Heinrich Behrens (numismatist)

Heinrich Behrens (left) with his brother Jakob Behrens (around 1845)

Heinrich Behrens (born September 28, 1828 , † February 20, 1913 in Lübeck ) was a German businessman and numismatist . The coin catalog he wrote is still the standard work in Lübeck's coin history .

Life

Heinrich Behrens was the son of the Lübeck businessman and senator Jacob Behrens . Little of his biography has survived. He acquired Lübeck citizenship on May 10, 1853. Like his father, he was a businessman and had his business at Königstrasse 3 in Lübeck. Later, at least from 1905, he lived under the name "Privatmann" at Moislinger Allee 43. Building on Johann Hermann Schnobel's catalog from 1790, Behrens published "Coins and Medals of the City and the Diocese of Lübeck" in 1905. An addendum appeared in 1908. At that time Behrens was living in Lübeck, Geibelplatz (today Koberg ) 20. The work is structured as a catalog with historical background information and is still used today by numismatists who deal with Lübeck coins . It is also being traded as a digital reprint dating from 2008 (including the 1908 supplement).

Behrens' work is based on Johann Hermann Schnobel's book "Lübeckisches Münz- und Medaillenkabinett" from 1790, which was based on the collection of the businessman Ludolph Heinrich Müller (1720–1788), which he bequeathed to the Lübeck library . Behrens added from the collection of the businessman Alexander Roeper (1862–1922). The remains of the Roeper Collection are now also in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

The German-American businessman Jakob Behrens was his brother.

Fonts

• Coins and medals of the city and the diocese of Lübeck. Verlag der Berliner Münzblätter, Berlin 1905, (Unchanged reprint. Bogon, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-936059-30-4 )

Digitized version (with handwritten additions).

See also

• Diocese of Lübeck

literature

• Johann Hermann Schnobel (Ed.): Lübeckisches Münz- und Medaillenkabinet collected by Ludolph Heinrich Müller with explanatory notes and a preceding coin history. Ch. G. Donatius, Lübeck 1790, ( digitized version ).
• Dieter Dummler: Seven Hundred Years of Money in Lübeck. The coin history of the imperial and Hanseatic city of Lübeck as reflected in the coin collection of the archive of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck (1114–1819) (= small booklets on city history. Booklet 24). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7950-3123-7 .
• Dieter Dummler: The coin collection of the imperial and Hanseatic city of Lübeck. 1114–1819 (= relations of trade, money and politics from the early Middle Ages to the present day. Vol. 12). Edited by Rolf Hammel-Kiesow . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7950-4511-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank Berger, in a review of: Dieter Dummler: The coin collection of the imperial and Hanseatic city of Lübeck. 1114–1819 (= relations of trade, money and politics from the early Middle Ages to the present day. Vol. 12). 2012. In: Geldgeschichtliche Nachrichten . Volume 48, No. 265, January 2013, page 53 f.
2. ^ Emil F. Fehling : On the Lübeckische Ratslinie 1814-1914 (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. 4, 1, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Max Schmidt, Lübeck 1915, No. 40.
3. ↑ Dieter Dummler: Seven Hundred Years of Money in Lübeck. Lübeck 2015, page 7.
4. ^ Behrens: Coins and medals of the city and the diocese of Lübeck. Berlin 1905, page 273.
5. ↑ ISBN 978-3-936059-30-4
6. ^ Behrens: Coins and medals of the city and the diocese of Lübeck. Berlin 1905, page 4. The collection was relocated during World War II and was largely lost; the remnants of the collection are now in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .
7. ^ Behrens: Coins and medals of the city and the diocese of Lübeck. Berlin 1905, page 5.
8. ↑ Dieter Dummler: The coin collection of the imperial and Hanseatic city of Lübeck. 1114–1819 (= relations of trade, money and politics from the early Middle Ages to the present day. Vol. 12). Lübeck 2012, page 9.