Robert Klempin

Karl Robert Klempin

Karl Robert Klempin (born November 19, 1816 in Swinoujscie , † April 29, 1874 in Stettin ) was a German historian.

Life

The Swinemünde merchant's son Robert Klempin attended the Jageteufel College in Stettin from 1832 to 1836 . From 1838 he studied philosophy , literature and history at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . Leopold von Ranke counted him among his most promising students. After a final semester at the University of Greifswald , he received his doctorate on March 26, 1845 in Berlin . In the same year he became a private lecturer in Greifswald .

Because of a serious nervous problem, he had to end his academic career in 1848. Only at the end of 1852 did he go public again with historical lectures in small groups in Stettin. In 1855 he was first temporarily entrusted with the management of the Pomeranian Provincial Archives in Stettin from January 1, 1857 .

From 1869, his eyesight deteriorated so that he had to rely on help with his work. Contemporaries described Robert Klempin as shy, and after his illness as almost shy of people. He avoided appearing in public as far as possible, remained unmarried, but had a small circle of friends. Because of his reserved manner, he was hardly known outside of the specialist community. In 1874 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class.

Robert Klempin published individual writings and numerous essays on the history of Pomerania.

Fonts (selection)

• The biographies of Bishop Otto and their authors . In: Baltic Studies IX
• The location of Jomsburg . In: Baltic Studies XIII
• Diplomatic contributions to the history of Pomerania from the time of Bogislaw X. Bath, Berlin 1859, 629 pages, with studies on the history of Pomeranian coins ( e-copy ).
• with Gustav Kratz : registers and registers of the Pomeranian knighthood from 14th to 19th Century . Bath, Berlin 1863, 748 pages ( e-copy ).
• Foreword to: Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania . Berlin 1865, 546 pages ( e-copy ).
• The exemption of the diocese of Cammin . 1869

A work on the Pomeranian nobility remained unfinished. Of his six-volume main work Pommersches Urkundenbuch , he only saw the publication of the

• 1st section, 1st volume: 786–1253. Regests, corrections and additions to the Codex Pomeraniae diplomaticus von Hasselbach and Kosegarten . Stettin 1868 ( e-copy ).

All six volumes can be viewed electronically at the Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library:

• Pomeranian document book . Volumes 1-6, Stettin 1868-1906 ( E-copy ).

The family tables for the genealogy of the Greifenhaus developed by Klempin were only published by Gottfried von Bülow after his death:

• Family tables of the Pommersch-Rügischen Princely House and its subsidiary lines, from the estate of R. Klempin given for printing by G. v. Bülow. Szczecin 1876.

literature

• Gottfried von Bülow :  Klempin, Robert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 154 f.
• Erich Randt : Klempin, Karl Robert . In: Adolf Hofmeister , Erich Randt and Martin Wehrmann (ed.): Pommersche Lebensbilder . Volume I: Pomerania of the 19th and 20th centuries (publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania ). Stettin 1934, pp. 176-189.

Web links

• Works by Robert Klempin in the state bibliography MV