Ignaz Theodor Liborius Meyer

Ignaz Theodor Liborius Meyer

Ignaz Theodor Liborius Meyer (born May 29, 1773 in Paderborn ; † September 18, 1843 ibid) was a German Catholic cathedral chapter , archivist and historian . Meyer was director of the Association for History and Archeology of Westphalia, which he initiated .

Life

Meyer's summer house

Meyer was the son of the Prince-Bishop's Privy Councilor and Chancellor Johann Friedrich Anton Meyer (1724–1796) and Maria Anna Katharina Meyer born. Wenneker, daughter of a Paderborn court advisor and court judge. The silent Meyer, who was already impaired by a foot paralysis at a young age, was earmarked for a spiritual career; as early as 1790 he was given a canonical at the Busdorf Abbey , which was to ensure his further education and care. From 1792 to 1794 he studied theology and law in Würzburg , and from 1794 to 1796 law and history in Göttingen . After his return he took on tasks for the clerical court authority (court and official court), in 1799 he was appointed trainee lawyer, in 1807 he was appointed assessor. Meyer continued to live on his prebend , but the court brought additional income ( sports ). After the prince-bishopric passed to Prussia in 1803, the court lost jurisdiction over civil proceedings, but appeals proceedings for other spiritual courts were added. After Paderborn passed to the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807, the court was overturned and Meyer was appointed assessor of the vicariate in 1811. With the abolition of the Bußdorf monastery, Meyer lost his prebend, and in 1812 he was granted a pension. Meyer uses the space for first historical studies.

Meyer took on numerous honorary positions during the Wars of Liberation . At a central point he worked, among other things, in the administrative commission for the voluntary contributions to equipping the hunter detachment, in the liquidation commission for the Westphalian debt system and in the municipal poor commission. In the vicariate of the bishop he was responsible for foundations.

In 1816, his services to the common good earned Meyer an assignment that would shape his future life. On behalf of the Prussian authorities, he traveled to Göttingen to bring back the documents and copy books that had been relocated there during the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia . Upon return, he submitted fundamental considerations on the future handling of the documents of the dissolved monasteries and countries, which were acutely threatened with decay and destruction after secularization . The President of the Prussian Province of Westphalia, Ludwig von Vincke , passed the proposals on to Berlin, where they were incorporated into the conception of the Prussian archives. Meyer was commissioned to record, secure and record the archives of the Principality of Paderborn and neighboring areas in the sense suggested by him. Meyer refused the appointment as head of the State Archives in Münster in 1817, in 1818 he was appointed archives commissioner for the emerging archive depot in Paderborn, and Paul Wigand was temporarily assigned to him as an employee . In recognition of his services to archives and the poor, Meyer was appointed to the Paderborn Cathedral Chapter by Bishop Franz Egon von Fürstenberg on October 25, 1823 ; In 1834 he received the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class .

Since Meyer was increasingly asked for expert opinions, in 1823 he encouraged his friends to found a regional history association , as it already existed in other German countries at that time. On July 19, 1824, the Society for the History and Archeology of Westphalia was founded in his garden house , and he was its director and focus until his death. A Münster department , which was founded soon after, disbanded after a few years; it was revived from 1831 by the State Archives Director Heinrich August Erhard at Meyer's insistence. To this day, the association consists of the two independent departments Münster and Paderborn .

At Meyer's suggestion, one of the main tasks of the association was the publication of the Westphalian document book . Meyer did not live to see the publication of the first volume in 1847, and the editor was transferred to Heinrich August Erhard .

The Ignaz-Theodor-Liborius-Meyer-Preis is named after Meyer and has been awarded annually since 1991 by the Association for History and Archeology of Westphalia, Dept. Paderborn .

Fonts

Essays

• Attempt to tell the story of the old Iburg fortress, the von Driburg family and the town of the same name . In: WA Ficker's Driburger Taschenbuch on the year 1811 , pp. 1–78.
• The Desenberg near Warburg . In: Archive for History and Archeology of Westphalia , 1st vol. 1826, 2nd issue, pp. 25–48 ( digitized version ) and p. 110–112 ( digitized version )
• Confirmation certificate from Bishop Baldwin from 1345, on the rights of the city of Driburg . In: Archive for history and antiquity of Westphalia , 2nd vol. 1828, 4th issue, pp. 361–364 ( digitized version )
• Contributions to the history of the Villicationen in the Middle Ages . In: Archive for history and antiquity of Westphalia , 3rd vol. 1828, 2nd issue, pp. 144–147 ( digitized version )
• Violent extortion from the abbot of the Helmarshausen monastery . In: Archive for history and antiquity Westphalen , 3rd vol. 1828, 3rd issue, pp. 193–201 ( digitized version )
• The establishment of Fürstenberg Castle on Sendfeld, and an overview of its subsequent history . In: Archive for history and antiquity of Westphalia , 3rd vol. 1828, 4th issue, pp. 208-217 ( digitized version )
• Monastery and town of Gehrden . In: Archive for history and antiquity of Westphalia , 4th vol. 1831, 1st issue, pp. 67-101 ( digitized version )
• Historical fragments from the Bödeken monastery . In: Archive for history and antiquity of Westphalia , 4th vol. 1831, 3rd issue, pp. 270–286 ( digitized version )
• Fragments from the office of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn . In: Archive for History and Archeology of Westphalia , 5th Vol. 1832, 2nd Issue, pp. 111-131 ( digitized version )
• Diplomatic contributions to a history of the Counts of Arnsberg and Rietberg . In: Archive for history and antiquity of Westphalia , 6th vol. 1834, 1st issue, pp. 38-107 ( digitized ) and 2nd issue, pp. 169-258 ( digitized ); 7th vol. 1838, 2nd / 3rd Issue, pp. 95–204 ( digitized version )
• Explanation of two previously unprinted Minden documents . In: Archive for history and antiquity of Westphalia , 7th vol. 1838, 4th issue, pp. 329–439 ( digitized version )
• Wilhelm, Duke von Berg, former Bishop of Paderborn, one of the ancestors of the Royal Prussian House . In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity , Volume 5, 1842, pp. 369–375 ( digitized version )

literature

• Bernd Mütter: Domkapitular Ignaz Theodor Liborius Meyer (1773–1842), the founder of the "Association for Patriotic History and Antiquity of Westphalia" (Paderborn 1824) . In: Westfälische Zeitschrift , Volume 162, 2012, pp. 341–349.
• Wilhelm Liese : Necrologium Paderbornense. Book of the Dead Paderborn Priest (1822 - 1930), Junfermannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung Paderborn 1934, p. 384f.
• Heinrich August Erhard : Ignaz Theodor Liborius Meyer, a biographical monument . In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity , Volume 6, 1843, pp. 310–341 ( digitized version )