Hieronymus Christoph Nopp
Hieronymus Christoph Nopp (born May 13, 1832 in Philippsburg ; † December 9, 1893 in Philippsburg) was a member of the state parliament ( Catholic People's Party ) for 16 years (1877-1893 ) and as mayor for 22 years (1871-1893) until his death active in Philippsburg. He wrote the town history of Philippsburg. Professionally he was a businessman and privately he worked as a poet and lyricist .
family
Hieronymus Christoph was the second of four children of the merchant Joseph Maria Nopp and the Magdalena Maria Hildenstab . On June 12, 1856, he married Katharina Klein from Hambach an der Weinstrasse (* March 25, 1834, † April 20, 1897), a daughter of the teacher Franz Klein and Katharina born in Philippsburg . Julier , * in Mittelhambach .
Five children emerged from this connection:
- Eugen Christoph (born March 9, 1857 in Philippsburg; † June 30, 1937 in Philippsburg), businessman, counselor , savings bank administrator in Philippsburg
- Maria Katharina (born February 11, 1862 in Philippsburg, † November 29, 1933 in Philippsburg); in 1884 she married the district court director Julius Ignaz Breitner
- Franz Joseph Maria (born May 11, 1864 in Philippsburg, † September 25, 1864 in Philippsburg)
- Augustin Jerome Francis (born December 31, 1869 in the Philippsburg, † 17 July 1915 in the Philippsburg), Archbishop's court chaplain in Freiburg
- Paul Joseph Maria (born April 21, 1878 in Philippsburg, † around 1911 in Buchheim (near Freiburg)), Dr. med.
Among his ancestors and also uncle already had councilors , ratchet driver and mayors worked all in Philippsburg.
A relationship with the reformer of the same name, Hieronymus Nopp (1495–1551), who was active in Franconia and Saxony, has not been proven.
Works
After 20 years of research, he wrote his best-known work on the 1222-year history of Philippsburg:
- City history of Philippsburg: History of the city and former imperial fortress of Philippsburg from its emergence from the castle and the village of Udenheim to the onset of the same in Baden. Speyer 1881.
“No university professor and teacher in history could have written it better. It is written with the author's heart and soul; because he loved the lonely town with all his heart. "
literature
- G. Braun: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Karlsruhe State Archives, 1895.
- Hans-Jürgen Kremer, Michael Caroli, Jörg Schadt: With God for Truth, Freedom and Law, sources on the organization and politics of the Center Party and political Catholicism in Baden 1888-1914. (= Publications of the Mannheim City Archives. Volume 11). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1983, ISBN 3-17-008053-9 .
- Rudolf Futterer: Hieronymus Nopp; His life and his poems. Philippsburg 1988, DNB 978711335 .
- Rudolf Futterer: The historian and poet Hieronymus Nopp (1832-1893) and his beloved romantic Palatinate home. Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science (Historisches Museum Speyer), 1990.
- Helmut Bender: The poems of Hieronymus Nopp. In: Helmut Bender Bibliography 1949–1989. Resin, Weil am Rhein 1990, ISBN 3-923066-27-9 .
Posthumous honors
- Hieronymus Nopp School Philippsburg
- Hieronymus-Nopp-Strasse in Philippsburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philippsburg Local Family Book No. 3616
- ↑ Between Oberhambach and Diedesfeld
- ↑ Holdings 218 in the GLA Karlsruhe ; Book overview from Heimatverein Philippsburg ; Press report in the Heimatverein
- ↑ Hansjakob was a guest at the Nopp house during his stay in Philippsburg in 1903. He knew the former colleague of Baden, Hieronymus Nopp, and his history.
- ↑ Book cover Hieronymus Nopp ; His life and his poems
- ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate Bibliography
- ^ Hieronymus-Nopp-Schule in Philippsburg, a primary and technical secondary school
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nopp, Hieronymus Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Protestant theologian, rector and Regensburg reformer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philippsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1893 |
| Place of death | Philippsburg |