Herbert Derwein

Herbert Derwein , until 1926 Herbert Levin , (born April 6, 1893 in Braunschweig , † January 13, 1961 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian and city ​​archivist for the city of Heidelberg.

Life

Herbert Levin lost his hearing when he was 14 years old as a result of scarlet fever . He studied at the universities of Leipzig, Göttingen and Gießen, where he received his doctorate in 1916. phil. received his doctorate. Due to an invitation to tender from the Suevia Heidelberg Foundation of the University of Heidelberg, which called for a competition on Romanticism in Heidelberg in 1917, he moved to Heidelberg and won the competition with his book Die Heidelberger Romantik (1922). Levin, who changed his family name to Derwein in 1926 , initially earned his living as a bank clerk and published on topics from Baden's regional and local history. He worked semi-officially for the Palatinate Museum . In 1939 he became head of the Baden field names committee. From 1941 to 1958 Derwein was the city archivist in Heidelberg.

In 1919 he married the actress and author Irma von Drygalski (1892-1953), with whom he had three children. In his second marriage he married Gertrud Bergmann as a widower .

Fonts

• The Heidelberg romanticism. Munich 1922.
• The Cistercian monastery Schönau. With the drawings of the 16th century from the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. Franzmathes, Frankfurt 1931. Online publication by the Heidelberg University Library
• Handschuhsheim and its history. Heidelberg 1933.
• The field names of Heidelberg. Heidelberg 1940.
• Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Johanna Kapp. Meeting in Heidelberg , Hoffmann von Fallersleben Society, Fallersleben 1956.
• Heidelberg in the pre-March period and in the revolution of 1848/49. 1958.
• with Heinrich Hoffmann: The buildings of the Heiligenberg near Heidelberg. Restored in pen drawings by the painter Heinrich Hoffmann. With an introductory text by Herbert Derwein. Heidelberg undated

literature

• Rudolf Benl: Herbert Derwein. In: Baden-Württemberg biographies. Part 1.
• Meinrad Schaab: Obituary: Herbert Derwein. In: ZGO 108 (1960), Karlsruhe 1961, p. 635.

Supplementary secondary literature

• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . (Ed.): Rectorate of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität-Heidelberg. Springer Berlin Heidelberg Tokyo. 2012. 324 pp. ISBN 978-3642707612

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Derwein in the catalog of the German National Library