Heribert Reiners

Heribert Reiners (born on August 23, 1884 in Lobberich ; died on June 4, 1960 in Ludwigshafen on Lake Constance ) was a German art historian and professor at the universities of Bonn and Freiburg in Üechtland .

Life

The son of the portrait painter Jacob Reiners and his wife Theodora Reiners, née Aldenhoven, Catholic Heribert Reiners, who was born in the Rhineland, began studying after attending the Paulinisches Gymnasium in Münster , which he left with the receipt of his secondary school leaving certificate on March 11, 1903 of art history . First he stayed at the University of Marburg in the summer semester of 1903 , then moved to Bonn (winter semester 1903 and summer semester 1904) and finally to Berlin for the winter semester 1905 and the summer semester 1906 , before he returned to Bonn for the summer semester 1907. He interrupted his studies in art history by studying Catholic theology for two semesters in the winter semester of 1904 and the summer semester of 1905, also in Bonn. After the oral doctoral examination of 3 June 1908, he was on 17 February 1909, the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn with the work of the Rhenish choir stalls of the early Gothic to Dr. phil. PhD . Paul Clemen emerged as his doctoral supervisor.

Reiners completed his habilitation in Bonn in 1912. During the First World War, he and Dr. Wilhelm Ewald , art protection officer at Army High Command 5 and documented churches and castles from the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance periods in northern Lorraine. In 1922 he received an extraordinary professorship. In 1925 he moved from Bonn to the University of Friborg in Switzerland, after receiving an appointment as a full professor at the chair for art history, which he held until 1945, and from 1940 also for archeology .

With the end of the Second World War, the simultaneous end of the National Socialist era , Reiners was expelled for collaboration with the German National Socialists by resolution of the Swiss Federal Council . The decision was repealed in 1957 .

Inventory of monuments in the Rhine Province

From August 1, 1908 to October 1, 1909, Heribert Reiners worked for the Bonn-based Commission for Monument Statistics, which was commissioned by the Provincial Association of the Rhine Province under Paul Clemen to create the series of publications Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz . During this period he traveled to the Aachen district to record the works of art and monuments there. After leaving, he continued editing the volume, which appeared in print in 1912. In 1931 he finally took over from Karl Faymonville, who died in 1930, his as yet unpublished adaptation of the volume on the Malmedy district . After a complete revision of the district and, in parallel, the neighboring district of Eupen , which was first published in a partial volume by Faymonville in 1912 and in 1932 and 1933, the double volume Die Kunstdenkmäler von Eupen – Malmedy appeared after the First World War from Germany separated circles in 1935. Reiners also worked on other writings under the direction of Paul Clemen. This is the case with the first edition of the guide, Schloß Burg an der Wupper , published by Schwann in Düsseldorf in 1910 , for which he wrote the description of the picturesque decorations.

Fonts (selection)

Title pages of a thousand years of Rhenish art , Bonn 1925

• The Rhenish choir stalls from the early Gothic period. A chapter in the reception of the Gothic in Germany . Dissertation, University of Bonn dated February 17, 1909, Universitäts-Buchdruckerei JH Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), Strasbourg 1909.
• The Rhenish choir stalls from the early Gothic period. A chapter in the reception of the Gothic in Germany . (= Studies on German Art History , 113th issue) JH Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), Strasbourg 1909, 90 pages plus 29 plates.
• The art monuments of the Aachen district. (= Paul Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz. Ninth Volume II.) L. Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1912 (reprint of Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-590-32111-3 ).
• The art in the Rhineland. Cooling, Mönchengladbach 1921.
• Art monuments between Maas and Moselle , with Wilhelm Ewald , on behalf of Army High Command 5, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1919
• Picturesque old Friborg Switzerland. Dr. B. Filser, Augsburg 1930
• A thousand years of Rhenish art. Verlag der Buchgemeinde, Bonn 1925 (3rd edition 1938).
• with the collaboration of Heinrich Neu : Die Kunstdenkmäler von Eupen – Malmedy. L. Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1935 (reprint of Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-590-32117-2 ).
• The Minster of Our Lady of Constance. (= The Art Monuments of South Baden , Volume 1), Thorbecke, Konstanz 1955.

literature

• Reiners, Heribert. In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender 1961. 9th Edition, Volume II, O – Z and Register, Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1961, p. 1630.

Web links

• Marianne Rolle: Reiners, Heribert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Reiners, Heribert. In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender 1961. 9th Edition, Volume II, O – Z and Register, Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1961, p. 1630.
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Rhenish choir stalls of the early Gothic. A chapter in the reception of the Gothic in Germany . Dissertation, University of Bonn dated February 17, 1909, Universitäts-Buchdruckerei JH Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), Strasbourg 1909, curriculum vitae.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Marianne Rolle: Reiners, Heribert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
4. ↑ The art monuments of the district of Aachen. (= Paul Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz. Ninth Volume II.) L. Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1912 (Reprinted by Pedagogical Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-590-32111-3 ), p.
5. ↑ Heribert Reiners with the collaboration of Heinrich Neu : Die Kunstdenkmäler von Eupen – Malmedy. L. Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1935 (reprint Pedagogical Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-590-32117-2 ), p.
6. ↑ Second edition 1912. Ed. Schlossbauverein.