Karl Heinrich Siegfried Rödenbeck

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Karl Heinrich Siegfried Rödenbeck (born November 22, 1774 in Dobrilugk , † December 26, 1860 in Berlin ) was a German historian who had an impact primarily through his extensive work on the life of Frederick the Great .

Life

Karl Rödenbeck was the son of a Saxon judicial officer and his wife Johanne Sophie Tugendreich Lunitz. Since his father died in 1782, Karl started as an apprentice in a materials store in Berlin at the age of 14 . He used what little free time he had to continue his self-taught training. In 1794 he moved to another Berlin shop as an employee. In 1798 he became an accountant for a tobacco factory in Potsdam . As a businessman he visited the trade fair in Frankfurt / Oder and made several business trips that took him through Brandenburg, Silesia , Poland , East Prussia and Pomerania .

In 1801 he married Anna Dorothea Kohlhepp and after she died in 1813, Johanna Emilie Boden was married again. The first and second marriage each had five children, including Carl Rödenbeck (1811–1871), lawyer and judicial commissioner, and Paul Rudolf Siegfried Roedenbeck (1822–1891), Privy Councilor.

In 1801 he opened his own tobacco shop in Berlin. In 1805 he bought a tobacco factory, the profits of which enabled him to retire from business life as a privateer in 1824 .

Since the 1790s Rödenbeck has been systematically expanding his private library, which in 1852 grew to several thousand volumes and was bought by Friedrich Wilhelm IV . From 1798 onwards he published journal articles on natural and economic history. From 1817 he concentrated on the biography of Frederick the Great, which had always been a focus of his book collection. He was in close contact with the German historian Johann David Erdmann Preuss .

In recognition of his services, he was accepted as a member of several scientific and historical societies, although he had no regular academic training. In 1853 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle . He died of a stroke at the age of 86 .

Fonts

  • Overview of the state and regent changes in Lower Lusatia. Berlin 1823
  • Thorough and easily comprehensible instructions for the so-called Italian double bookkeeping. Publishing house of H. Vogler'schen Buchhandlung, Potsdam 1833
  • From 1836 to 1842 his contributions to the enrichment and explanation of the life history of Friedrich Wilhelm I and Frederick the Great, Kings of Prussia, appeared in five volumes ; together with an appendix, containing a diary from Frederick the Great's regent life 1740–1786, with historical, characteristic etc. notes, corrections etc.
  • Examination and correction of Krahmer's writing: Prussian conditions. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1841
  • The sugar question and the letter to a landowner on the same subject. Verlag der Stuhr'schen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1842
  • On the history of Friedrich Wilhelm the Great Elector of Brandenburg. Three files. Published by Veit and Comp, Berlin 1851.

literature

  • Rochus von Liliencron :  Roedenbeck, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 11-13.
  • Rudolf Lehmann : Bibliography on the history of Niederlausitz. Volume 1, Berlin 1928; Volume 2, Münster / Cologne 1954
  • Dr. Georg Schuster: The Niederlausitzer font collection K. Rödenbeck in the Königl. House archive. In: Niederlausitzer Mitteilungen. Volume 9, 1906, pp. 360-375
  • Dr. Ballhausen: The importance of Karl Roedenbeck, born in Dobrilugk, as a historian. In: The home calendar. 1939 No. 8/9, local supplement to the Luckauer Kreiszeitung or for the Luckau district
  • Max Arnim: International Personal Bibliography. Stuttgart 1952, p. 425
  • Wolfgang A. Mommsen : The bequests in the German archives. Boppard 1971, p. 420
  • Andreas Hanslock: Who was Karl Heinrich Siegfried Roedenbeck? In: Der Speicher 1996. Annual publication of the Finsterwalde District Museum and the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Finsterwalde District Museum. Bad Muskau 1997
  • Frederick the Great - From my life. Audio book, 6 CDs, speakers: Uwe Friedrichsen, Elke Diekenbrock, Harald Nikelsky, Archiv Verlag GmbH (digital publishing) 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rochus von Liliencron :  Roedenbeck, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 11-13.
personal data
SURNAME Rödenbeck, Karl Heinrich Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rödenbeck, Carl Heinrich Siegfried; Roedenbeck, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobrilugk
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1860
Place of death Berlin