Lexicon of all scholars who have lived in Bremen since the Reformation

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The lexicon of all scholars who have lived in Bremen since the Reformation with the addition "along with news from bored Bremers who held positions of honor in other countries" is a lexicon of personalities in the Hanseatic city of Bremen who worked in the period from the Reformation to the second decade 19th century

  • worked as a writer in Bremen, worked as scholars or had a scientific or academic education,
  • those who were born in Bremen, but held "honorary positions in other countries", thus held an office "which was associated with honor and dignity ", especially honorary positions .

The text in two volumes, written by the preacher Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund , who worked at Bremen Cathedral , was published in 1818 by Carl Schünemann's publishing house .

Rotermund himself described his selection in his “ preliminary report ”: “I finally decided to take in all and those who have lived in our city for 300 years as authorities , legal scholars , doctors , preachers , professors and schoolmen , some of them I thought it was appropriate To mention artists and citizens who made themselves known through writings . "

The Bremen Bureau for Cultural and Religious History (BBKR), a free association of independent historians and religious scholars, judged the lexicon of all scholars as follows: “The lexicon of all scholars offers the most important information on all the main protagonists of Bremen's intellectual life in condensed form Reformation up to the Enlightenment. Until today it is an indispensable starting point for biographical and literature research. "

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek names Rotermunds Lexicon in the data record on his person in the database of Niedersächsische Personen as the first of two of his "important personal dictionaries " - before Rotermund's 1823 book Das schehre Hannover or Lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and Artists ... The Leibniz Library also lists both lexicons for its personal database in its list of abbreviations of the biographical sources used .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the online digital copies of the two volumes via Gateway Bavaria
  2. ^ Johann Christoph Adelung : Ehrenstelle, die in ders .: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect , Volume 1, Leipzig: Verlag Breitkopf & Sohn, 1793, p. 1656 (via zeno.org )
  3. ↑ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: preliminary report , in ders. Lexicon of all scholars ... , vol. 1, pp. III – VIII; here: S. VIf .; Digitized
  4. ↑ o. V .: Quellenmaterial / Rotermunds Lexikon aller Gelehrten / Two volumes, 1818 on the page bbkr.de [ undated ], last accessed on June 10, 2019
  5. ↑ n.v . : Rotermund, Heinrich Wilhelm in the database of Lower Saxony Persons of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of March 3, 2011, last accessed on June 10, 2019
  6. ↑ Compare the directory on the gwlb.de page