Johannes Biereye

Johannes Biereye (StA Erfurt, approx. 1920)

Johannes Biereye (born June 10, 1860 in Brücken (Helme) , Province of Saxony , † January 19, 1949 in Erfurt ) was a German historian and educator.

Life

Johannes Biereye grew up in Brücken (Helme) and attended the Royal High School in Erfurt . He then studied ancient languages ​​and history at the University of Halle , where he did his doctorate on a topic of ancient history.

He became a high school teacher and got his first job in Niesky in Upper Lusatia . In 1901 he moved back to Roßleben near his home , where he became a teacher at the Roßleben monastery school . A few years later he came to the Royal High School in Erfurt . There he began the continuation of the " History of the City of Erfurt " left behind as a fragment by Carl Beyer . In 1908 he became director of the grammar school. In the same year the academy of non-profit science in Erfurt elected him as its vice president.

After the First World War, Biereye helped found the Erfurt adult education center in 1919 and became chairman of the Erfurt History and Classical Society . In 1925 he was elected chairman of the library society and in 1930 president of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt as the successor to Friedrich Wilhelm Prince of Prussia , who died in 1925 . He held this office until 1945.

He died on January 19, 1949 at the age of 88 in Erfurt. His “History of the City of Erfurt” remained unfinished.

Works (selection)

• Alfred Kirchhoff . In: Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder, Volume 1, Lebensbilder des 19. Jahrhundert, Magdeburg 1926, pp. 357–375
• Richard Bärwinkel . In: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder. Volume 3, Pictures of Life in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Self-published, Magdeburg 1928, pp. 507-521.
• Wieland's correspondence with the von Keller family in Stedten near Erfurt , Erfurt 1932
• Erfurt Castle World : The "Wallburg im Steiger" and the "Schloss Stedten" , Weimar-Buttstädt 1932
• The Secret Commerce Councilor Friedrich Ernst (Fritz) Wolff (1839–1928) and his family , Weimar 1933
• The unity of Thuringia , Erfurt 1933
• The University of Erfurt , Erfurt 1933
• The Gleichen Castle and its inhabitants in the history and legend of Erfurt 1935
• Home and Education , Erfurt 1935
• History of the City of Erfurt, Volume 1 , Erfurt 1935
• Erfurt in its famous personalities , Erfurt 1937

Awards

• Honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Halle in 1927

literature

• Steffen Raßloff : "Ad maiorem Erfordiae gloriam". 150 years of the Erfurt history and archeology association 1863–1945 and 1990–2013 . In: Communications of the Association for History and Archeology of Erfurt 74 (2013). Pp. 7-46.
• Steffen Raßloff: Escape into the national community. The Erfurt bourgeoisie between the Empire and the Nazi dictatorship . Cologne / Weimar / Vienna (Böhlau Verlag) 2003.
• Rudolf Benl: Johannes Biereye (1860-1949). A picture of life . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde von Erfurt 60 (1999), pp. 121–164
• Ernst Lehmann (Ed.): Festschrift for Johannes Biereye on his 70th birthday on June 10, 1930 . History Association Publishing House, Erfurt 1930
• Steffen Raßloff: founding father of modern city history . In: Thüringer Allgemeine from June 29, 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Biereye in the catalog of the German National Library
• Johannes Biereye's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)