Karl Wilhelmi

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Karl Wilhelmi

Johann David Karl Wilhelmi (born March 17, 1786 in Heidelberg ; † April 8, 1857 in Sinsheim ) was a German Protestant pastor and is considered to be one of the founders of antiquity research in southwest Germany.

Life

Karl Wilhelmi was born in Heidelberg in 1786, where his parents, a pastor couple from Odernheim am Glan, had fled to their maternal grandparents during the Revolutionary Wars. The family came to Hilsbach in 1798 , Karl and his twin brother Heinrich Friedrich (1786–1860) attended grammar school in Heidelberg, where they studied Protestant theology from 1804 and were subsequently vicars in various places in the Electoral Palatinate . After being in Ziegelhausen , Kirchheim , Weinheim and in Sinsheim in 1809, Karl came to Dilsberg in 1811 and married the daughter of the pastor and church councilor of Mauer , Wilhelmina Wittich, with whom he had eight children on March 31 of the same year two died early. In 1819 Wilhelmi returned to Sinsheim as a pastor , where he promoted the unification of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches in Baden to form the United Evangelical-Protestant Church until 1821. In 1846 he became dean .

From 1825 he wrote numerous writings on theological and historical questions. In Sinsheim he had fourteen prehistoric burial mounds opened in 1827 and in 1830 he founded the Sinsheim Society for the Study of Patriotic Monuments of Prehistoric Times , of which he was the first chairman. The Sinsheimer Stadtmuseum goes back to the Sinsheimer Antiquarium which he founded around 1831 . He was also a member of around 40 other societies and orders, in 1844 he became honorary chairman of the antiquity society for the Grand Duchy of Baden .

After the death of his first wife, he was married to Amalia Fröhner from Stuttgart from 1852. In 1856 he retired due to illness and died on April 8, 1857. He was buried in Sinsheim. After his death, his library went to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, where it was kept separately as the Wilhelmi Library for a few years before it was incorporated into the general collection at the end of the 19th century.

In Sinsheim, Karl-Wilhelmi-Strasse and Wilhelmi-Gymnasium are named after him. Since 1969, the city of Sinsheim has also been awarding the Karl Wilhelmi honorary coin to people who have made special contributions to the city of Sinsheim and its citizens.

Publications (selection)

  • Description of the fourteen old German Todtenhügel which were opened in the years 1827 and 1828 near Sinsheim in the Neckar district of the Grand Duke of Baden. Heidelberg 1830 ( archive.org ).
  • Description of the German Todtenhügel near Wiesenthal. Sinsheim 1838.
  • Iceland, Hvitramannaland, Greenland and Vinland or the Norrmann life on Iceland and Greenland and their trips to America already over 500 years before Columbus; especially based on old Scandinavian source scripts for educated readers. Mohr, Heidelberg 1842 (reprinted unchanged. Amsterdam: Meridian Publishing 1967).
  • The burial monuments of the Burgundians, Franks and Alemanni. From the first times of Christianity. First edition. of the posthumous work. Edited by Klaus Eckerle on behalf of the Friends of Sinsheimer Geschichte eV, the Heimatverein Kraichgau eV and the city of Sinsheim. Sinsheim 1986, ISBN 3-89735-183-8 .

literature

  • Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelmi: sheets of memory of Johann David Karl Wilhelmi. Sketch of a character and life picture of the [on April 8, 1857 in Sinsheim] completed. Mohr, Heidelberg 1857 ( digitized version ).
  • Ernst Wahle : Karl Wilhelmi as the founder of antiquity research in southern Germany. In: New Heidelberg Yearbooks. 1933, pp. 1-88.
  • Rainer Braun: Early research on the Upper German Limes in Baden-Württemberg. Württembergisches Landesmuseum et al., Stuttgart 1991, p. 133 and p. 101, fig. 54.
  • Frans Hermans: Johann David Carl Wilhelmi. Evangelical Reformed pastor in Dilsberg (1811–1819). Heidelberger Verlags-Anstalt, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-89426-041-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Wilhelmi: Description of the fourteen old German death hills which were opened in the years 1827 and 1828 at Sinsheim in the Neckar district of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Heidelberg 1830.
  2. ↑ Irmela Holtmeier (edit.): Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany. Volume 12: Bayern I – R. Olms-Weidemann, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 3-487-09586-6 , p. 157.
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelmi, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilhelmi, Johann David Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1857
Place of death Sinsheim