Karl Siegl

Karl Siegl

Karl Siegl ( Carl Anton Siegl ; born November 6, 1851 in Sankt Joachimsthal , † August 18, 1943 in Eger ) was a historian, city archivist and museum director.

Life

Karl Siegl was born on November 6, 1851 as the son of master bricklayer Franz Siegl and his wife Elisabeth. Kraus was born in the house in Sankt Joachimsthal No. 144. His grandfather Josef Siegl came from Schönwald . On November 7, 1851, he was baptized Carl Anton Siegl.

As a graduate of the grammar school in Eger in western Bohemia, Karl Siegl studied law at the law faculty and was a student of history at the philosophical faculty of the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague . He received his doctorate in both rights and subsequently worked as an investigating judge at the district court in Eger.

His interest in history, especially historical source research and archival studies, enabled Karl Siegl to accept an offer from the City Council of Eger as city ​​archivist and museum director in 1895 . Eger, with its archives going back to the year 1280, needed new management. Karl Siegl became archive director and director of the city's museum until 1943.

As archive director, he brought the archives ' system of order, begun by the historian and city archivist Franz Kürschner (1840–1882) to a conclusion in the years 1865 to 1867, created registers and thus made the holdings of historical research accessible. In the museum of the city of Eger, housed in the historic, former Pachelbelhaus since 1873 , named after the mayor Wolf Adam Pachelbel von Gehag , who later became town house, who was expelled during the Counter Reformation in 1629 during the counter-reformation , he had the holdings sifted, sorted and catalog.

Karl Siegl advised the initiators of the Wallenstein Festival in Eger (in memory of Field Marshal Albrecht von Wallenstein ), a cultural event in the city and the surrounding Egerland . Karl Siegl published books and numerous articles from the holdings of the city archive on important or accessible facts and family stories about citizens of the city of Eger and surnames of the Egerland region, which were mainly published in the magazines "Mitteilungen des Verein der Geschichte der Deutschen in Böhmen" , "Unser Egerland ” and the “ Egerer Jahrbücher ”have been published. The holdings of the city archive and the museum of the city of Eger were preserved after his death and were looked after by Heribert Sturm . Siegl had the son of the same name, Karl Siegl, also a doctor of law and in 1924 director of the study library, later the university library in Klagenfurt in Austria.

Honors

• Karl Siegl was the holder of the Goethe Medal for Art and Science
• Honorary citizen of his hometown Sankt Joachimsthal

Publications (selection)

• Old wills of Cheb, 1899.
• The catalogs of the Eger City Archives, Eger 1900.
• Grave inscriptions in the Seeberg church , in: “Our Egerland” Volume 5, pages 10–20, 1901.
• Materials on the history of the Eger Latin School from 1592 to 1629. According to the documents of the Eger City Archives, Eger 1902.
• The excavations on the imperial castle in Eger (grave finds of a West Slavic, pre-Christian population), in: "Communications of the Association of the History of the Germans in Bohemia", 258, 1912.
• Sample book of the Egerland peasantry from the year 1395, in: "Our Egerland", year 22, Eger 1918.
• Eger and the Egerland through the ages, Eger 1931.
• Guide through the city museum, the imperial castle and other sights of Eger, Eger 1908.
• The Eger guild order. A contribution to the history of guilds, Prague 1905.
• Old Eger laws and ordinances, Augsburg and Kassel 1927.
• The Salbuch of the Cheb Poor Clares from 1476; Reprint of the magazine “Mitteilungen des Verein der Geschichte der Deutschen in Böhmen”; Prague 1905.
• The Eger Book of Eight from 1310 to 1390; in: “Communications of the Association of the History of Germans in Bohemia”, 39th year, Prague 1901;
• The founding of the church in Liebenstein in the Egerland, in: "Messages from the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia", 40th year, Prague 1902.
• The feud of Eger with the knight Jörg von Liebenstein. (Castle Liebenstein in 1509 a robber baron center on a trade route to Eger).
• Book of Eight II of the Cheb jury from 1391 to 1668, in: "Communications of the Association of the History of Germans in Bohemia", 41st year 1903.
• The Eger guild order. A contribution to the history of the guild system; Prague 1909.
• From the council files of the Cheb City Archives; Eger 1922, reprint from “Our Egerland”, “Journal for Homeland Exploration and Homeland Care”, published by the writer and folklore researcher Alois John , city archivist of Franzensbad .
• The Egerland at the time of the pledge; Eger 1922.
• A burning of the Jews at Eger in 1485; in: "Our Egerland", 1923.
• An allegedly Czech copy of the Eger Council from 1592 in the town archive of Rakonitz , in: "Our Egerland", 7th and 8th issue, 1923.
• Letters of indulgence in the city archive of Eger; 1927.
• The Egerer Antependium in “Our Egerland”, 33, pages 80–81, 1929.
• The oldest parish inventories of the Niklas Church in Eger (beginning around the year 1290 AD), in: "Yearbook of the Association of the History of Germans in Bohemia"; 2/1929.
• The oldest family names in Eger, in the journal "Sudetendeutsche Familienforschung", 3rd year 1931–1939.
• The history of the Brusch family in Cheb, with special reference to the humanist Kaspar Brusch and his cousin Balthasar Brusch , in: "Messages from the Association of the History of Germans in Bohemia", born in 1931.
• The Egerer Landsteuererbuch from the year 1392 with the oldest personal names in the villages of the Egerland, in the journal "Sudetendeutsche Familienforschung", 2nd year 1928–1930.
• Wallenstein's murderer fights for his blood wages - according to letters and files from the Vienna Court Chamber.
• The Wallenstein Festival in Eger. Festschrift on the occasion of its revival on July 29 and 30, 1911.
• The St. Klarastift from its foundation in the 13th century to the present, in: "Egerer Zeitung", May 16, 1923, no. 110.
• The execution of a repentant criminal. From the chronicle of the Eger executioner Karl Huss , in: "Our Egerland", 1924.
• The Joachimsthaler Chronik from 1516-1517, in the introduction a life story of Johannes Mathesius , in: "Unser Egerland", 3, 1923/1924.
• Contributions to the history of Pfraumberg from the Eger city archive, in: "Our Egerland" 29, page 81, 1925.
• The Egerer Goldbulle , in: "Our Egerland", 34, pages 69–72, 1930.
• Balthasar Neumann , baroque master builder. in: “Our Egerland”, pages 74–89, 1932.
• The Egerer Volkstag from 1897, special print from the "Mitteilungen des Verein Vogtlandische Geschichte und Altertumskunde zu Plauen eV", 42nd annual publication for the years 1939 and 1940.

literature

• Eger homeland - history of a German landscape in documentaries and memories. Published by the Egerer Landtag e. V. Amberg 1981.
• Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum by Heribert Sturm , Volume 2, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1984.
• Monuments in the Egerland - Documentation of a German cultural landscape between Bavaria and Bohemia, published by Lorenz Schreiner , Amberg in der Oberpfalz 2004.
• Cheb Museum - Czechoslovakia, publisher: Cheb Museum Workers' Collective. 1979.
• Ch. Mentschl, R. Winter:  Siegl, Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 242.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Siegl in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni, Jáchymov No. 08, p. 162 f.
2. ↑ Handbook of German historical book collections in Europe: Czech Republic. Böhmen , Georg Olms Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-487-10356-7 , page 65 [1]