Hermann Post
Hermann Post , also Hermann von Post, (born October 3, 1693 in Bremen ; † November 13, 1762 in Bremen) was a German lawyer and the first full-time Bremen state archivist .
biography
Post was the son of a wealthy merchant, whose ancestors had come to Bremen at the beginning of the 17th century. His father was the builder of the Liebfrauenkirche and administrator of the armory , his mother was the daughter of Mayor Johann Vagt . He completed a thorough education and from 1710 attended the illustrious grammar school . He then studied for five semesters Law at the University of Utrecht and went in 1716 to Erfurt to the Doctor iuris utriusque to graduate .
After obtaining his doctorate, he undertook an extensive journey lasting almost a year and a half - the first part of it in the company of his mentor and teacher Johann Jacob Mascov . Via Nuremberg and Regensburg he traveled to Vienna, then on to Venice, Rome, Naples, Florence, Siena, Genoa, Turin, Geneva and Paris, and finally via Brussels and The Hague back to Bremen, where he met Rebecca from 1718 shortly after his return Line, a daughter of Mayor Liborius von Line , with whom he had a total of twelve children. In 1719 the Post family was owned by Emperor Karl VI. raised to the hereditary nobility.
Collector and author
Post was keenly interested in the history of his hometown and had built up an important private collection of 600 copies of documents, files and chronicles over the years. He also wrote several important treatises on subjects of Bremen history, such as Brema literata (1726), a register of literarily known men of the city in continuation of the work of Henrich Iken ; Fasti consulares et senatorii (1726), a listing of all members of the Bremen council from 1433 to 1725; Inscriptiones liberae reipublicae Bremensis , a compilation of all the inscriptions on buildings, on tombstones, bells and guns of the city and Stemmata familiarum Bremensium , a work on the pedigrees of 300 old Bremen families. Furthermore, in continuation of the Chronica of the City of Bremen by Johann Renner, he wrote an outline of the history of Bremen up to 1754 in several volumes. In recognition of his services to the preservation and research of the history of the Hanseatic city, he was made an honorary member of the Bremen German Society .
In addition, Post was a collector of coins , medals and gems . He had started with it on his trip to Italy in 1716/17, on which he made the acquaintance of the Italian antiquarian Francesco de Ficoroni , with whom he kept in correspondence on questions of numismatics in the following years .
State archivist
Due to the desolate state of the files of the Bremen Council , Hermann Post was appointed the city's first professional archivist in 1727 for an annual salary of 300 Reichstalers . Previously, the task was provisionally performed by councilors or mayors. In the minutes of the council it says: "[It was] presented that it would be extremely necessary, and it was also advised by a distinguished hand to order an archivarium."
Post amalgamated the scattered files in the town hall and separated the previously mixed government and administrative documents from the writings of the judicial registries. As an extension of a register begun by Mayor Diedrich Hoyer at the end of the 16th century, Post created a classification system of alternating literate and numbered upper and lower groups for the council's files. This so-called “Post's order” proved to be so flexible that it was essentially retained well into the 19th century.
In addition, from 1743 he reorganized and listed the documents from the bar . The Trese (from Latin thesaurus , German 'treasure') comprised the town's documents, such as privileges, contracts and title, which had been kept in the north tower of the Liebfrauenkirche since the 13th century.
In October 1762, Post resigned from office due to illness. He was followed as archivist by his sons Simon Hermann Post (1724–1808) and later Liborius Diederich Post (1737–1822).
Fonts
- De felicibs ecclesiae Bremensis initiis et ejus primorum episcoporum meritis schediasma. 1722.
- Brema literata. 1726.
- Fasti consulares et senatorii. 1726.
- Spiritual and secular state.
- Inscriptiones liberae reipublicae Bremensis.
- Stemmata familiarum Bremensium.
literature
- Wilhelm von Bippen : Archivist Hermann Post. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch. Volume 21, Bremen 1906, pp. 128-145.
- Karl H. Schwebel : Hermann Post, a collector and folder of valuable old documents. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch. Volume 55, Bremen 1977, pp. 77-126.
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archives: Archives in German-speaking countries. de Gruyter, 1974, p. 142.
- ^ Wilhelm von Bippen: Archivist Hermann Post. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . Volume 21. Bremen 1906, p. 128.
- ↑ online at the SuUB Bremen: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46:1-679
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Post, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Post, Hermann von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and archivist in Bremen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1693 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1762 |
| Place of death | Bremen |