Karl Peter Faber

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Karl Peter Andreas Faber (born August 12, 1773 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † January 19, 1853 ibid) was a German archivist and historian.

Life

Karl Faber attended the German reformed school and studied from 1790 at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1793 he became an auscultator in the government (Higher Regional Court). In 1795 Faber became secret secretary at the budget ministry and second secret archivist at the Prussian State Archives in Königsberg , and in 1804 expediting secretary at the War and Domain Chamber. 1806 Faber was summoned to the Russian military hospital administration and to negotiate with the French authorities, he accompanied her to the Treaty of Tilsit the Count Alexander Dohna to Elbing .

In 1808 Faber got his first position as archivist. He tried to organize the older holdings of the archive and published important scientific articles from them in the “Prussian Archive”, which was printed at his own expense. In the war years 1812-1815 Faber was used again in the War and Domain Chamber. Only after the war was he able to devote himself entirely to the archive. As a part-time job, Faber was appointed third and second librarian in the university library in 1818.

In his work as archivist he made significant contributions to the scientific exploitation of the archive. By publishing Luther's (1811) and Melanchthon (1817) letters to Duke Albrecht , he emphasized the importance of the Reformation for intellectual life in Prussia. His essays on Prussian history and the history of individual cities in East Prussia and West Prussia ( Thorn , Elbing , Prussisch Holland , Pillau and many others) as well as in particular his “Taschenbuch für Königsberg” (1829) and his work “Die Haupt- and royal seat of Königsberg ”(1841).

In 1844 he received the title of archivist. As such, he was retired in 1848, but Faber kept the librarianship until his death.

Honors

Works

  • Letters from Luther to Duke Albrecht (1811).
  • Paperback for Königsberg (1829).
  • The capital and royal seat of Königsberg (1841).

literature

  • Old Prussian biography , p. 172
  • Julius Nicolaus Weisfert, biographical-literary lexicon for the capital and royal seat of Königsberg and East Prussia . Königsberg 1897, p. 60. 2. Reprint Hildesheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-487-30125-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, p. 80
personal data
SURNAME Faber, Karl Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faber, Karl Peter Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1853
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)