Klemens Löffler

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Klemens Löffler (born January 30, 1881 in Steinbach , Eichsfeld , † March 17, 1933 in Cologne ) was a German historian and librarian . One focus of his work was church history.

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Löffler was born the son of a farmer and attended elementary school in Steinbach, the episcopal rectorate school in Duderstadt and the state Catholic high school in Heiligenstadt, where he graduated from high school. He studied history, geography and German philology in Freiburg i. Br., Munich, Münster, where Aloys Meister was his teacher, and Göttingen. During his studies in 1899 he became a member of the KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau and the VKDSt Saxonia Münster . In 1903 he was at the University of Halle Dr. phil. obtained his doctorate and worked briefly as a high school teacher in Schwetz and Graudenz . In 1903 he joined the higher library service as a trainee at the Münster University Library, went to the Göttingen University Library in 1904 , passed the specialist examination as a librarian in 1905 and became assistant librarian at the Berlin State Library in 1906 . In 1908 he became a librarian at the Wroclaw University Library and in 1909 at the Münster University Library. In May 1914 he was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . In 1918 he was awarded the title of professor. On July 1, 1918, he became director of the Cologne City Library , which he expanded into a university and city library from 1919 after the University of Cologne was founded .

His papal story , first published in 1911 and expanded in 1933 with a part by Franz Xaver Seppelt , was very popular right up until the Second World War. His work on the so-called Anabaptists of Münster is still regarded as a standard work today .

Throughout his life he remained very attached to his homeland, the Eichsfeld , so he was around 1906 a. a. with Konrad Hentrich founder of the Association for Eichsfeldische Heimatkunde and its first chairman.

In 1910 he married the pianist Maria Wöhning and had two daughters. The photographer Annelise Löffler (1914–2000) was his daughter.

Löffler died completely unexpectedly in 1933. He is buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne.

Publications (selection)

  • The Westphalian bishops in the investiture dispute and in the Saxon Wars under Heinrich IV. And Heinrich V. Schöningh, Paderborn 1903 (= dissertation Halle 1903, digitized ).
  • Papal history from the French Revolution to the present . Kösel, Kempten, Munich 1911.
  • German monastery libraries. 1922.
  • The Anabaptists in Munster 1534/35. Reports, statements and files from eyewitnesses and contemporaries. Diederichs, Jena 1923.
  • Festschrift for the three hundred and fifty year anniversary of the state high school in Heiligenstadt . On behalf of the former students and in connection with ... published by Klemens Löffler. Gymnasium, Heiligenstadt 1925.
  • with Franz Xaver Seppelt: Papal history from the beginning to the present. Kösel Pustet, Munich 1933 ( archive.org ).

literature

  • Peter Anhalt: See our home as it is. Klemens Löffler - a biographical documentation. Edited by the Association for Eichsfeldische Heimatkunde. Duderstadt 2003, 88 pages. With reprint: Klemens Löffler: The Hülfensberg in Eichsfelde a Bonifatiusstätte? Duderstadt 1925, 94 pages. ISBN 3-936617-07-4 [1] .
  • Severin Corsten: The first years. The University and City Library of Cologne under Klemens Löffler. In: Books for Science. Festschrift for Günter Gattermann on his 65th birthday. Saur, Munich et al. 1994, ISBN 3-598-11205-X , pp. 159-177.
  • Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 (= Journal for Libraries and Bibliography . Special Issue 42). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 200.
  • Löffler, Klemens , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 201-202.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Complete list of CV 1925, p. 207.
  2. ↑ Complete list of CV 1925, p. 530.
  3. ↑ Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift , March 2013, p. 11 .
personal data
SURNAME Löffler, Klemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinbach , Eichsfeld
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1933
Place of death Cologne