . From 1973 to 1981 he was director of the Marburg State Archives and the Marburg Archive School .

Life

Philippi passed the Abitur at the grammar school in Grünberg in 1936 and then studied law, history, legal history and modern philology in Marburg , Vienna and Munich . During his studies he became a member of the AMV Fridericiana Marburg . In 1951 he received his doctorate in Marburg with a thesis on the county of Büdingen . As an archive trainee, he attended the Marburg Archive School, which had been founded a few years earlier, from 1952 to 1954 , where he passed the career test for the higher archive service as a participant in the third academic course.

From 1954 Philippi worked at the Political Archives of the Foreign Office . In 1964 Philippi returned to the State Archives in Marburg, where he took over management in 1973. The management of the Marburg Archive School was also connected to this position. He held both functions until he retired in 1981.

Hans Philippi died in Laubach in 2010 at the age of 93.

Publications (selection)

memoirs

  • The chronicle of my life. Memories , 2 volumes, Darmstadt, Marburg 2002–2005.

Studies

  • Territorial history of the county of Büdingen. Dissertation Marburg 1951, printed 1954.
  • Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel - a German prince of the Baroque period. Marburg 1976.
  • The House of Hesse. A European princely family. Thiele and Schwarz, Kassel 1983.
  • The Wettins in Saxony and Thuringia. Limburg 1989.
  • The Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel from 1648–1806. Hans Philippi on his 90th birthday, Marburg 2007.

Editing

  • Repertories from the Hessian State Archives in Marburg. 1964 ff.

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 95.
personal data
SURNAME Philippi, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2010
Place of death Laubach