Heinrich Buchenau

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Heinrich Buchenau (born April 20, 1862 in Bremen , † May 15, 1931 in Munich ) was a German numismatist .

Life

Heinrich Buchenau was the eldest son of the Bremen botanist and educator Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau and his wife Margarethe Auguste nee. Adami († 1905). He studied philology and history at the universities of Leipzig, Jena and Strasbourg, where he received his doctorate in 1887. After graduating, he first went to school and taught geography and history at the Sophienstift in Weimar . During this time he began to work on a part-time basis in the field of numismatics of the Middle Ages , which led to numerous publications in the numismatic field. From 1908 to 1927 he was curator at the State Coin Collection in Munich and organized its medieval holdings according to scientific principles. Since 1916 he has been an honorary professor for medieval numismatics and monetary history at the University of Munich .

Heinrich Buchenau was editor of the Blätter für Münzfreunde from 1899 to 1928 , in which he published many of his essays. His written estate is in the State Coin Collection in Munich . His coin collection was auctioned off near Helbing in Munich in 1931.

The publisher and book designer Siegfried Buchenau was his son. The merchant and art collector Siegfried Buchenau was a brother of Heinrich.

Fonts (selection)

  • About the use and position of the adjective in Wolframs Parzival . Köthen 1887 (= dissertation).
  • The bracteate find from Niederkaufungen near Cassel. A contribution to the history of medieval coinage, especially the areas of Hesse, Thuringia, Waldeck and the Archbishops of Mainz . Dresden 1903.
  • Der Bremer Fund , in: Zeitschrift für Numismatik 19 (1895) 1-52 ( digitized version ).
  • Plan of the coinage . 1920.
  • The Marburg bracteate find . Halle / Saale 1924.

literature

  • Behrendt Pick (Ed.): Heinrich Buchenau on April 20, 1922, 60 years old . Weizinger, Munich 1922.
  • Julius Cahn : Heinrich Buchenau † . In: Frankfurter Münzzeitung NF 2, 1931, pp. 289–290.
  • Buchenau, Heinrich in: Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia . de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, p. 250.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on the father in Who is it? 2 (1906) p. 156.
  2. ^ Estate of Professor Dr. H. Buchenau and from other possessions, coins from the Middle Ages, coins and medals from many times and countries, numismatic library. Auction December 10, 1931 , Otto Helbing Nachf., Munich 1931 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Buchenau, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1931
Place of death Munich