Heinrich Kuehne
Heinrich Kühne (born November 9, 1910 in Wittenberg ; † May 15, 2003 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg ) was a local historian and homeland researcher of Lutherstadt and the Wittenberg district.
Live and act
Kühne's family had lived in Wittenberg for several generations. As a schoolboy, he brought letters to the “Wittenberger Tageblatt” for his teacher Richard Erfurth , who researched and published intensively on regional history. At the age of twelve he began collecting articles from newspapers about his homeland. He learned and worked for the magistrate in Kemberg , later he sold insurance for the provincial fire society. He came back seriously ill from the Second World War.
In 1956 Kühne became director of the Melanchthon House . He completed a distance learning course in history, cultural history and museology and set up the city history museum in Wittenberg Castle , which today is the city history center.
After his retirement, Kühne devoted himself specifically to researching the signets of the Wittenberg printers and publishers during the Reformation , and he was also a member of the International Working Group of Paper Historians. On June 30, 1999, Kühne gave his extensive local history documents on permanent loan to the Lutherstadt Wittenberg city church archive.
Heinrich Kühne worked on books and lectures until his death at the age of 92.
Honors
In 1975 Heinrich Kühne was awarded the Lucas Cranach Prize of the City Council of Wittenberg. In 2000 he signed the Golden Book of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. He was an honorary member of the Wilhelm Weber Society. V. and the Heimatverein Lutherstadt Wittenberg und Umgebung e. V.
Works
- Lutherstadt Wittenberg , several editions 1967–1993
- Lucas Cranach the Elder in Wittenberg , 1972 and 1993
- Wittenberg printer's signets , 1983
- Stories about Wittenberg from old and new times , 1988
- Lutherstadt Wittenberg on historical postcards , 1996
- The Ascanians : from the history of the Saxon-Ascanian dukes and electors of Saxony-Wittenberg (1180–1422) , 1999
- Purring and swaying from old Wittenberg , 1998 and 1999
- Heinrich Kühne tells Wittenberg stories , 2000
In addition, Kühne published a large number of brochures, newspaper articles and articles that appeared at home and abroad, for example in Sweden, Poland, Holland and Switzerland.
literature
- Obituary in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung on May 22, 2003 by Karina Blüthgen
- 2004 home calendar of Lutherstadt Wittenberg and the district of Wittenberg
- Peer Pasternack (Ed.): Traces of knowledge: Education and science in Wittenberg after 1945 . Wittenberg, 2004. ISBN 3-933028-85-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Kühne in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kühne, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wittenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 2003 |
| Place of death | Lutherstadt Wittenberg |