Johann Martin Lappenberg

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Relief by Johann Martin Lappenberg; Hamburg City Hall, entrance hall

Johann Martin Lappenberg (born July 30, 1794 in Hamburg ; † November 28, 1865 there ) was a German historian .

Life

Johann Martin Lappenberg was born the son of the Hamburg doctor Valentin Anton Lappenberg (1759–1819), the son of Samuel Christian Lappenberg , and his wife Catharina Margarethe Sillem (1765–1840), a great-granddaughter of Garlieb Sillem . In Hamburg he attended the Johanneum and the Academic Gymnasium .

In March 1813, at the age of 19, Lappenberg wanted to join the liberation corps of the Russian general Freiherr Friedrich Carl von Tettenborn . But his parents forbade him and sent him to Edinburgh to study medicine there. The trip to Scotland was arduous, as the French occupation of his hometown meant that he could only embark there secretly, via Heligoland . In Edinburgh he first studied medicine, but after a few lectures Lappenberg switched to political science and history. During this time he made friends with the writers Walter Scott and William Wordsworth . He continued his studies in London .

In 1815 Lappenberg returned to study law with Karl Friedrich Eichhorn and Friedrich Karl von Savigny at the Humboldt University in Berlin . But a year later, in 1816, he moved to Göttingen and received his doctorate there in Gustav Hugo Dr. jur. A few years as a lawyer in Hamburg followed. In 1819 he was sent to the Hamburg ministerial resident at the Prussian court. In Berlin he found a connection to the circle of the Berlin Romanticism and made friends with Ludwig Achim von Arnim , Clemens Brentano , Friedrich Karl von Savigny and Rahel Varnhagen , but his service became more and more repugnant. Therefore Lappenberg went back to Hamburg in 1823 and became archivist of the Senate Archives of the Hamburg Senate .

In 1839 Lappenberg not only helped found the Association for Hamburg History , he also became its first director. He had to master the greatest problems as an archivist in 1842, when a great number of archive materials were destroyed forever in the Great Fire . In 1849 Lappenberg was sent to the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main as a member of the Hamburg Senate . In 1855 the University of Kiel awarded him the title of Dr. hc As he was threatened with blindness due to his eye disease, Lappenberg retired in 1863 at the age of 69. Otto Beneke succeeded him as Senate archivist.

Lappenberg was a conservative scholar who led a secluded life. He was reserved, if not suspicious, of most of the reforms carried out in Hamburg after 1848 (e.g. the "Law on Citizenship and Citizenship" passed by the Senate in 1864).

Lappenberg was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences , the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Russian Academy of Sciences . He was an employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , for which he edited the Chronica Slavorum by Arnold von Lübeck . Lappenberg discovered the Annales mosellani in a manuscript in the Russian National Library in Saint Petersburg .

Tomb of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery in Ohlsdorf

family

In 1825 Lappenberg married Maria Emilie Baur, daughter of Georg Friedrich Baur from Altona. His wife died in the year of the wedding. After an appropriate period of mourning, he married her younger sister Marianne Louise Baur. With her he had three daughters and three sons. His daughter Emilie was married to Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen . On April 2, 1849, his second wife Marianne Louise died.

Honors

At the Ohlsdorf cemetery , in the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, there is a tomb for Johann Martin Lappenberg. The Lappenbergsallee in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel was named after him. The Lappenberg Medal has been awarded by the Association for Hamburg History since 1864 .

Works

  • Program for the third Secularfeyer of the civil constitution of Hamburg on September 29, 1828 . Hamburg, Meissner, undated [1828].
  • History of england. Perthes, Hamburg 1.1834 - 11.1898
  • Historical sources of the archbishopric and the city of Bremen. Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1967 (reprint of the Bremen 1841 edition)
  • Hamburg Chronicles in Lower Saxony. Sendet, Niederwalluf 1971, ISBN 3-500-23100-4 (reprint of the Hamburg 1861 edition)
  • Hamburg legal antiquities. s. n., Hamburg 1907 (reprint of the 1845 edition)
  • Hamburg document book. Voss, Hamburg 1842
  • Documented history of the Hanseatic steel yard in London. Zeller, Osnabrück 1967 (reprint of the Hamburg 1851 edition)
  • Documented history of the origin of the German Hanseatic League. 2 vol. Perthes, Hamburg 1830 (Ed .; Author: Sartorius, Georg Friedrich Freiherr von Waltershausen )
  • (Ed.) Tratziger's Chronica of the City of Hamburg. Hamburg: Perthes-Besser & Mauke 1865 ( digitized version )
  • From the Cistercian Abbey to Herwardeshuthe and its transformation into the St.Johannis-Kloster , in: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History 4, 1858, pp. 513-572.

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personal data
SURNAME Lappenberg, Johann Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1865
Place of death Hamburg