Heinrich Boettger

Heinrich Böttger (born October 2, 1801 in Förste am Harz , † August 29, 1891 in Cannstatt ) was a German theologian , historian , archivist and librarian .

Life

After studying theology with a doctorate in Göttingen , Böttger was secretary to the Lüneburg landscape director Wilhelm von Hodenberg from 1842 , and he was in charge of his historical collections.

Since 1850 scientific "auxiliary worker" at the Royal Archives (today: Main State Archives Hanover ) in Hanover , in 1851 he became second secretary at the Royal Library (today: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library ) in Hanover. He has worked in the Münzkabinett since 1866 and was promoted to the library council in 1869. He retired in 1875.

As a librarian, Böttger continued to do archival work. He published several document books from the archives' holdings, worked on the Marienroder document book (1859), the document book of St. Michaelis in Lüneburg (1860-1870) and the Isenhagen document book (1870) (“despite certain uncertainties, this can be quite clear from the forewords of the corresponding document books and the communications of the historical association (...) ”, Ohainski et al., p. 1) as well as the author of a study on the Braunschweig-Lüneburg coat of arms (1861).

He then made a name for himself with investigations into the historical geography of Northern Germany: The two works “Diöcesan and Gau boundaries of Northern Germany between Oder, Main, beyond the Rhine, the North and Baltic Seas, ascertained striding from place to place” (4 vols., Halle 1874–1876) and “Residence of the Germans in the country described by Tacitus in his Germania. From the original sources of Julius Caesar, Strabo, Vellejus, Tacitus, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, Pomponius Mela, Suetonius, Florus, Dio Cassius and others. A. proven on the basis of its diocesan and Gau borders of Northern Germany ”(Stuttgart 1877), however, did not remain undisputed in historical research. Since 1880 he was a member of the Stuttgart Freemason Lodge to the three cedars .

Finally he emerged as the author of a family table of the Welfen (Hanover around 1865, new edition Hanover 2004), which was made known to a wider public through a reprint in 2004.

Works (selection)

• Contributions to the historically critical introduction to the Pauline Letters. Dept. 1 - 5 and supplement. Göttingen 1837–1838.
• Baur's historical criticism in its consistency. A contribution to the religious history of the first centuries of our era. Dept. 1–3. Braunschweig 1840–1841.
• The consolation that Jesus' ascension offers us at the death of our beloved. Funeral sermon on the Gospel of Luke 24, 50-53 delivered ... By Dr. Heinrich Böttger, royal hannov. Librarian Council. Stuttgart 1847.
• Family table of the ruling princes from the House of Welf and their ancestors. Edited by F. Klindworth. Hanover 1858.
• The gradual emergence of the current Guelph lands: the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braunschweig. To explain the genealogical table of the ruling princes from the Welfenhaus and their ancestors. Hanover 1858. (2nd edition 1859).
• The introduction of Christianity in Saxony by the Frankish King Charles from 775 to 786, in particular to defend the authenticity of the same document on the enlargement of the Diocese of Bremen from July 14th, 788. Hanover 1859.
• The documents of the Marienrode monastery until 1400. From Wilhelm von Hodenberg. Hanover 1859. (Reprinted in Osnabrück 2007.)
• Document book of the St. Michaelis monastery in Lüneburg. Edited by Wilhelm von Hodenberg. H. 1-3. Celle, Hanover 1860-1870. (Lüneburg document book. Abth. 7).
• The Braunschweig-Lüneburg coat of arms. To celebrate the millennium of the city of Braunschweig in 1861. Hanover 1861.
• The Brunons, ancestors and descendants of Duke Ludolf in Saxony. From 775 to December 9, 1117, along with its forefathers in general from c. 450 on, from the existing, with printed sources, under assessment of the previous views, especially from Leibniz, historically, genealogically and mainly from their hereditary property. Hanover 1865.
• Document book of the monastery of Mother Maria zu Isenhagen. With the support of the Lüneburg landscape ed. from the committee of the historical association for Lower Saxony. H. 1-3. Celle, Hanover 1870. (Lüneburg document book. Abth. 5).
• Diöcesan and Gau borders of northern Germany between Oder, Main, beyond the Rhine, the North and Baltic Seas, ascertained from place to place. In addition to a Gau map and a Diocesan map establishing the same. Dept. 1–4 [together with] Gaukarte and a diocesan map on the same justifying the diocesan and gau borders of Northern Germany. Hall 1874–1876.
• Hermann the Cheruscan prince and liberator of Germany from the Roman yoke through the Varian defeat. With special regard to the march of Germanicus in the Teutoburg Mountains, the historians concerned proved to be a reliable guide through the area of ​​the battle to destroy the Roman army in the year 9 AD, which ended on the second day. Dept. 1-2. Hanover 1874.
• Residences of the Germans in the country described by Tacitus in his Germania: from the original sources of Julius Caesar, Strabo, Vellejus, Tacitus, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, Pomponius Mela, Suetonius, Florus, Dio Cassius and others. A. on the basis of its diocesan and Gau borders of northern Germany. In addition to a Gau map, a diocese map that justifies the same, and a peoples map drawn from it. Stuttgart 1877.
• History of the Brunon Guelphs. From the very beginning of the same in High Asia, the cradle of the human race, to Duke Heinrich the Lion. With a colored peoples map, the area of ​​the Germania of Tacitus, encompassing our great fatherland in three fifths of Germany. Hanover 1880.
• The teaching of reason and revelation about the last day resurrection. Sermon about the epistle in 1st letter Peter, chapter 1, verses 3-4. From Heinr. Böttger, royal hannov. Library Council .... - Stuttgart: A. Oetinger in Comm., 1880.
• Original Christianity from paganism and Judaism. Through Christ, the longed-for Messiah's teaching, life, work, death and resurrection developed and founded from the original sources .... Proven by Heinrich Boettger. Leipzig 1882.
• Sun cult of the Indo-Europeans (Indo-Europeans), especially the Indoteutons, drawn and proven from one hundred and twenty-five original Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Old Norse sources and two hundred and seventy-eight other sources. Wroclaw 1890.

Literature (selection)

• Wilhelm Rothert (Ed.): General Hannoversche Biographie. Vol. 1 . Hanover 1912, p. 332.
• Karl Bader: Lexicon of German librarians in full and part-time positions with princes, states and cities . Leipzig 1925, p. 23.
• Uwe Ohainski, Ernst Schubert, Gerhard Streich: Introduction to: family table of the Welfs . Edit according to the original sources. by Heinrich Böttger. Edited and introduced by Uwe Ohainski, Ernst Schubert and Gerhard Streich. Reprographic reprint of the edition Hannover, Klindworth, around 1865. Hannover 2004 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. 219), accompanying booklet, pp. 1–3. (In it also: pp. 4–5: The most important historical publications by Heinrich Böttger.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bauhütte. Organ for the General Interests of Freemasonry, Vol. 34, No. 39, September 26, 1891, p. 311.