Konstantin Höhlbaum

Konstantin Johann Matthias Höhlbaum (born September 26th ^July / October 8th 1849 ^greg. In Reval ; † May 2nd 1904 in Gießen ) was an archivist from Cologne , historian in Gießen and employee of the Hanseatic Document Book .

Life

Höhlbaum received his doctorate in 1873 as a student of Georg Waitz in Göttingen with a thesis on Livonian source studies of the 14th century. Because of his knowledge of the history of the Hanseatic League , he was appointed city archivist at the Historical Archives of Cologne in 1880 to succeed Leonard Ennen , where he stayed until 1890. In 1882 he made a contribution to the establishment of the " Society for Rhenish History "; In 1888 he contributed significantly to the establishment of the Cologne City Museum. He edited the "communications from the city archive of Cologne" and parts of the Hanseatic document book. His magnum opus was to become the partial edition of the notes of the Cologne lawyer Hermann von Weinsberg (1518–1597) in 1886 ; he was unable to complete it, however, as he was appointed to a professorship in Giessen in 1890, which he held until his death. In 1889 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Act

The phase of his research was focused on the sources of his Baltic homeland. He tried to reconstruct the rhyming chronicle of the Teutonic Order Brother Bartholomäus Hoeneke , which has not survived in any manuscript . The basis was the indirect transmission through the chronicle of the Bremen notary and historiographer Johann Renner , who died around 1583. Höhlbaum has this chronicle after the second edition of 1582 after the manuscript of the State and University Library Bremen Ms. a. 17 edited together with Richard Hausmann and in the introduction there is a detailed reference to the source text by Bartholomäus Hoeneke contained therein. Later Höhlbaum turned to the Hanseatic and Cologne history. Even if his reconstruction of the Hoeneke Chronicle was largely speculative and fraught with question marks, Höhlbaum was undoubtedly familiar with the most modern methodology of source criticism of the time and made great contributions to the development of sources from the late Middle Ages and the 16th century.

Fonts

"Joh. Renner's Livländische Historien and the more recent Livonian rhyming chronicle ”, Inaugural dissertation for the achievement of the philosophical doctorate at the University of Göttingen, by Johann Matthias Konstantin Höhlbaum, Göttingen 1872
"The younger Livonian rhyming chronicle of Bartholomäus Hoeneke", Leipzig 1872
"Contributions to the source study of Old Livonia", Dorpat 1873
“Johann Renner's Livonian Histories”, ed. v. Richard Hausmann and Konstantin Höhlbaum, Göttingen 1876
"Analects on Prussian history of the 14th century", in: Altpreußische Monatsschrift 16 (1879), pp. 301–313
"The Annals of Dünamünde", in: New archive of the society for older German history 8 (1883), pp. 612–615
“Handwriting on the history of Cologne”, in: New archive of the Society for Older German History 9 (1884), pp. 221–224
“Vicelin and his biographers”, in: Research on German History 17 (1877), pp. 209–229
"The twelve articles of the farmer from 1525 Low German", in: Forschungsungen zur Deutschen Geschichte 17 (1877), pp. 345–351
"Hoeneke, Bartholomäus", in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Leipzig 1881, p. 70.
"Statements and judgments about the Cologne revolt of 1525", in: Mitteilungen aus dem Stadtarchiv von Köln 21 (1892), pp. 45–64
“The book Weinsberg. Cologne Memorabilia from the 16th Century ”, first volume, arr. by K. Höhlbaum (publications by the Society for Rhenish History 3) Leipzig 1886 (reprint Düsseldorf 2000)
“Inventories of Hanseatic archives from the 16th century. 1. Cologne Inventory ”, Vol. 1–2, Cologne 1896–1903
“The spa association of Rense i. J. 1338 ", presented at the session on October 31, 1903, Berlin: 1903 (Treatises of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen. Philological-hist. Class. NF 7.3)
"Regests of the Archbishops of Mainz", 1897

literature

Meyers Lexikon 7th edition, vol. 5, Leipzig 1926, col. 1690

Web links

Wikisource: Konstantin Hoehlbaum - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the Nikolaikirche in Reval (Estonian: Tallinna Niguliste kirik)
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 117.

personal data
SURNAME	Höhlbaum, Konstantin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Höhlbaum, Konstantin Johann Matthias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 8, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reval
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 1904
Place of death	to water

[1] Entry in the baptismal register of the Nikolaikirche in Reval (Estonian: Tallinna Niguliste kirik)

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 117.