Karl Herquet

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Karl Herquet , also Carl Herquet , (born October 5, 1832 in Fulda , † March 6, 1888 in Osnabrück ) was a German archivist and historian . Herquet was the Prussian state archivist in Aurich and Osnabrück. He also wrote under the pseudonym Lothar Schenck .

Life

Herquet came from an originally French family from Picardy , who immigrated to the Principality of Fulda in 1668 . Grandfather Lothar Herquet became a lawyer, government director and member of parliament. His father Franz Herquet also became a lawyer and practiced as a lawyer . His mother was born Schenck.

Herquet attended grammar school in Fulda from 1843 to 1852. In 1852 he began to study law at the University of Marburg , but soon changed the subject and studied philology and history . In Marburg he became a member of the Corps Hasso-Nassovia , a student union to which he remained loyal throughout his life. He finished his studies at Munich University in 1856. He received his doctorate in 1859 at the philosophical faculty of the Marburg University with the dissertation on the idea of ​​Oedipus from Colonus as a Dr. phil.

From March 1861 to June 1865, Herquet took over the secretariat of the Order of St. John and the Order of Malta , an office that was assigned to him by the board of directors of the order's patronage, the legal knight August Franz von Haxthausen . Since that time he has dealt intensively with the history of the two orders of knights and published some writings on the subject. In September 1865, Herquet received the order from the Hessian government to reorganize the Fulda regional archive with its large inventory of Carolingian documents, of which he published photographic reproductions. Until April 1867 he worked in Fulda . During this work he was also able to publish articles on the history of the Fulda Monastery.

From 1869 to 1873 he was busy with the organization of the city archive in Mühlhausen / Thuringia . There he prepared the document book of the former free imperial city of Mühlhausen, which was later published with the Mühlhausen mayor Bernhard Schweinberg . In the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 Herquet took part as a non-combatant and received the Prussian Order of the Crown, 4th class, and the war commemorative coin for his services . During the war he accompanied the chief delegate of the Order of St. John, Otto zu Solms-Rödelheim, and undertook a business trip to the hospital in Strasbourg on his behalf in September 1870 .

In October 1874 he joined the Prussian archives service as archive secretary at the Nassau State Archives in Idstein . He published a detailed memorandum on the issue of a Codex diplomaticus Nassoicus and edited Regesten of gräflich Solms-Roedelheimer archive to Assenheim . There he also wrote the monograph Kristan von Mühlhausen , Bishop of Samland 1276–1295 . He was later transferred to Königsberg , in February 1876 to Breslau and in April 1878 to Aurich, where he was appointed state archivist in July. In July 1886 he was last transferred to Osnabrück, where he took over the management of the local state archive. In 1887 he was given the character of an archive council .

Karl Herquet died on March 6, 1888, at the age of 55, unmarried after a long lung problem in Osnabrück. Herquet was an Old Catholic . His larger collections on the Order of St. John and the Order of Malta were acquired from the estate by Joseph Delaville Le Roulx .

Publications (selection)

  • About the idea of ​​Oedipus on Colonos. A philosophical-aesthetic treatise. ( Dissertation ), Marburg 1859.
  • The Order of St. John according to its internal constitution and its current circumstances. Along with an explanation of the relationship between the first two German dignities. Würzburg 1865. ( digitized version )
  • Specimina diplomatum monasterio Fuldensi a Karolis exhibitorum. Photographic replicas of the Carolingian documents issued to the Fulda Abbey. (as editor), Kassel 1867.
  • Charlotta of Lusignan and Caterina Cornaro, queens of Cyprus. Regensburg 1870.
  • Kristan von Mühlhausen, Bishop of Samland 1276–1295. Hall 1874.
  • Document book of the former free imperial city Mühlhausen in Thuringia. (as editor), Halle 1874.
  • Juan Ferrandez de Heredia. Grand Master of the Order of St. John (1377-1396). Mulhouse 1878.
  • Chronology of the Grand Masters of the Hospitaller Order during the Crusades. Berlin 1880.
  • Cyprian royal figures of the House of Lusignan. Hall 1881.
  • Document book of the Premonstratensian monastery Arnstein an der Lahn . Wiesbaden 1883.
  • Miscelles on the history of East Frisia. North 1883.
  • The island of Borkum in terms of cultural history. Emden 1886.

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SURNAME Herquet, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herquet, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1888
Place of death Osnabrück