Hermann Knothe

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Hermann Friedrich Knothe (born October 9, 1821 in Hirschfelde , † February 8, 1903 in Dresden ) was a German historian. He was the most important and productive regional historian of Upper Lusatia and researched the history of Upper Lusatia for around 60 years; He published his results in around 145 individual papers, including half a dozen larger monographs.

Life

Hermann Knothe came from a pastor's family; his father Karl Friedrich Knothe (1793–1855) had become a deacon in Hirschfelde in 1820. He attended the Zittau grammar school from 1832 to 1840 and then studied theology in Leipzig until 1843 at the request of his father . He was a sub-senior at the Lausitzer Preacher Society and remained an honorary member. He then worked as a private tutor in Dresden until he was appointed to the Zittau grammar school in 1855. In 1851 he published his first historical work on the history of his hometown Hirschfelde.

In 1861 he was appointed professor at the royal cadet corps in Dresden. This gave him access to important libraries and the Saxon State Archives , which significantly boosted his historical research. For decades Knothe was the most important author of the New Lusatian Magazine (NLM). The Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences made him an honorary member in 1887. In 1897 he was appointed a member of the Royal Saxon Historical Commission. In his historical work, Knothe dealt almost exclusively with the history of Upper Lusatia from the Middle Ages to the Peace of Prague of 1635 . The focus of research was legal and constitutional history as well as the history of the nobility. Knothes work is impressive because of the abundance of sources he used, which has not been reached in this way in Upper Lusatia until today. Knothe died in Dresden in 1903 and was buried in the Old Annenfriedhof .

In honor of Hermann Knothe, the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences has awarded the Hermann Knothe Prize for academic achievements in the field of research on Upper Lusatian topics since 2007.

Works (selection)

  • History of the Hirschfelde area in the royal Saxon region of Upper Lusatia . Dresden 1851. [Reprint: Ostritz 2003].
  • History of the villages of Rohnau , Rosenthal and Scharre , near Hirschfelde in the Königigl. Saxon Upper Lusatia . Zittau 1857. [Reprint: Ostritz 2003] . ( Digitized original edition ).
  • History of the villages Burkersdorf and Schlegel in the royal Saxon Upper Lusatia . Zittau 1862. [Reprint: Ostritz 2003]. ( Digitized original edition ).
  • History of the castle and the village of Kirschau, south of Budissin . In: Lausitzisches Magazin. On behalf of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences . Volume 47, Görlitz 1870, pp. 293-295.
  • Documented history of the Virgin Monastery of Marienstern , Cistercian order, in the Kgl. Saxon. Upper Lusatia, from the time it was founded until the beginning of the 16th century . Dresden 1871.
  • Documentary basis for a legal history of Upper Lusatia from the earliest times to the middle of the 16th century . Görlitz 1877. In: New Lusatian Magazine . 53, 1877. pp. 158-421. SLUB Dresden
  • History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and its goods from the XIII. until the end of the XVI. Century . Leipzig 1879 ( digitized version ) ( e-copy ).
  • Document book of the cities of Kamenz and Löbau . (= Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae 2,7). Leipzig 1883.
  • The position of the estate subjects in Upper Lusatia in relation to their lords . In: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin ( NLM ) 61 (1885), pp. 159–280.

Literature and Biographies

  • Matthias Herrmann (Ed.): Upper Lusatia. Contributions to the national history. Scientific symposium on the 100th anniversary of Hermann Knothe's death (= Kamenzer Contributions 5). Görlitz 2004, ISBN 3-932693-94-9 - contains a complete bibliography of Knothes works, pp. 202–208.
  • Woldemar Lippert : Hermann Knothe and its significance for Upper Lusatian historical research. In: German history sheets. 4th year 1903, pp. 150–159 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Knothe  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 2, 1903, p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Knothe, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knothe, Hermann Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschfelde
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1903
Place of death Dresden