Johannes Falcon

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Johannes Falke (born April 10, 1823 in Ratzeburg , † March 2, 1876 in Dresden ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

Johannes Falke was the brother of Jacob von Falke , first studied theology in Erlangen , but turned to cultural history as a private tutor in Munich, became first secretary at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg in 1856 , then in 1862 secretary and in 1864 archivist at the main state archive in Dresden . From 1856 he published the magazine for German cultural history together with Johannes Müller , which only existed for four years.

During his studies in Erlangen he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in the winter semester of 1843/44 .

Fonts

  • History of German Commerce. 2 volumes. Leipzig 1859-1860 ( digitized volume 1 ), ( digitized volume 2 ).
  • The Hansa as a German sea and trading power. Berlin 1862.
  • History of the mining town of Geyer. Dresden 1866 ( digitized version ).
  • The history of the Elector August of Saxony in economic terms. Leipzig 1868 ( digitized version ), with this work Falke won the Prize of the Princely Jablonovskian Society ( Societas Jablonoviana ) in 1868 .
  • The history of the German customs system: from its creation to the conclusion of the German customs union. Leipzig 1869.

Johannes Falke published several related articles on the history of the German economy in the new edition of the magazine for German cultural history as well as a treatise from Saxon history in various magazines.

literature

  • Walter-Wilhelm Busam: Johannes Falke, historian of the economies in Nuremberg and Dresden. His life and his writings. Munich 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 155.

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SURNAME Falke, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falke, Johannes Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratzeburg
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1876
Place of death Dresden