Johann Georg Lehmann (historian)

Pastor Johann Georg Lehmann

Johann Georg Lehmann (born December 24, 1797 in Bad Dürkheim , † August 5, 1876 in Nussdorf ) was a Protestant pastor as well as a Palatinate local historian, historian and author.

biography

Lehmann was the son of the reformed pastor Wilhelm Lehmann from Osthofen and attended high school in his home town of Dürkheim. From 1814 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Heidelberg and developed an early interest in history. That is why he also received lessons in historical auxiliary sciences such as diplomacy , coat of arms, seal, coin and written studies.

In 1818, in his homeland, the Reformed united with the Lutherans to form the Protestant Church of the Palatinate . Johann Georg Lehmann entered her service and was parish administrator or vicar in Heuchelheim near Frankenthal from 1818 to 1821 . In 1822 he moved to Ellerstadt in the same capacity . In 1824 he became pastor of Altleiningen , 1828 of Weisenheim am Berg , 1840 in Kerzenheim and in 1846 in Nussdorf near Landau, where he stayed until the end of his life. In 1826 he married Charlotte Kurz from Weilburg , she died in 1837 and the widower married a second time. He had a total of seven children.

In 1849 he wrote a memorandum to the Paulskirche parliament in favor of the political equality of Jewish fellow citizens.

historian

Lehmann's life and official work hardly differed from that of other Protestant pastors; However, his research into local history made him a timelessly well-known personality in the region.

Strongly interested in local history, Johann Georg Lehmann gathered a vast amount of historical data and facts, visited archives, libraries and museums, as well as castles, churches and other historical sites. In 1822 he wrote his first local history book in Ellerstadt, “History of the Limburg Monastery near Bad Dürkheim an der Haardt” . Numerous other publications followed which made the pastor, alongside Franz Xaver Remling and Michael Frey , one of the most important home historians of the Bavarian Rhine Palatinate in the 19th century. His research was thorough, the presentation of the matter accurate and largely religiously objective; He was accused of cryptocatholic tendencies in particular because of a work published in 1845 on the Philippstift Zell .

King Ludwig I of Bavaria valued Lehmann's historical work and presented it to the parish of Nussdorf himself in 1846. In 1860, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences appointed him its corresponding member.

Commemoration

Johann Georg Lehmann died in Nussdorf in 1876. His grave is preserved and cared for in the local cemetery. In the Museum Peasants' War House Nussdorf a pastor Lehmann office is set up in one of his works and objects are on display in his possession. A street in the village has also been named after him.

Most of his academic legacy (including many valuable documents) was acquired by the University of Heidelberg, where it remained accessible to interested parties.

Family environment

The half-brother of Johann Georg Lehmann's father was the mayor of Frankenthal , Karl Lehmann. His grandsons (sons of Johann Georg Lehmann's cousin Friedrich Lehmann) are the bacteriologist Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1858–1940) and the anti-Semitic publisher Julius Friedrich Lehmann (1864–1935).

Works

(Selection)

• History of the Limburg Monastery near Bad Dürkheim an der Haardt , 1822; (Digital scan)
• Genealogical and diplomatic history of the Counts of Leiningen , 1828–1829
• Genealogical-diplomatic history of the Westerburg dynasty , 1830; (Digital scan)
• Historical paintings from the Rhine district of Bavaria , 3 volumes, 1832–1841; (Digitalscan Volume 1, Das Leininger Tal ) , (Digitalscan Volume 2, Das Dürkheimer Tal ) (Digitalscan Volume 3, Das Neustadter Tal )
• Draft of a Rhineland-Palatinate state history , 1837
• Documented history of the monasteries in and around Worms , 1840 ( digital scan of the second print in: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology , Volume 2, Darmstadt, 1841 )
• Brief history of the Bavarian Palatinate , 1842; (Digital scan)
• Diplomatic history of the monastery of St. Philip of Zell in the Palatinate , 1845
• The documented history of the former free imperial city and current federal fortress Landau in der Pfalz , 1851; (Digital scan)
• History of the district capital Kaiserslautern and the former Reichsland , 1853; (Digital scan)
• Signpost through the Palatinate , 1857
• Documented history of the castles and mountain palaces in the former districts, counties and lordships of the Bavarian Palatinate , 5 volumes, 1857–1866; (Digital scan volume 1)
• Documented history of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , 2 volumes, 1862–1863; (Digital scan volume 1) , (Digital scan volume 2)
• Complete history of the Duchy of Zweibrücken and its princes , 1867; (Digital scan)
• Documented history of the Lords and Counts of Falkenstein am Donnersberg , 1872; (Digital scan)
• Thirteen castles in Lower Alsace and Bad Niederbronn , 1873
• History of the old Alsatian imperial city of Kron-Weißenburg , 1874

literature

• Jakob Franck :  Lehmann, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 145-147.
• [Johann Josef Hermann] Schmitt: The Palatine historian Johann Georg Lehmann . In: Palatinate Museum . VII year, 1890, p. 17–19, 26, 33–35, 42–43 ( The Palatine historian Johann Georg Lehmann ). and [Johann Josef] Hermann Schmitt: The Palatinate historian Johann Georg Lehmann . In: Palatinate Museum . VIII year, 1891, p. 9–11, 17–18, 26–27, 34–36 ( The Palatinate historian Johann Georg Lehmann ).
• Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities. 3rd, revised. and exp. Ed. Arwid Hennig, Edenkoben 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , pp. 512-513.
• Rudolf Fendler: Johann Georg Lehmann, 1797-1876: a Palatine historian. Historical Association Landau in the Palatinate , 1976.

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Georg Lehmann  - Sources and full texts

• Biographical website of the Landau-Nußdorf community
• Website of the University of Heidelberg with its own section on Johann Georg Lehmann

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Osthofen website, mentioning the Lehmann family ( memento of the original from March 30, 2012 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.  
2. ^ Digital scan of the political memorandum
3. ^ Johann Georg Lehmann , members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
4. ^ Website of the Pfarrer-Lehmann-Stube
5. ↑ Online access to the documents of the Lehmann estate