Josef Pfennigmann

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Josef Pfennigmann (born March 7, 1923 in Altötting ; † May 27, 1978 in Munich ) was a German historian . His main area of ​​work was the medieval history of Bavaria . One focus of his work was on researching the early and high medieval history of his hometown Altötting and its grace chapel . For Josef Pfennigmann, local history became a science. He worked as a city archivist and museum director in Burghausen , as a freelancer for Bayerischer Rundfunk and as a lecturer at Süddeutscher Verlag .

Live and act

Josef Pfennig man came from a Inntaler Bauer family and grew on the parental farm Altötting on. In 1940, at the age of 17, he was called up for military service, served in theaters of war in Crete and Russia, and later seriously wounded. In 1944 he graduated from high school and studied history first in Innsbruck and then in Munich at the Ludwig Maximilians University . In 1952 he did his doctorate under Johannes Spörl with the thesis Studies on the History of Altötting in the Early and High Middle Ages . In this work he also dealt extensively with the prehistory of the Gnadenkapelle. His findings at the time were confirmed by excavations during construction work after his death.

Between 1949 and 1952 Josef Pfennigmann edited the papers for historical research and homeland care, Inn-Salzach-Land , as a supplement to the Südostkurier and was on friendly terms with their colleagues Benno Hubensteiner and Herbert Schindler . From 1953 he was employed as city archivist, museum director and cultural advisor in Burghausen . The first major expansion of the non-governmental museum at Burghausen Castle is closely linked to the name of Josef Pfennigmann. He also worked as a freelancer for Bayerischer Rundfunk on audio clips on historical topics in Bavaria. In the last years of his life he worked in Munich as a research assistant and editor for Süddeutscher Verlag .

Works (selection)

  • Studies on the history of Altötting in the early and high Middle Ages. Dissertation, ISBN 3-920191-21-8 .
  • 1500 years of the Bavarian map. The history of Bavaria. Volume I. Early and Middle Ages. Herbert Neuner, Munich 1954.
  • 1500 Years of the Bavarian Map . The History of Bavaria Volume II. The Modern Age. Herbert Neuner, Munich 1957.
  • Contributions in: Herbert Schindler (Ed.): Bavarian Symphony, Volume 1, Land and People, History and State. Verlag Bruckmann, 1967.
  • Burghausen on the Salzach. In: Unknown Bavaria. Castles - palaces - residences. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1960, reprint 1975/1976, ISBN 3-7991-5839-1 .
  • The Öttinger and Burghauser Land. In: The Altötting district . Neue Presse, Passau 1978.
  • With Helmut Dotter Weich and Kurt Reichel: Telekolleg I. Bavarian History. Lexicon 1-6. Tr Verlagsunion, 1982, ISBN 3-8058-0079-7 .
  • "How many miraculous church trips ...". Popular piety and enlightenment in old Bavaria. In: Herbert Schindler (Ed.): Bavaria in the Rococo. Aspects of an era in transition. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7991-6434-0 .
  • With Alois Buchleitner, Johann Dorner and Max Hingerl: Six hundred years of Burghausen Rent Office. Burghausen 1992. (= Burghauser Geschichtsblätter. Volume 47.)
  • The Bavarian popular piety and the enlightenment (manuscript of a radio broadcast, 1971) In: Oettinger Land. Volume 18, 1998, pp. 146-154.

literature

  • Herbert Schindler : In Memoriam. Dr. Josef Pfennigmann. In: East Bavarian border marks. 20, 1978, p. 217.
  • Peter Noble: In Memoriam. Dr. phil. Josef Pfennigmann. In: Oettinger Land. Volume 18, 1998, p. 5.

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