Johann Karl Sigmund Kiefhaber

Johann Karl Sigmund Kiefhaber (born April 24, 1762 in Nuremberg , † March 6, 1837 in Munich ) was a German civil servant and historian.

Life

Johann Karl Sigmund Kiefhaber was born as the son of Johann Konrad Kiefhaber (* unknown; † April 14, 1790), counter-writer of the Reichsstadt-Nürnberg monastery offices of St. Klara and Pillenreuth , which were secularized at the time of the Reformation, and his wife Susanna Barbara, née. Kiefhaber, born.

He initially received his lessons from the private tutors Johann Tischberger (1715–1793), Kramer and Stockburger and from 1773 to 1779 attended the top three classes of the Nuremberg Gymnasium with teachers Oltmann, Johann Paul Sattler (1747–1804) and Schenk. For a year and a half he then attended the public lectures by Professors Johann Sigmund Mörl (1710–1791), Johann Albrecht Vogel (1705–1785), Bernhard Jakob Degen (1717–1781), Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch von Buschenau and Martin Frobenius Ledermüller (1719– 1769) at the Nuremberg Egidian Auditorium ( Lyzeum ) and also received private lessons from Johann Eberhard Ihle in drawing, Johann Aegidius Eichhorn (1724–1787) in mathematics, Wilhelm Leonhard Maltherr in geometry and Johann Karl Chapuset (1694–1770) in the French language ; during this time he was instructed in official business by his father.

On October 27, 1780 he came to Altdorf University and completed a law degree as well as literature, history and diplomacy by September 22, 1783. To this end, he attended lectures by Professor Georg Andreas Will , Wolfgang Jäger , Johann Andreas Michael Nagel and Johann Christian Siebenkees, among others . After completing his studies, he visited various German universities in Würzburg , Mainz , Gießen , Marburg and Göttingen in order to get to know the scholars and statesmen.

After his return to Nuremberg he was his father's intern for a year and from December 26, 1784 to 1790 secretary at Stromer von Reichenbach in Nuremberg. After the death of his father, he was given the third official post at the monastery offices of St. Klara and Pillenreuth, which he held until 1803, when a sub-delegation (delegation to a subordinate authority) entrusted him with the establishment of the registry at the forest office, and he the provisional one Received transfer to the partial jurisdiction of the two forest offices. As the forest official fiefdom secretary, he passed on September 15, 1806 from the free imperial city of Nuremberg to the royal crown of Bavaria. Until 1812 he was used by the royal government authority for multiple, mostly historical, diplomatic research. During this time in 1809 he was transferred to the position of secretary of the royal Bavarian Protestant theological and philological examination commission. In Munich he was appointed first adjunct at the newly founded royal Bavarian general archive and took up the position on June 14, 1812.

In 1815, King Maximilian I gave Joseph general instructions on all archives, under the highest direction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a ministerial archives commission, in which Kiefhaber was appointed assessor with an advisory vote. On May 1, 1818, he received the title of Royal Real Council.

On October 18, 1822, Johann Karl Sigmund Kiefhaber received his doctorate from the philosophy faculty of the University of Erlangen .

On February 1, 1829 his retirement took place; However, he received permission to hold historical and diplomatic lectures at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as an honorary professor in the philosophical faculty, just as he had previously given lectures to archive interns and registry assistants in the royal general archive.

Johann Karl Sigmund Kiefhaber was first married to the second daughter of the rector and Professor Leonhard Schenk (1724–1814) at the egidic auditorium in Nuremberg. His wife died in 1814 and the marriage remained childless. His second wife, a daughter of the district forester Späth from Sachsbach, died in 1829.

Memberships

• On February 7, 1791 he was accepted as a full member in Nuremberg in the Pegnese Flower Order .
• In 1792 he became one of the founders of the Nuremberg Society for the Promotion of Patriotic Industry , where he gradually took over the position of lecturer and secretary and held the position of director for four years.
• In 1805 he was accepted as a foreign honorary member by the Electoral Saxon Leipzig Economic Society .
• On December 9, 1808, he was elected a full member of the General Cameralistic-Economic Society in Erlangen .
• In 1822 he was accepted into the Society for Older German History for the promotion of a complete edition of the source scripts of German medieval history in Frankfurt am Main .
• On April 1, 1828, he was made an honorary member of the ducal Nassau Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research.

Fonts (selection)

