Johann Paul Priem

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Johann Paul Priem (born July 10, 1815 in Nuremberg ; † December 27, 1890 there ) was a German librarian and city historian.

Life

Johann Paul Priem was the son of the master bookbinder Karl Friedrich Priem and his wife Katharina, geb. Farmer. First he was tutored at home by the family pastor Friedrich Bauer, then he attended Latin school in his home town of Nuremberg. After the early death of both parents, he had to switch to secondary school, which he graduated from in 1829, and then completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. However, this profession, which his uncle exercised in Nuremberg, did not correspond to Priem's ​​inclinations and he turned instead to literature.

After a time as a journeyman on the road, Priem began working as a proofreader in a bookstore in Nuremberg. In 1840 he was a co-founder of the Literary Society in Nuremberg, which he also directed for some time. From 1843 he worked as a theater secretary until 1849, when he switched to the newspaper "Fränkischer Kurier" as an editor. In 1850, Priem then moved to the "Kurier für Niederbayern" in Landshut , where he married the shipmaster's daughter Margaretha Lauerer, with whom he had eight children, four of whom died early. In 1853 he returned to Nuremberg, where he worked in the Bauer & Raspe bookstore until 1861, owned by his friend Julius Merz.

In 1864 Priem took up a position as a library assistant at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, which he lost again two years later due to job cuts as a result of the German War . In 1867 he was appointed curator of the Nuremberg City Library and the City Archives. In Jakob Zeiser's publishing house , Priem published a “History of the City of Nuremberg”. In addition, Priem worked as a dialect poet, wrote poems and dramas.

Johann-Priem-Strasse in Nuremberg is named after him.

Works (selection)

  • History of the city of Nuremberg . Jakob Zeiser Verlag, Nuremberg, 1875.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Paul Priem (Ed.): Konrad Grübel and his successors in the Nuremberg dialect poetry. Ballhorn, Nuremberg 1873, p. 182.
  2. ^ Priem, Johann Paul. In: Franz Brümmer : Deutsches Dichterlexikon. Volume 2, Krüll, Eichstätt 1877.
personal data
SURNAME Priem, Johann Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and city historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1890
Place of death Nuremberg