Heinrich Julius Böthführ

Heinrich Julius Böthführ (born December 9 ^{. Jul} / 21st December  1811 ^greg. In Riga , † May 5 ^jul. / 17th May  1888 ^greg. Ibid.) Was a Baltic historian and jurist .

Life

family

Heinrich Julius was a son of the merchant Johann Heinrich Böthführ and Anna Margaretha, born. Schrader. He married Amalie Marie Zwenger.

Career

After attending the governorate high school in Riga, he studied law in Dorpat until 1839 . His home town of Riga was his entire living, working and developing space. As early as 1837 he was an auscultant of the Riga council. From 1840 to 1845 he worked in the administrations of the churches and foundations and from 1845 to 1846 as a notary for the city ​​consistory and from 1846 to 1848 as a notary for the bailiff. In 1848 he was secretary of the city consistory and assistant to the senior secretary of the council. He was from 1849 to 1867 councilor . Further professional positions and activities were in 1850 inspector of the city library, 1852 president of the beverage tax court and inspector of the city excise and beverage tax administration, 1853 president of the competition court, 1857 member of the commission for the removal of the fortifications, 1857 president of the commission for the construction of a gas and Waterworks. From 1870 he was president of gas and waterworks, from 1860 to 1882 inspector of the cathedral church and finally from 1867 to 1882 mayor, and at the same time president of the provincial court and the directorate of the poor. In 1869 he was vice-president of the council and since 1872 syndic and inspector of the city archives.

Böthführ was a member from 1843 with interruption from 1853 to 1857, from 1870 to 1885 co-director and 1885 to 1888 president of the Society for the History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia and since 1888 honorary member of the Estonian learned society in Dorpat.

Works

In addition to numerous treatises on communal politics and the collaboration on the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , he wrote two main works:

• The Rigische Rathslinie from 1226 to 1876: In addition to an appendix: Directory of the senior men, elders and dockers of the Great Guild in Riga from 1844 to 1876 . J. Deubner, Riga, Moscow and Odessa 1877 → ( digitized on Internet Archive )
• The Livonians at universities abroad in past centuries. Festschrift of the Society for the History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces of Russia to celebrate its 50th anniversary on December 6th, 1884 . Wilhelm Ferdinand Häcker, Riga 1884 → ( digitized version in the University and State Library Düsseldorf )

literature

• Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1889, p. 226, no.3148

Web links

• Heinrich Julius Böthführ on wikisource
• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Heinrich Julius Böthführ. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

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