Henri-Camille Wampach

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Henri-Camille Wampach (born August 18, 1884 in Esch-sur-Alzette , † August 7, 1958 in Luxembourg ) was a Luxembourg archivist and historian as well as an honorary professor of the philosophy faculty at the University of Bonn .

Life

Henri-Camille Wampach was born as the son and third child of the teacher Johann Baptist Wampach and his wife Elisabeth Hoffmann. The family moved to Dudelange as a child because of the father's professional position as a primary school teacher . Wampach attended elementary school and the Athenaeum in Luxembourg. After completing his school education, he studied theology at the seminary in Luxembourg. On July 25, 1908 he was ordained a priest and then for a short time worked as a coadjutor in the Konvikten in Echternach and Luxembourg. This was followed by studies of history and diplomacy at the Humboldt University in Berlin with Hans Delbrück , Max Lenz , Dietrich Schäfer and Michael Tangl . During his studies he worked as a chaplain in Silesia and also as a teacher.

He received his doctorate in 1915 at the Berlin University on the "History of the Echternach Manorial". He commented on the Liber aureus Epternacensis for the first time . In 1921 Wampach got a job at a rural parish in Hamm (Luxembourg) . On September 30, 1930, he was given a leave of absence without a salary at his request. Wampach had submitted this application in order to be able to devote himself scientifically to his dissertation topic. In 1929 and 1930 he brought out a text and a source volume on the subject of the "History of the Echternach Manorial in the Early Middle Ages". In the winter semester of 1931/1932, he was appointed lecturer at the University of Bonn for Luxembourg and Western European history. On August 6, 1935, he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Bonn. Between 1935 and 1940 the first four volumes of Wampach's "Document and source books on the history of the old Luxembourg territories" appeared.

Wampach turned against the occupation of Luxembourg in World War II and the efforts to incorporate Luxembourg into the Greater German Empire . In 1941, for these reasons, he refused to accept an award from the Görres Society . Because he was not politically reliable from the perspective of National Socialism , his position at Bonn University was withdrawn from him in the winter semester of 1941/42 and his title of professor was revoked. He had to forego the grants for studies and educational trips that had been granted to him by the Luxembourg state since 1935. As a result, he lived in the Echternach community hospice on a salary of 140 Reichsmarks a month as an assistant chaplain. In the following time he dealt with the abundant collection of documents of the monastery.

After the war in Luxembourg ended, he applied for the position of archive director in Luxembourg in February 1945. This application failed in April 1945 due to resistance from the Epuration Ministry, which was responsible for the elimination of collaborators from the public service. He was accused of continuing friendly contacts with German historians. However, on April 27, 1945, Wampach was entrusted with the supervision of the Luxembourg government archives and was given the task of sifting through the documents there. In 1946 he was reappointed honorary professor at the University of Bonn, but he barely fulfilled his teaching duties and from then on dealt almost exclusively with source research. Further volumes of his "document and source books on the history of the old Luxembourg territories" were published until 1955. The last volumes for the period from 1313 to 1400 were ready for printing at the time of his death, but were no longer published; the manuscripts are stored in the National Archives in Luxembourg.

Honors

In 1958, Wampach was appointed Dome of Honor of the Metropolitan Church of Utrecht and papal secret chamberlain . He was appointed a knight, officer and commander in the Order of the Crown of Oak Leaves of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg . The Officer's Cross of him was the Belgian king Kronordens awarded and the seventieth birthday of the head of the cultural department of the handed him the Foreign Office , the Federal Cross of Merit from. Volume 19 of the Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter was dedicated to him in 1954 as a commemorative publication on his 70th birthday. In 1958 he was also awarded the seal of honor of the city of Trier.

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  1. ↑ honor seal of the city of Trier
personal data
SURNAME Wampach, Henri-Camille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wampach, Camille; Wampach, Camillus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Esch-sur-Alzette , Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 1958
Place of death Luxembourg City