Karl Ludwig Grotefend

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Karl Grotefend (full name Karl Ludwig Grotefend ; also: Carl Ludwig Grotefend (born December 22, 1807 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 27, 1874 in Hanover )) was a German historian , pedagogue , archivist and numismatist .

Life

Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens and Grotefend in medallions above the wood engraving “The feast of the philologists in the Odeon in Hanover”,
colored wood engraving from the EHXA workshop after August Klemme , around 1870

family

Carl Ludwig Grotefend was the son of the orientalist and linguist Georg Friedrich Grotefend and father of the historian Hermann Grotefend .

Career

Grotefend first attended the Frankfurt grammar school in his hometown , and - after his father had moved to Hanover - from 1821 the Hanover Lyceum , where he wrote his Abitur paper, which dealt with the history of the Roman legions . He then studied mainly the “classical” ancient sciences and oriental languages at the university there in Göttingen . In consequence of his dissertation De demis immersive Pagis Atticae Disquisitio he was in April 1829 Dr. phil. doctorate and was given in the summer of the same year his first job at the high school Andreanum to Hildesheim .

A few years later exchanged Grotefend in 1833 his Hildesheim position at first against a Collaboratur on the run by his father Hanover Lyceum, where he was appointed Subkonrektor 1844 and to full professor of Untersecunda rise.

From 1850 Grotefend managed the publications of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony together with Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Blumenbach and Adolf Schaumann , and also published his own articles in its magazine .

In 1853 Karl Grotefend resigned from his teaching career and began his work at the Royal Hanover Archive, initially as the first archive secretary , after he had previously published a number of publications, mainly from the field of classical studies and numismatics. At the same time he joined the archive, he was appointed head of the coin cabinet .

In 1862 Grotefend, who published a number of monographs on the history of Lower Saxony, was appointed archivist first, and in 1868 he was appointed state archivist to succeed Adolf Schaumann. Finally, in 1871, he was made a secret archivist .

The “Conservateur des Kgl. Münzkabinetts “was awarded the Golden Medal of Honor for Art and Science for 1866 according to the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover .

After a short illness, Karl Grotefend died in Hanover on October 27, 1874, during the early founding of the German Empire at the age of 67.

Publications (selection)

  • De demis sive pagis Atticae disquisitio. Typis Dieterichianis, Göttingen 1829, (dissertation; digitized ).
  • The coins of the Greek, Parthian and Indoskythian kings of Bactria and the countries on the Indus. Hahn, Hanover 1839, ( digitized version ).
  • History of book printing in the Hanover and Braunschweig countries. Published by FGH Culemann . Hahn, Hanover 1840, ( digitized version ).
  • Directory of the manuscripts and incunabula of the city library of Hanover. an, Hanover 1844, ( digitized version ).
  • Incunabula collection by FGH Culemann. sn, Hanover 1844, ( digitized ).
  • The first print shop in Münden. In: Archives of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. New series 1849, ISSN  0179-0641 , pp. 407-408 , (concerns the Andreas Grimmen printing works ).
  • as editor with Georg Friedrich Fiedeler: Document book of the city of Hanover. Part 1: From the origin to 1369 (= document book of the historical association for Lower Saxony. H. 5). Hahn, Hannover 1860 ( digitized version ; reprint: Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1975, ISBN 3-511-00418-7 ).
  • Bernhard Hohmeister's notes on the history of the city of Hanover. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. 1860, ISSN  0179-0633 , pp. 193-245 .
  • Imperium Romanum tributim descriptum. The geographical distribution of the Roman tribes throughout the Roman Empire. Hahn, Hanover 1863, ( digitized version ).
  • The stamp of the Roman ophthalmologists. Hahn, Hanover 1867, ( digitized version ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Ludwig Grotefend  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Karl Ludwig Grotefend  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i Hermann GrotefendGrotefend, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 765 f.
  2. oV : Grotefend, Karl Ludwig in the database of Niedersächsische Personen of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of March 12, 2012, last accessed on February 16, 2018.
  3. a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Grotefend, (1) Carl Ludwig. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 137; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. Compare the digitized version of the bound first edition on the website of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)
  5. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : Medal of Honor for Art and Science. In: Hanover Archive . Sheet K 34