Johann Baptist Kolb

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Johann Baptist Kolb (born October 24, 1774 in Meersburg ; † May 18, 1816 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was an archivist and historian from Baden .

Life

Kolb was born as the ninth child of archivist Christoph Leopold Kolb and his wife Johanna von Schmidtfelden. The father was in Meersburg in the service of the Prince-Bishop of Constance, Karl Theodor von Dalberg . After attending the Lyceum in Konstanz , he studied history in Freiburg. In 1795 he first became an assistant and then his father's successor as archivist. After the prince-bishopric of Constance was secularized in 1802 in anticipation of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Kolb entered the service of the Electorate of Baden , and later of the Grand Duchy of Baden . He set up a provincial archive in Meersburg from the documents of the abolished monasteries in the now Baden Lake Constance region. In 1808 he became director of the Upper Rhine Archives in Freiburg.

His main work is the historical-statistical-topographical lexicon of the Grand Duchy of Baden , the first two volumes of which were published in 1813 and 1814 in Karlsruhe by the Carl Friedrich Macklot'sche Hofbuchhandlung und Hofbuchdruckerey and the third in 1816 in Karlsruhe by Gottlieb Braun. After the first two volumes were published, Kolb changed publishers because he felt constricted for economic reasons and wanted to design the lexicon in more detail. A planned supplementary volume was no longer published because Kolb died of overexertion four months after the publication of the third volume. The work met with great approval, but also constructive criticism, as Lorenz Oken put it in a draft letter. His most important sponsor was the Baden State Councilor Johann Nicolaus Friedrich Brauer , to whom Kolb dedicated his work.

At that time, Kolb could only fall back on a little preparatory work. These included Iselin's newly-augmented historical and geographic general lexicon , Röder's geographic statistical-topographic lexicon of Swabia , and the Badische Margraviate von Schmidt. The archives of Freiburg, Karlsruhe and Mannheim, as well as the district and parish offices were further sources.

His work was the first description of the newly formed Grand Duchy of Baden and was the corresponding standard work for decades. As recently as 1863, the association for local descriptions in the Grand Duchy of Baden , which was founded at that time, referred to Kolb, whose work was to be continued in a “more scientific and detailed way”.

Fonts

  • Historical-statistical-topographical lexicon of the Grand Duchy of Baden containing, in alphabetical order, a complete description of all fortresses, cities, towns, villages, castles, monasteries, donors, hamlets, farms, tines, mountains, valleys, ports, lakes, rivers, trading centers, Factory sites, health wells, baths and in general all the towns and areas of the Grand Duchy of Baden that are remarkable in any respect, along with their location, distance, past and present condition, and all their natural and artistic attractions.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year of birth 1744 is incorrectly listed in the Deutsche Bibliothek; Weech mentions 1774 and specifically emphasizes that Kolb died at the age of 42.
  2. ↑ s. Bader, p. 232
  3. ↑ see preface to volume 3.
  4. ↑ s. Pfannenstiel, p. 50.
  5. ↑ s. Pan handle.
  6. ↑ s. Bader p. 235
  7. ↑ s. on this, Bader p. 234
  8. ↑ Proof of digital copies of the various editions at wikisource [1]
  9. ↑ three volumes online at the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek digital
  10. ↑ Geographical-statistical-topographical description of the Electorate of Baden. 1. The Badische Margraviate / edited by Joh. Wilh. Schmidt. 1804 Google digitized version
  11. ^ Wirth: reporting on the establishment of the association. In: Badenia 1864, p. XI. Google digitization
personal data
SURNAME Kolb, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Meersburg
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1816
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau