Heinrich Averdunk

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Heinrich Averdunk (born July 12, 1840 in Neukirchen bei Moers , † January 4, 1927 in Duisburg ) was a German teacher, historian and city councilor in Duisburg.

Life

During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity in 1860 .

Averdunk was a teacher at the Duisburg grammar school (today's Landfermann grammar school ), from 1872 a senior teacher and from 1881 a grammar school professor there. From 1896 he was chairman of the commission for the collection of antiquities . From the opening of the Heimatmuseum in the town hall in 1902 he was director of this museum until 1919.

Averdunk was Duisburg city councilor from 1872 to 1878. On his 80th birthday on July 12, 1920, the Faculty of Arts awarded him Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn , the honorary doctorate .

His most important publications include the history of the city of Duisburg (1894/95), The Duisburger Börtschiffahrt (1905) and the history of the Duisburg grammar school (1909).

reception

The local history museum that he formerly directed (today incorporated into the Museum of Culture and City History ) was named Averdunkmuseum after his death .

Averdunkstrasse, Averdunkplatz and Averdunk Centrum are named after him, the first shopping center in Duisburg's city center built in the early 1980s .

Works

  • Duisburg at the time of the Jülich-Clever succession dispute . Rieten, Duisburg 1882–1885 (3 volumes)
  • Old directory of the mayors of Duisburg up to 1614 and the two oldest city accounts . Ewich, Duisburg, 1886
  • History of the city of Duisburg up to the final unification with the Hohenzollern family (1666). With an old city map. Ewich, Duisburg 1894 ( digitized version )
  • Guide through the Duisburg antiquity collection . Ewich, Duisburg 1902. ( digitized version )
  • On the history of Duisburg, especially the Burgplatz and town hall . In: Festschrift for the inauguration of the new town hall building of the city of Duisburg am Rhein on May 3, 1902 . Steinkamp, ​​Duisburg May 3, 1902, p. 7 to 30 ( digitized version, PW Metzler Verlag, Duisburg 2017).
  • The Duisburger Börtschiffahrt, at the same time a contribution to the history of the trade in Duisburg and the trade on the Lower Rhine . Ewich, Duisburg 1905 ( digitized version )
  • Duisburg and the Lower Rhine during the French period . Museum Association, Duisburg 1907
    • 1. 1792 - 1795. 1907 ( digitized )
    • 2. The transition d. French over d. Rhine am Eikelkamp, ​​near Ürdingen u. near Düsseldorf on the 5th a. September 6, 1795. 1916 ( digitized version )
  • History of the Duisburg grammar school up to the establishment of the Kgl. Kompatronats 1303-1822 and list of high school graduates dismissed since 1824 . Ewich, Duisburg 1909
  • History of the Wintgens family from Wintgenshof zu Duissern near Duisburg . Steinkamp, ​​Duisburg 1909 ( digitized version )
  • The field names and other place names in Duisburg following the field maps of Duisburg, Meiderich, Ruhrort and Beeck from the years 1727-1735 . Museum Association, Duisburg 1911
  • The descendants of the geographer Gerhard Mercator . Museum Association, Duisburg 1913 ( digitized version )
  • (with Josef Müller-Reinhard) Gerhard Mercator and the geographers among his descendants . Perthes, Gotha 1914
  • (with Walter Ring) History of the city of Duisburg . Baedeker, Essen 1927

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 267.
personal data
SURNAME Averdunk, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, historian and city councilor
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Neukirchen near Moers
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1927
Place of death Duisburg