Konrad Schottmüller

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Konrad Schottmüller , actually Waldemar Conrad Schottmüller , (born September 23, 1841 in Berlin ; † May 16, 1893 ibid) was a German historian . He was the founder and first secretary of the Prussian Historical Station in Rome .

Life

After graduating from high school, he studied history and economics in Göttingen and Berlin , and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1868 . From 1870 he was a teacher, from 1878 professor at the Hauptkadettenanstalt in Berlin . From 1888 to 1890 he was the first secretary of the Prussian Historical Station in Rome . In 1889 he became a librarian at the Royal Library in Berlin, but was further seconded to Rome. In 1889 he became a laborer, in 1891 he was a lecturer at the Ministry of Culture in Berlin.

In 1876 he was admitted to the Berlin Freemason Lodge Friedrich Wilhelm zur Morgenröthe . He was the author of a study on the Knights Templar and a two-volume work "The Fall of the Knights Templar with documentary and critical contributions" (1887). These investigations prompted the Grand State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany in 1888 to rethink the Masonic Templar tradition of their system.

He was a member of the Germania Berlin fraternity

family

He was married on April 29, 1870 to Emma Wittich, who came from a Berlin publishing family. This marriage resulted in two children, the archivist Kurt Schottmüller (1871-1918) and the art historian Frida Schottmüller (1872-1936). He was the grandfather of the artist Oda Schottmüller (1905–1943).

Fonts (selection)

  • The emergence of the ancestral duchy of Bavaria at the end of the Carolingian period . Dissertation Berlin 1868.
  • Fehrbellin . Berlin 1875.
  • Report on archival research into the history and trial of the Templar Order . In: Meeting reports of the Kgl. Prussian Academy of Sciences , 1886, pp. 1019-1042 ( digitized version ).
  • The fall of the Knights Templar . 2 volumes. Mittler, Berlin 1887 ( digitized volume 1 , volume 2 ).

literature

  • Wilhelm Faber : Memorial speech at the coffin of the immortalized Dr. Konrad Schottmüller, secret government councilor and lecturing council in the Ministry of Culture, passed away on May 16, buried on May 19, 1893 . Mittler, Berlin 1893.
  • Karl Bader: Lexicon of German librarians in the main and part-time positions with princes, states and cities (= Central Journal for Libraries, Supplement 55). Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1925. p. 235.
  • Geertje Andresen: The dancer, sculptor and Nazi opponent Oda Schottmüller (1905–1943) . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-58-9 , pp. 26-27.

Individual evidence

  1. Berlin III registry office, death register no. 592/1893. State Archives Berlin.
  2. Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon. Revised and expanded new edition. FA Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3 , p. 758 .
  3. ^ Address directory of the old men of the Berlin fraternity "GERMANIA" (EV). Edition S.-S. 1911, p. 11.