Joseph Prince

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Joseph Prinz (born July 11, 1906 in Emden , † December 16, 2000 in Darmstadt ) was a German archivist .

Career

Prinz grew up in Bückeburg . After graduating from high school, he studied history at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1932 under Karl Brandi with a study on the territory of the Diocese of Osnabrück , which was published in 1934. In 1937/38 he completed the preparatory service for a higher archival career at the archive school in Berlin-Dahlem.

As a scientific assistant at the archives advice center of the Province of Westphalia, he organized the archive of the Greven Office and then wrote a chronicle of the Greven Office on behalf of Greven's Mayor Vorndamme. In 1941 he moved to the State Archives in Münster and completed his habilitation in the same year at the Westphalian Wilhelms University .

From 1954 he was head of the Münster City Archives , from 1957 head of department at the Max Planck Institute for History and from 1961 until his retirement in 1971 head of the Münster State Archives . In retirement he worked as the head of Germania Sacra . At the same time he has been teaching as an honorary professor at the University of Münster since 1963.

He was an honorary member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , to which he had belonged since 1947, and the Geographical Commission for Westphalia .

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SURNAME Prince, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2000
Place of death Darmstadt