Jürgen Sydow

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Jürgen Claus Hinrich Sydow (born April 30, 1921 in Dresden ; † January 13, 1995 in Tübingen ) was a German historian and archivist . From 1962 to 1983 he was director of the Tübingen City Archives. In 1971 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Tübingen . Sydow presented numerous studies on city history and church history. By working on the history of Regensburg and Tübingen, Sydow was one of the best-known historians of southwest German urbanism.

Live and act

Jürgen Sydow was a devout Catholic. He attended the Episcopal St. Benno-Gymnasium in Dresden and passed the Abitur there in 1939. From 1939 to 1942 he studied historical auxiliary sciences as well as history, art history , Middle Latin philology and Egyptology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

By January 1942, Sydow trained as an archivist in Dresden and Weimar . In the summer of 1942, Jürgen Sydow received his doctorate in Munich under Rudolf von Heckel with a thesis on the "paleography of Cologne coin inscriptions in the Middle Ages" . In the further course of the Second World War, he was called up for military service. He experienced the end of the war in Italian captivity.

After the end of the war, Sydow entered the Benedictine Abbey of Ettal as a novice in 1946 . There he acquired knowledge of the history of liturgy, but left the monastery after a few months.

Sydow worked as a lecturer at the Brandenburg State Archives until 1951 , but had to relocate from the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1951 due to political pressure . From 1953, Sydow worked as a city archivist and part-time teacher in Regensburg . In the course of the 1950s, Jürgen Sydow contributed many academic articles to the negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg . During his time in Regensburg, Sydow dealt with both local issues and objects from church history .

Between 1953 and 1962 Sydow worked for the State Office for Archives Maintenance in Münster. During his time in Münster, Sydow was involved in the development of the Altena City Archives . In the 1960s he and Matthias Simon had a controversy about the denominational character of the imperial city of Regensburg. From 1962, Sydow headed the archive of the university town of Tübingen . As the Tübingen city archivist, he and Udo Rauch for the first time roughly recorded the archival material of the 19th century in a card index. In 1963 Jürgen Sydow took over the management of the Southwest German Working Group for Urban History Research founded by Otto Feger and Gerd Wunder in 1960 . According to Helmut Maurer, this initiative was decisively shaped by Sydow for twenty years.

In the winter semester of 1965/66, Sydow took on a teaching position for history at the University of Tübingen . In 1971 he was made an honorary professor.

In 1974, Sydow presented the first volume of a Tübingen city history, which covers the period from the Alemannic settlement in Ammertal to the transition from the Palatinate Tübingen city to the Württemberg people in 1342.

In the 1980s, Sydow published several essays in the Tübinger Blätter that deal with , among other things, the Swabian enthusiasm for Poland and everyday life in medieval monasteries. On May 27, 1983, Sydow retired as Tübingen's city archivist. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, he was honored with a collection of his essays. Jürgen Sydow's estate is in the Tübingen City Archives. It bears the signature E206 and comprises around 10.6 meters of shelf space.

Sydow's work on the Italian language area

Since 1956 Sydow was a corresponding member of the Accademia Spoletina , published frequently in Italian magazines and regularly took part in conferences in Prato as a speaker. Sydow's publications in Italian include, among other things, Di taluni tentativi di trattative commerciali tra la Sassonia e le Sicilie durante il regno di Carlo di Borbone ("About certain trade treaty efforts between Saxony and Sicily during the reign of Charles of Bourbon ") from 1949 and Spoleto vista da viaggiatori tedeschi dal XVII al XIX secolo (" Spoleto from the perspective of German travelers from the 17th to the 19th century") from 1954.

Church history work

Right from the start of his academic career, Jürgen Sydow was heavily involved in the historical institutions of church life. In addition to some popular scientific works such as the picture book Bebenhausen - 800 Years of History and Art, he published the extensive monograph Die Cisterzienserabtei Bebenhausen in the Germania Sacra in 1969 . Subsequently he worked as the main author on "The Cistercians". Sydow also contributed to the 800th anniversary of the Decretum Gratiani in 1952 with a description of the decree manuscripts in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

Jürgen Sydow's primary research area was the connection between church history and the research field of medieval urbanism. With the help of interdisciplinary connections, Sydow designed a number of works that are valued in scientific circles for their high quality.

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A list of publications appeared in: Helmut Maurer (ed.): Cum omni mensura et ratione. Selected essays. Celebration for his 70th birthday. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1991, ISBN 3-7995-7070-5 , pp. 433-451.

