Karl Franz Meyer

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Karl Franz Meyer (born May 26, 1728 in Aachen , † April 7, 1795 in Werden monastery ) was a German historian , notary and procurator as well as head of the archive of the city of Aachen.

Live and act

Karl Franz Meyer, the son of Johannes Meyer and Agnes Körver, first attended the Jesuit School in Aachen, which later became the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium , before joining the Carmelite Order in Cologne in 1746 . Due to discrepancies with his novice master , however, he left the monastery and returned to Aachen. After studies of rights and history had meanwhile been completed, Meyer was hired as a notary and procurator for the city of Aachen. Finally, on November 10, 1780, he was given the management of the Aachen City Archives and, two years later, on December 3, 1782, he was promoted to Council Secretary. During this time he undertook extensive trips to research printed sources, to copy them or even to transfer them to Aachen at great expense.

Karl Franz Meyer, who could not come to terms with the French conquest of the territories on the left bank of the Rhine , fled from the French in 1794 to the Werden monastery near Essen-Werden , where one of his two sons, Franz Karl Ludwig Meyer, was already a member of the abbey. At the same time, large parts of the archive were moved to Münster at his instigation, but they were brought back to Aachen in 1797 and continued there from 1803 by his second son Karl Franz Leonhard Meyer . Karl Franz Meyer did not recover from the excitement during the escape and died a few months later on April 7, 1795 in Werden monastery. Meyer was married to Johanna Maria Faucken, with whom he had two daughters, Maria Agnes (* 1762) and Anna Maria (* 1769) in addition to the two sons mentioned.

Fonts

  • Miscellanea Borcetano-Aquisgranensia or collection of various credible documents pertaining to the imperial freye empire city of Aachen, then the rulership of Burtscheid, together with the addition of some strange legal care that had an impact on the common being at the last place ; Aachen, 1772; Two volumes of a collection of Aachen and Burtscheid documents as handwritten self-work in collaboration with the abbess of the Cistercian abbey in Burtscheid, whose special value for historians lies in the uniqueness of the unpublished work. They include, among other things, the history of Burtscheid, the dairy farm , the cloth makers' unrest, religious affairs and the fire in Aachen in 1656.
  • Aachen stories ;; Three volumes, Aachen, 1781; Meyer's main work, on which he had worked for over twenty years under the most difficult conditions. But he was significantly supported by the abbeys Kornelimünster and Kirchrath, today's Rolduc Abbey near Kerkrade and other urban monasteries and churches. Based on old sagas and stories as well as sources from the entire near and far surrounding area, he investigated the history of Aachen from the eighth to the middle of the first century. The first volume contains the coronation, church, war and state histories, the second a detailed description of the city and its surroundings as well as its internal constitution and the third volume finally the privileges, letters of grace, covenants, treaties, ordinances and other documents. In this, he deals in particular with the following topics:
    • The defense of the decree made by Charlemagne for the sake of the coronation site
    • Responsible safekeeping rights of the imperial regalia via the coronation city of Aachen
    • From the dispute between Aachen and Cologne at the Roman royal coronations
    • Attempts to elucidate the old Aachen coinage .
  • History of the mischief or the unfortunate party rival of the imperial city from 1786–1792 ; unpublished work, which however consists of an extensive collection and chronologically ordered material from party releases, council resolutions, newspaper articles and documents from the French occupation and is stored in the city archive.
  • Historical treatise on the society of the Aachner bow riflemen . Plum, Aachen 1802 ( digitized version )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miscellanea Borcetano Aquisgranensis of Karl Franz Meyer in the collection Crous : Meyers Urkundenbuch ( Memento of 6 September 2010 at the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Karl Franz Meyer: Aachensche Stories
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Karl Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist for the city of Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1795
Place of death Aachen