Karl Rossel

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Karl Rossel's grave in the old cemetery in Wiesbaden

Johann Heinrich Karl Rossel (born December 10, 1815 in Wiesbaden , † July 2, 1872 in Wiesbaden) was a Nassau historian , teacher and local politician . As the long-time secretary of the Association for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research, he particularly shaped research into the history of the city of Wiesbaden and its surroundings. In particular , he brought the Eberbach monastery back to historical awareness.

Life

Karl Rossel was born into a Wiesbaden civil servant family. After attending the Weilburg grammar school , he studied theology and philosophy from 1834 to 1837 at the University of Göttingen , which functions as the Nassau state university . He finished his studies with the degree of doctor of philosophy, which he obtained with the font De philosophia Socratis .

After graduating, he worked as a teacher at the Wiesbaden Pedagogy until 1846. He then moved to the Dillenburg Pedagogy , whose Vice-Rector he was appointed in 1848. Already at this time he organized the first archaeological excavations on the ruins of the Dillenburg Castle . During the March Revolution he developed into a representative of the radical liberals . This led to his dismissal from school in 1850. Rossel then moved to his hometown Wiesbaden and became a private teacher at the local business school.

In 1851, Karl Rossel was elected secretary of the Nassau Classical and Historical Research Association. With one interruption, Rossel kept the office until 1862. In this role he was responsible for the publication of the Nassau Annals . Rossel took over the office from long-time chairman Friedrich Gustav Habel , who then left the association. The cause was the dispute in the association between Habel and Friedrich Traugott Friedemann about the importance of the Middle Ages and the early modern period in historical research.

From 1856 Karl Rossel also took over the honorary management of the Wiesbaden Museum . Two years later (1858) he was employed by the Nassau State Library as library secretary so that he could devote himself entirely to the work in the museum. The museum was subordinate to the state library. As the museum's curator , he campaigned for monument protection in the Duchy of Nassau and organized archaeological excavations. In addition to his work for the museum, Karl Rossel was a member of the Wiesbaden city council for several years.

After his retirement in 1866, he took over the management of the Idstein State Archives (today Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden). In Idstein , Karl Rossel also participated in the initiation of the local building school, a forerunner of today's RheinMain University .

After the Franco-Prussian War , Karl Rossel took over the rebuilding of the library at the University of Strasbourg in 1870/71 .

Rossel found his final resting place in the old cemetery in Wiesbaden.

Honors

In 1906 the city of Wiesbaden named Rosselstrasse in the north-east district after him .

Works

Tomb donated by Rossel in 1845 for Franz von Sickingen. Sauerthal cemetery
  • The ecclesiastical antiquities of Wiesbaden, especially the parish church of the h. Mauritius . Wiesbaden 1852
  • The Eberbach Abbey in the Rheingau: 1. the refectorium . Wiesbaden 1857
  • The parish church of S. Severus in Bopard . Wiesbaden 1861
  • The city coat of arms of Wiesbaden . Wiesbaden 1861
  • The Eberbach Abbey in the Rheingau: 2. the church . Wiesbaden 1862
  • Wiesbaden and its surroundings: a guide for strangers . Wiesbaden 1862
  • Document book of the Eberbach Abbey in the Rheingau . Volume 1, Wiesbaden 1862 ( digitized at the MDZ); Volume 2, 1st department Wiesbaden 1865, Volume 2, 2nd department 1870 ( digitized volume 2,1-2 at the MDZ)
  • The Pfahlgraben-Castell Salburg near Homburg vd H. Wiesbaden 1871
  • The Roman border defense in the Taunus Wiesbaden 1872

Furthermore he was editor of: Hermann Bär : Diplomatic history of the Eberbach Abbey in the Rheingau . Wiesbaden 1862 and wrote numerous articles of his own for the Nassau Annals.

literature

  • Friedrich Otto :  Rossel, JH Karl L. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 254-256.
  • Pupil, Winfried: to preserve, to experience, to understand, 200 years of the association for Nassau antiquity and historical research . Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815190-1-3 , p. 60-71 .
  • Renkhoff, Otto : Nassau biography . Historical Commission for Nassau , Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 659 .
  • Zais, Ernst : Nekrolog for JH Karl L. Rossel . Rheinischer Kurier No. 264, 1872.
  • Sigrid Russ: Cultural monuments in Hessen Wiesbaden II - The villa areas . Vieweg, Wiesbaden, 1996, ISBN 3-528-16236-8 , pp. 301 .
  • Neese, Bernd: Dr. Karl Rossel (1815–1872). In: Heimatjahrbuch für das Land an der Dill im Lahn-Dill-Kreis 1998, pp. 33–40 (with illustration).

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ^ Title page at google books
  2. ^ Albert Herrmann: Graves of famous people who have become known in public life in the Wiesbaden cemeteries, Verlag Schellenberg, Wiesbaden 1928
personal data
SURNAME Rossel, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rossel, Carl; Rossel, Johann Heinrich Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nassau historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1872
Place of death Wiesbaden