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  1. ↑ Helmut Maurer (Ed.): Cum omni mensura et ratione. Selected essays. Celebration for his 70th birthday. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1991, p. 7 f.
  2. ↑ Uwe-Jens Wandel, Sönke Lorenz: Jürgen Sydow (1921–1995). In: Historisches Jahrbuch 117 (1997), pp. 513-514.
  3. ↑ Helmut Maurer (Ed.): Cum omni mensura et ratione. Selected essays. Celebration for his 70th birthday. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1991, pp. 7-8.
  4. ^ Website of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume 131 - Volume 140
  5. ^ Jürgen Sydow: The Brixner Hof in Regensburg. In: The Sciliar. Vol. 29, Bozen 1955, pp. 190 f. Jürgen Sydow:  Arx, Ildefons. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 404 f. ( Digitized version ) .; Jürgen Sydow:  Arnold of St. Emmeram. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 380 f. ( Digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Uwe-Jens Wandel, Sönke Lorenz : Jürgen Sydow (1921–1995). In: Historisches Jahrbuch 117 (1997), pp. 513-514.
  7. ^ Jürgen Sydow: Regest of the documents of the city archive Altena. In: The Märker. Volume 10, 1961, pp. 145, pp. 229-230, pp. 285-287, pp. 323-328. Jürgen Sydow: The Altena City Archives . In: The Märker. Volume 11, 1962, pp. 116-117.
  8. ^ Jürgen Sydow: The denominations in Regensburg between the Reformation and the Peace of Westphalia. In: Journal for Bavarian State History . Volume 23, 1960, pp. 473-491 ( digitized version ); Matthias Simon: A church treasure as a Reformation Memorial Foundation. In: Journal for Bavarian State History. Volume 27, 1964, pp. 409-430 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Helmut Maurer (Ed.): Cum omni mensura et ratione. Selected essays. Celebration for his 70th birthday. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1991, pp. 7-8.
  10. ↑ Antje Zacharias, Janette Schreibner: Repertory for inventory A 70, registry from 1857. Stadtarchiv Tübingen, Tübingen 2001, p. 3 ( PDF ( Memento from July 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )).
  11. ↑ Helmut Maurer: Jürgen Sydow (April 30, 1921– January 13, 1995). In: Journal for Württemberg State History . Volume 55, 1996, pp. 391-394, here: p. 392.
  12. ↑ Uwe-Jens Wandel, Sönke Lorenz : Jürgen Sydow (1921–1995). In: Historical yearbook. Volume 117, 1997, pp. 513-514.
  13. ^ Jürgen Sydow: History of the city of Tübingen. Part 1. From the beginning to the transition to Württemberg in 1342. Tübingen 1974.
  14. ↑ http://idb.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/opendigi/LXV198
  15. ↑ chronicle Tübingen, 05.27.1983 paragraph. Retrieved June 24, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Helmut Maurer (Ed.): Cum omni mensura et ratione. Selected essays. Celebration for his 70th birthday. Sigmaringen 1991.
  17. ↑ Uwe-Jens Wandel, Sönke Lorenz : Jürgen Sydow (1921–1995). In: Historical yearbook. Volume 117, 1997, pp. 513-514.
  18. ^ Jürgen Sydow: Spoleto vista da viaggiatori tedeschi dal XVII al XIX secolo. In: Spoletium. Volume 1, 2, 1954, pp. 23-27.
  19. ^ Jürgen Sydow: Bebenhausen - 800 years of history and art. Metz, Tübingen 1984, ISBN 3-921580-43-9 .
  20. ↑ Jürgen Sydow: The Cistercian Abbey Bebenhausen (= Germania Sacra. New episode 16: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The diocese of Konstanz. Volume 2). De Gruyter, Berlin 1984 ( PDF ).
  21. ↑ Jürgen Sydow, Edmond Mikkers, Anne-Barb: The Cistercians. Belser, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-763-01741-0 .
  22. ^ Jürgen Sydow: The decree manuscripts of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. In: Studia Gratiana. Volume 7, 1959, pp. 175-232.
  23. ↑ Jiři Kejř: Jürgen Sydow. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Canonical department. Volume 82, 1996, pp. 475-476, here: p. 476.
personal data
SURNAME Sydow, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sydow, Jürgen Claus Hinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1995
Place of death Tübingen