Heinrich Jacobi (archaeologist)

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Sandstone tablet for Heinrich Jacobi in the Saalburg Museum
Grave of Heinrich Jacobi

Heinrich Christian Jacobi (born July 2, 1866 in Homburg before the height ; † March 3, 1946 ibid) was a German architect and Roman provincial archaeologist .

Life

Heinrich Christian Jacobi was born as the son of the Roman provincial archaeologist Louis Jacobi and his wife Henriette. Will was born in Homburg vor der Höhe. From 1886 to 1891 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . During his student days he joined the later fraternity of Landsmannschaft Normannia . From 1895 to 1896 he directed the excavations in Adamklissi ( Romania ) on behalf of Grigore Tocilescu and traveled to North Africa for Roman excavations . He later worked as a government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer ) in Marburgactive, where he was appointed government architect ( assessor ) in 1896 . In 1899 he worked on behalf of the Prussian government at the Saalburg in Homburg before the height. There he was appointed royal building officer and state building inspector in 1911 and in 1912 - as his father's successor - director of the Saalburg Museum.

His first marriage was to Henriette Louise. The marriage remained childless but they adopted a girl, Hildegard called Hilde. After the death of his first wife in 1925, he married Henriette Louise Johanna Trapp, the granddaughter of Eduard Christian Trapp , in 1926 .

During the First World War , he accepted from the autumn of 1914 as a captain of the Landwehr in the replacement battalion of Fusilier Regiment No. 80 in Wiesbaden . In early 1915 he was appointed battalion leader in Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 83 in Homburg. After the war he worked again as director of the Saalburg Museum in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. Around 1926 he received an honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing. E. H.). After reaching the age limit, he initially remained in office until 1936 and took over the management of the museum again from 1945 to 1946 after the end of the Second World War .

Castle Saalburg / Kirdorf

Together with his father Louis Jacobi , he was instrumental in the reconstruction of the Saalburg fort .

The evangelical memorial church he planned on Weberstrasse in Bad Homburg-Kirdorf was inaugurated on August 18, 1913.

Awards

Fonts

  • The earth fort of the Saalburg. Reprint from the Saalburg yearbook. Report of the Saalburg Museum VI. 1914/1924. Frankfurt 1924.
  • Guide through the Roman fort Saalburg and Homburg vor der Höhe. Schudt, Homburg 1905. 7th edition 1913.
  • Small guide through the Saalburg and its collections. Taunusbote, Bad Homburg 1918.
  • Guide through the Saalburg and its collections. Taunusbote, Bad Homburg 1921. 27th edition 1927.
  • The Saalburg: guide through the fort and its collections. Taunusbote, Bad Homburg 1929. 13th edition 1936.
  • The Homburg Railway and its predecessors. Reprint of the Taunusboten, Bad Homburg 1938.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Goldschmidt: On the history of the Landsmannschaft Normannia in Berlin 1842-1902. Berlin 1902.
  2. ^ Egon Schallmayer: One hundred years of Saalburg. Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-80532350-6 , p. 32.
  3. ↑ Simone Dittmar: A man who always stood in the shadow of his father; in: Taunus-Zeitung of April 19, 2016, p. 10
  4. ^ War report I of the Landsmannschaft Normannia Berlin. Berlin 1914
  5. ↑ a b c War report II of the Landsmannschaft Normannia Berlin. Berlin, April 1915
  6. ↑ Kirdorf story
  7. ^ War report V of the Landsmannschaft Normannia Berlin. Berlin, October 1916
  8. ^ War report VI of the Landsmannschaft Normannia Berlin. Berlin, June 1917
  9. ↑ a b War Report VII of the Landsmannschaft Normannia Berlin. Berlin, July 1918
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobi, Heinrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Homburg vor der Höhe
DATE OF DEATH March 1946
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe