Johannes Heller

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Johannes Heller (born April 3, 1851 in Travemünde , † November 28, 1880 in Berlin ) was a German historian and collaborator at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica .

Life

Johannes Heller was a son of Pastor Ludwig Heller in Travemünde. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until Easter 1871 and then matriculated at the University of Berlin , but initially did his military service in the 2nd Guard Regiment . He switched to the University of Göttingen to study history, where Georg Waitz became his teacher. In the spring of 1874 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

He spent the summer semester of 1874 in Vienna with Theodor Sickel . In autumn 1874 he joined the Prussian archives service as an assistant at the State Archives in Breslau , but soon gave up this position. He was temporarily editor at the Schlesische Zeitung for Eastern European affairs .

When the Central Directorate of the Monumenta Germaniae historica was newly formed in April 1875 under the chairmanship of Georg Waitz, he appointed Heller to Göttingen in May to work in the Scriptores department of the Monumenta. Heller initially took over the preparatory work for the edition of the Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium of Aegidius von Orval . When Waitz moved to Berlin on October 1, 1875, he sent Heller to northern France and Belgium to get numerous collations and copies for the edition of historical sources. During the winter from October 1875 to March 1876 he worked in Metz , Reims , Valenciennes , St.-Omer , Boulogne , Brussels , and Liège , mostly under very unfavorable conditions , and brought abundant material to Berlin. After a short stay he went to Italy with Waitz to carry out similar work for other areas in Milan , Modena , Rome and Venice . On this trip he also visited Naples and its surroundings.

After he returned to Berlin in July 1876, he was entrusted with processing the material collected in France and Belgium. He completed the editions of the Historia monasterii Viconiensis , Lamberts von Ardres Historia comitum Ghisnensium , Wilhelms Chronica Andrensis (in Mon. Germ.Hist ., Script. XXIV. 1879), the above-mentioned work by Aegid von Orval and other Liège and Metz sources, the Genealogiae ducum Brabantiae , the Chronicon Hanoniense qd Balduini Avennensis , which he wrote through an article in the New Archive d. Ges. F. older German history VI, 129 f. (1880), and by Johannis de Thilrode Chronicon (in Mon. Germ. Hist., Script. XXV. 1880). Heller did not live to see the publication of this volume. His last work was the edition of Flodoards of Reims Historia Remensis , which he could no longer complete. Georg Waitz completed it after his death (Mon. Germ. Hist., Script. XIII. 1881). The preparation of this issue gave Heller the opportunity to write the ADB article Hinkmar .

Probably through the recommendation of Ernst Curtius , the then Crown Prince Victoria asked him in the summer of 1878 to accompany the then Prince, later Kaiser Wilhelm, on a trip to England. He should try to influence his worldview. Victoria hoped that Wilhelm would make Heller his private secretary, but that did not happen.

In the summer of 1879, Heller completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in history at Berlin University and read two semesters with great success. In the previous two winter semesters he had already given lectures on Italian and French history at the Victoria Lyceum founded by Georgiana Archer .

When he returned to Berlin from an officer's exercise in the fall of 1880, he fell ill with severe typhus . He died of the consequences of a heart attack on November 28th and was buried in the Matthäikirchhof . Karl Adam Windel held the funeral service . Wilhelm Wattenbach , in whose house he had lived for the last few years, and Friedrich Paulsen wrote him memorials.

Fonts

  • Germany and France in their political relations at the end of the interregnum until the death of Rudolf von Habsburg. Diss. Göttingen 1874
  • Trip to Lorraine, Northern France and Belgium. In: New Archive of the Society for Older German History 2 (1877), p. 301 ff.
  • (Ed.) Lamberti Ardensis historia comitum Ghisnensium , MGH SS 24 (1879), pp. 550-642
  • (Ed.) Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium. in: MGH SS 25 (1880), pp. 1–129.
  • (Ed.) Chronicon Hanoniense quod dicitur Balduini Avennensis , in: MGH SS 25 (1880), pp. 414-467
  • (Ed., Completed by Georg Waitz) Historia Remensis ecclesiae, MGH SS 13 (1881), pp. 409-599

literature

  • Georg Waitz : Journey to Italy in the spring of 1876. In: New archive of the society for older German history 2 (1877), 325 ff.
  • Georg Waitz: Obituary for Johannes Heller ibid 6 (1882), p. 457 f.
  • Friedrich Paulsen: Dr. Johannes Heller. Printed as a manuscript in 1880
  • Karl Adam Windel: Commemorative words spoken at the coffin of the private docent Dr. phil. Mr. Johannes Heller. Printed as a manuscript in 1880
  • Wilhelm Wattenbach: Johannes Heller: born. April 3, 1851, d. November 28, 1880. In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Alterthumskunde 3 (1880), pp. 37-38
  • Oswald Holder-Egger :  Heller, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 165-167.

Web links

Wikisource: Johannes Heller  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Not the oldest son (ADB), his brother Ernst Heller (* 1848) was older
  2. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907), No. 684
  3. ^ So ADB, after Röhl it was Karl Friedrich Lucian Samwer and Ernst Steindorff
  4. ↑ ADB (lit.)
  5. ↑ See in detail John CG Röhl : Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859-1888. Pp. 259-262; German: Wilhelm II. Volume 1: The Emperor's Youth, 1859–1888. Munich: Beck 1993; 3rd edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-37668-9 , pp. 274-277
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and collaborator at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Travemünde
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1880
Place of death Berlin