• Concerning the origin of the custom of giving gifts to one another on the New Year. An attempt at the change of year . Altdorf 1783.
• Chronological list of those Lords von Stromer who have been in council in the imperial city of Nuremberg since the 13th century up to the present day . Nuremberg on April 11, 1787.
• Memorial of friendship at the early grave of Wolfgang Paul Tischberger, Schreib- u. Rechenmeister in Nuremberg, December 10, 1788 .
• The supplements to the materials on Nuremberg history . 1. Collection (Nos. I. to XII .; IV. Volume ) 1793. 2. Collection. (No. XIII-XIV). 1794.
• Hallowed in memory of Emperor Leopold II, on the day of his death ceremony in Nuremberg, including accompanying description . Nuremberg 1792.
• Historical chronological register of the epidemics among humans and animals that have ruled the imperial city of Nuremberg and its area from the beginning of this century until now . Nuremberg 1796.
• Overview of the changes that have occurred in the local medicinal institutions for 50 years . Nuremberg 1796.
• Historical-diplomatic description of the Nuremberg monastery seal, as an attempt to contribute to German sphragistics . With 2 copper plates. Nuremberg 1797.
• Monthly historical-literary-artistic. Advertisements on the ancient and modern history of Nuremberg . 6 years from 1797–1802. Nuremberg.
• Life and merits of Georg Andreas Will's, imperial court u. Palatine, the world wisdom of the doctor and the same ordinary public teacher . With the portrait of the deceased. Nuremberg 1799.
• Fragments from the history of the patriciate in the free imperial city of Nuremberg . Nuremberg 1799.
• Instructions for visiting the Willisch-Norische Library . Nuremberg 1800.
• Repertory of Nuremberg history and coinage . In a main register of the Nuremberg coin amusements, to which a small subregion about the sayings or mottos on the described and cited coins is added by the author of these coin amusements. Issued after his death. Nuremberg 1800.
• Talk of the usefulness and the expedient establishment of a public library for special national business; held at the opening of the Willisch-Norische Library . Nuremberg 1800.
• Letter of congratulations to Mr. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Löffelholz von Colberg, when he married Fraulein Elise König von Königsthal, from a friend . Nuremberg, May 28, 1800.
• Memorial of friendship to the immortalized Mr. Karl Alexander Kiener, Rector of the St. Sebald School in Nuremberg and member of the Pegnese Flower Order there on behalf of the Society . Nuremberg 1801.
• Register of the ordinance of the association of all foundation u. charitable poor and hospitals, under a general direction from 1803 .
• News on the ancient and modern history of the free imperial city of Nuremberg. A contribution to the history of the imperial cities in Germany . 3 vols. Nuremberg 1803-1807.
• Monument to the friendship of the immortalized Mr. Adam Michael Spranger . Deacon at the town church in Herspruck, on behalf of the Pegnese Order of Flowers. Nuremberg 1806.
• Order of the Nuremberg Zeidelgericht zu Feucht from the year 1478. A contribution to the German legal antiquities . Nuremberg 1807.
• News of the 50th anniversary of the official jubilee of Mr. M. Leonhard Schenk, former rector and professor at the Aegidian high school in Nuremberg, along with the speech that was given . Nuremberg 1809.
• Spirit of the curriculum for the elementary school in Baiern for non-profit use for elementary school teachers and supervisory authorities . Nuremberg 1812.
• Complete register of the criminal code for the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1813.
• About the year of death of Emperor Otto I. Nuremberg, 1816.
• Bibliographic news from Hanns Gerle , the older, famous lutenist of Nuremberg in the 16th century . Nuremberg 1816.
• D. Martin Luther's letter to Ludwig Senftl, ducal Bavarian court musician in Munich . Nuremberg 1817.
• Draft of instructions for registry science for use in lectures on the same in the royal general archive in Munich . Munich in April 1823.
• Preface to the Regensburg Chronicle, fourth and last volume - by Karl Theodor Gemeiner , royal Bavarian Land Director and archivist, with a bio and bibliographical abstract of the deceased author . Regensburg 1824.
• Basic lines of a guide to archive and registry knowledge for use in lectures about the same at the royal Bavarian Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Munich 1827.
• Investigation of the question: is diplomacy just a historical auxiliary science or does it assert its influence on other sciences as well? - An inaugural address given in the meeting room of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences on November 29, 1826 . Sulzbach 1827.
• Historical-diplomatic discussion of the question: What is to be thought of the von Waldeckische Erbtheilungsbrief from the year 1170 as the oldest private document in the German language? Sulzbach 1827.
• Tournament book of Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria from 1510–1545 . According to a simultaneous manuscript in the Royal Library in Munich, faithfully reproduced in lithography by Theobald Klemens Senefelder with an explanation accompanied by Ms. Simple roll. 1-5 Issue Munich 1818–1824. 5. – 8 issues Munich 1827.
• The sayings of the seven wise men of Greece . Released and accompanied with a few notes and explanations. Munich and Nauplia 1833
• He has written various essays in the materials on the Nuremberg history of Johann Christian Siebenkees .
• He made the register of the 6 volumes of the journal by and for Francs .
• Contributions to the four supplement volumes of Georg Andreas Will 's Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon .
• Contributions to the history of the Nuremberg trade by Johann Ferdinand Roth .
• Contributions to Johann Christoph Martini : Historically geographical description of the Engelthal convent . Nuremberg 1798.
• Contributions to Gerhard Adam Neuhofer's annual paperback Klio und Euterpe .
• Contributions in the annual published in Nuremberg in Der Verkündiger .
• Contributions to the annual general camera, police, economy, forest, technology and trade correspondent .
• Contributions in the journal for Bavaria and the neighboring countries of Count Hans Adam von Reisach.
• Contributions to the archive of the Society for History .
• Articles in the Allgemeine Litterarischer Anzeiger .
• Articles in Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung ( list ).
• Reviews in the Leipzig literary newspaper .
• Some articles in the Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste published by Johann Samuelansch and Johann Gottfried Gruber .
• Some articles in the Anzeiger für Kunde des German Middle Ages by Freiherr Hans von und zu Aufseß (1832 and 1833).

literature

• Johann Karl Sigmund Kiefhaber in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 15th year, 1837, 1st part, p. 332 f. Weimar 1839.
• Edmund von Oefele:  Kiefhaber, Johann Karl Sigmund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 712 f.
• Johann Karl Sigmund Kiefhaber in Georg Andreas Will: Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexikon , p. 204 f. Altdorf 1802.

Web links

• Johann Karl Sigmund Kiefhaber in the House of Bavarian History .
• Johann Karl Sigmund Kiefhaber in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alphabetical list of resp. Members of the general cameralistic-economic society in Erlangen . 1813 ( google.de [accessed on October 3, 2018]).