Julius Menadier

Julius Menadier (born August 7, 1854 in Gandersheim , † January 12, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German numismatist . His focus was on the field of numismatics of the Middle Ages.

After visiting the Martino-Katharineum Braunschweig and studying ancient history in Göttingen (1874) and Berlin (until 1878), he received his doctorate there in 1880.

He was then entrusted with the organization of the coin collection at the Ducal Museum in Braunschweig (today: Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum ). In 1884 he began as a trainee at the Münzkabinett Berlin , in 1885 he became assistant director there, from 1898 to 1921 he was its director, until 1919 together with Heinrich Dressel . During his work at the cabinet, the collection was expanded considerably. In his publications he primarily used his knowledge of the written tradition of the Middle Ages, which sometimes led him to dogmatism towards archaeological sources. So he fought polemical essay battles with another connoisseur of medieval numismatics, Hermann Dannenberg . The issue is explained in the article Sachsenpfennig-Otto-Adelheid-Pfennig .

His children Karl (1889–1914) and Dorothea (1891–19 ??) were also active in numismatics.

Fonts

German coins. Collected essays on the history of the German coinage. 4 volumes. Weyl, Berlin 1891-1922.
Show coins of the house of Hohenzollern. Royal Museums in Berlin and others, Berlin 1901.
The Coins of the County Mark. In: Aloys Meister (Ed.): Die Grafschaft Mark. Festschrift to commemorate the 300-year union with Brandenburg-Prussia. Volume 1. Ruhfus, Dortmund 1909, pp. 667-690 .
The Aachen coins. In: Journal of Numismatics . Vol. 30, 1913, pp. 321-422, ( digital version (PDF; 19.58 MB) ).

For further publications see: Tassilo Hoffmann : Menadier's previous coin-science writings. In: Berliner Münzblätter. New series Vol. 9, Vol. 49, 1929, pp. 502-511.

literature

Tassilo Hoffmann: Julius Menadier on his 75th birthday. In: Berliner Münzblätter. New series Vol. 9, Vol. 49, 1929, ISSN 0932-2299 , pp. 499-501.
Richard Gaettens : Julius Menadier †. In: Sheets for Coin Friends. Vol. 20 = New Series 7, Vol. 74, 1939, ZDB -ID 551280-3 , pp. 373-374.
Arthur Suhle : Julius Menadier. In: Berlin museums. Vol. 60, No. 2, 1939, pp. 34-38, JSTOR 4238005 .
Peter Berghaus : Julius Menadier, August 7th, 1854 Gandersheim - January 12th, 1939 Berlin. In: Monetary History News. Vol. 34, No. 191, 1999, ISSN 0435-1835 , pp. 149-153.
Bernd Kluge : A numismatist and museum man from the imperial era. Julius Menadier (1854–1939) and the Berlin Coin Cabinet. In: Monetary History News. Vol. 39, No. 220, 2004, pp. 213-222.
Bernd Kluge: The Coin Cabinet - Museum and Science Institute. Berlin 2004 ( Memento from May 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (with picture) (PDF file; 3.87 MB).

Web links

Literature by and about Julius Menadier in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Reinhold Wex: On the history of the numismatic evening Braunschweig . In: Stadtarchiv Braunschweig (ed.): Contributions to the medieval history of coins and money in Lower Saxony . tape 61 . Verlag Uwe Krebs, 2018, ISBN 978-3-932030-80-2 , p. 16 .

personal data
SURNAME	Menadier, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 7, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gandersheim
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1939
Place of death	Berlin

[Wex-1] Reinhold Wex: On the history of the numismatic evening Braunschweig . In: Stadtarchiv Braunschweig (ed.): Contributions to the medieval history of coins and money in Lower Saxony . tape 61 . Verlag Uwe Krebs, 2018, ISBN 978-3-932030-80-2 , p. 16 .