Jacobus Reimers (monument conservator)

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Jacobus Reimers (also: Jakobus Reimers ; * May 7, 1850 in Hatshausen ; † December 26, 1914 in Berlin ) was a German architect , museum director , provincial conservator, and art and prehistorian .

Life

Jakobus Reimers was born in Hatshausen near Aurich during the Kingdom of Hanover in 1850 as the son of a clergyman. He passed his school leaving examination in Lingen in 1870 and then took part in the Franco-German War from 1870 to 1871 as a war volunteer .

In 1871, the year the German Empire was proclaimed , Reimers began studying architecture in Hanover at the polytechnic school there as a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase . From the year he finished his studies, Reimers worked from 1875 to 1879 as a site manager in Hase's office.

Also in the early days, Reimers worked for a short time from 1881 to 1882 in Hildesheim as an employee of the building inspection there. He then studied archeology and art history in Berlin until 1883 . In 1884 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität for an archaeological work on the Doric Temple . In the same year Reimers volunteered at the Royal Museums in Berlin , where he received a permanent position as assistant director on April 1, 1886.

The Friedrich-Wilhelm house on Georgstrasse in Hanover was Reimer's residence around 1910;
Postcard number K 43 from Friedr. Astholz jun.

On April 1, 1890, Jacobus Reimers in Hanover was appointed the first full-time director of the Hanoverian Provincial Museum for Art and Science , which later became the Lower Saxony State Museum . This was initially housed in Sophienstrasse and changed its headquarters around 1901/1902 to the new building built by Hubert Stier at Maschpark .

Gravestone for Reimers in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin

Meanwhile, Reimers had been appointed provincial curator in Hanover as early as 1894. During his tenure, historically significant monuments were restored, including the Marienkirche in Osnabrück , the Johanniskirche and the town hall in Lüneburg or the Michaeliskirche in Hildesheim . In addition, Reimers published a handbook on the preservation of monuments in 1899 .

Jacobus Reimers was a co-founder of the Society for German Prehistory , which held its first meeting in Hanover in 1909.

Around 1910 Reimers lived on the 3rd floor of the Friedrich-Wilhelm house on Georgstrasse in Hanover. On April 1, 1910 Reimers retired. He found his retirement home in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Peter Floetner based on his hand drawings and woodcuts , 116 z. Partly illustrated pages Munich [u. a.]: Hirth, 1890
  • Handbook for the preservation of monuments , published by the Province of Hanover / Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of Monuments, 498 pages, Hanover: Ernst Geibel, [circa 1911]
    • New edition Leipzig: Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, 1986
    • 2nd, revised and increased edition, reprint of the original edition Hanover, Geibel, 1911, under license from the Central Antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, New York [u. a.]: Saur, 1986
  • The eagle coat of arms with the Frisians , Oldenburg: Stalling, 1914; contents
  • Johannes Heinrich Müller : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover , ed. by Jacobus Reimer, Hanover: Hanover: Th. Schulze, 1893; ( PDF; 25.0 MB )

posthumously :

  • Contributions to the history of East Frisian cities. Collected treatises and essays / Heinrich Reimers , Ed .: Heinrich Reimers, Vol. 1: Aurich, Emden, Norden , Aurich: Meyer, 1979

literature

  • Hans Gummel : Research History in Germany (= Prehistory research and its historical development in the civilized states of the world , Vol. 1), Berlin: de Gruyter, 1938; contents
  • Heinrich Reimers: Jacobus Reimers , Hildesheim [u. a.]: Lax, 1939
  • Jan Filip : Encyclopedic Manual for Prehistory and Early History , Vol. 2: L - Z , Prague: Academia Verlag, 1969
  • Otto Heinrich May (ed.): Lower Saxon Life Pictures (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Bremen , series 22, vol. 1), ed. on behalf of the Historical Commission, Hildesheim; Leipzig: Lax, pp. 336-353
  • Biographical Lexicon for East Frisia , ed. on behalf of the East Frisian Landscape by Martin Tielke . Aurich: Ostfriesische Landschaft, Vol. 1. 1993, pp. 291–292; also on the internet
  • Walter Deeters : Jacobus Reimer , ed. of the East Frisian landscape [undated], as a PDF document from the website ostfriesenelandschaft.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oV : Reimers, Jacobus ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek (undated), last accessed on October 12, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gwlb.de
  2. ↑ a b Compare the information and cross-references from the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Klaus Mlynek : Reimers, Jakobus. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 294f.
  4. ^ Compare the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden from 1910, p. 100; online as a digitized version via the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
personal data
SURNAME Reimers, Jacobus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reimers, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, art and prehistorian, museum director, state curator, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Hatshausen
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1914
Place of death Berlin