Konrad Kupfer

Konrad Kupfer

Konrad Kupfer (born September 13, 1883 in Thurn near Heroldsbach , District Office Forchheim ; † September 20, 1965 in Forchheim ) was a German high school teacher and local researcher from Upper Franconia .

life and work

Konrad Kupfer was the son of the master baker and innkeeper Andreas Kupfer and grew up in Hausen (near Forchheim) . He attended the old grammar school in Bamberg up to the Abitur in 1903. He then studied two semesters at the Lyceum in Bamberg , five semesters at the University of Erlangen and one semester at the University of Munich . In 1907 he passed the state examination in German, history and geography. He became a teaching trainee at a secondary school in Munich, in 1909 assistant at a secondary school in Neuburg an der Donau , and in 1913 a teacher at the secondary school in Zweibrücken . In addition, he continued to deal with art history and received his doctorate in 1914 at the University of Erlangen under Friedrich Haack with a dissertation on the Upper Franconian sculptor Friedrich Theiler . He later became a grammar school teacher in Nuremberg, and after 1945 director of the grammar school in Forchheim .

In addition to his work as a teacher, he dealt with the local history of his Upper Franconian homeland, especially of Forchheim and Horben , and was honorary director of the Palatinate Museum in Forchheim from 1951 until his death .

In 1952 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. In 1957 he became an honorary citizen of Hausen, where the Kupferstrasse is named after him. On December 13, 1959, he became an honorary citizen of Forchheim.

Publications (selection)

• Life and works of the sculptor Friedrich Theiler from Ebermannstadt. Erlangen 1916 (dissertation, archive.org ).
• The sculptor Friedrich Theiber from Ebermannstadt and the Mutschelle family of artists (= contributions to Franconian art history. 7). Blaesing, Erlangen 1917 (extended version of the dissertation).
• The picture collecting. The creation of a cheap house painting as a counterpart to the house library. Hachmeister & Thal, Leipzig 1920.
• For Upper Franconian folklore and antiquity (= Franconian library. 3). C. Gießel, Bayreuth 1926.
• Explanations on Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer" (= Schöningh's explanatory writings on German and foreign writers. 33). F. Schöningh, Paderborn 1928.
• The parish church of St. Wolfgang zu Hausen near Forchheim (= Bamberger Hefte for Franconian art and history. 12). St. Otto-Verlag, Bamberg 1930.
• The Franconian water paddle wheels. A contribution to the history of technology, meadow culture and folklore. Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1931.
• Basic concepts and points of view for understanding history, literature and geography and as an aid for the German essay. Buchners Verlag, Bamberg 1932.
• Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the institution. Grammar school with secondary school Forchheim 1899–1949. Forchheim 1949
• A century of foils from Forchheim. 100 years of Folienfabrik Forchheim GmbH 1854–1954. Festschrift. Forchheim 1954.
• Youth in Forchheimer Land. Memories. Spindler, Nuremberg 1955.
• Sankt Martin Parish Forchheim, Upper Franconia. Church and congregation. Libertas Verlag für Kirche und Heimat, Erolzheim 1955.
• History of the village of Hausen near Forchheim, Obfr. Streit, Forchheim 1956 (reprint: Gürtler, Forchheim / Ofr. 1985, OCLC 633506168 ).
• On the former natural economy in rural and bourgeois life. Spindler, Nuremberg 1958.
• Forchheim, history of an old Franconian town. Spindler, Nürnberg 1960. 2nd edition 1987. 4th edition 1998, ISBN 3-88929-068-X .
• Cheerful old Franconian stories. Spindler, Nuremberg 1964.

literature

• Max Schleifer: Dr. Konrad Kupfer, a servant of the homeland. In: Franconia. NF 20, 1968, p. 211 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Writings by Konrad Kupfer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Writings by Konrad Kupfer in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Estate in the Hausen Village Museum at the Bavarian Literature Portal