Johann Wolf (historian)

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Memorial plaque on the St. Martin Church in Nörten-Hardenberg

Johann Vinzenz Wolf (born July 19, 1743 in Kreuzeber , † April 23, 1826 in Nörten ) was a German historian and a full-time Jesuit canon of the Petristift Nörten.

Life

Johann Wolf entered the Jesuit college in Heiligenstadt as a novice in 1759 . In the following years he worked on various Jesuit colleagues in Alsace and finally returned to Heiligenstadt. Here he experienced the dissolution of the Jesuit order by Pope Clemens XIV. In 1785 he received a canonical from the Archbishop of Mainz in Nörten, in which he worked until his death. This sinecure allowed him to spend a lot of time on local history work. To his merit counts in his research the recourse to documents in order to come in this way to his objective historiography. From the Protestant side, however, the criticism was loud that he wrote as a Catholic and based too much on the Mainz sources. Wolf worked mainly in Eichsfeld and is considered the founder of Eichsfeld historiography .

Posthumous appreciation

A primary school in Nörten-Hardenberg in southern Lower Saxony and a regular school in Dingelstädt are named after him. Furthermore, one street in Kreuzebra , Worbis and Nörten-Hardenberg bears his name. In Kreuzebra there is a memorial for him on the main street. There are memorial plaques for him at the churches of St. Sergius and Bacchus (Kreuzebra) and St. Martin Church in Nörten-Hardenberg.

Works (selection)

  • Political history of the Eichsfeld: explained with documents. Volume I and Volume II. Göttingen, Rosenbusch 1792/1793
  • History of the Eichsfeld . Schmieder, Hanover 1805
  • History of the Hardenberg family. Baier, Göttingen 1823 ( digitized version )
  • Memories of the market town of Dingelstädt in the Harz department, District Heiligenstadt . Reprint of the original edition from Göttingen 1812, Cordier, Heiligenstadt 1994
  • Eichsfeld record book together with a treatise on the Eichsfeld nobility. Göttingen, Röwer, 1808 and Göttingen, Baier, 1819, 1823
  • Monuments of the city of Worbis and its surroundings. Göttingen, Baier, 1818
  • Eichsfeld church history: with 134 documents. Göttingen, Baier, 1816
  • History and description of the city of Duderstadt: with documents and 3 coppers. Göttingen 1803

literature

  • Ulrich Hussong : Johann Wolf, historian of the Eichsfeld. Regional historiography around 1800 . Duderstadt 2005, ISBN 3-936617-29-5
  • J. Jaeger .:  Wolf, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 762-764.
  • Thomas Berger:  Wolf, Johann Vinzenz, SJ. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 1504-1506.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Johannes Müller: Johann Wolf . In: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder. Volume 3, Pictures of Life in the 18th and 19th Century. Self-published, Magdeburg 1928, pp. 156–174
  • Christophe Duhamelle, Maik Pinkert: Johann Wolf's will. In: Hussong / Müller: Johann Wolf - Historian of the Eichsfeld. Duderstadt 2005, pp. 195–199
  • Ewald Frankenberg: The Wolf family from Kreuzebra. In: Hussong / Müller: Johann Wolf - Historian of the Eichsfeld. Duderstadt 2005, pp. 27–35
  • Helmut Godehardt: Johann Wolfs Foundation "for the best poor house sick in Kreuzeber" from April 22nd, 1825. In: Hussong / Müller: Johann Wolf - Historiker des Eichsfeldes. Duderstadt 2005, pp. 191–194

Web links

Commons : Johann Vinzenz Wolf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ April 26 and June 6 are also given as the days of death.
  2. ↑ Information from Dt. National Library.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Gresky: Johann Wolf (1743-1826) and Göttingen . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch . tape 24 , 1976, ISSN  0072-4882 , pp. 61 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Johann Vinzenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreuzeber
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1826
Place of death Nörten