Ludwig Denecke

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Ludwig Denecke (born February 26, 1905 in Hameln , † September 12, 1996 in Hann. Münden ) was a German specialist in German studies and manuscript librarian.

Life

Denecke grew up in Hanover . From 1914 to 1923 he attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium Herford, which his father ran . After graduating from high school in Halle (Saale) , he studied German , classical philology , history and archeology at the Friedrichs-Universität Halle . In 1923 he joined Detlev Brüning Fuchs in his father's corps Palaiomarchia . After four semesters, he moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg for a year , where he also joined the Corps Rhenania Freiburg in 1925 . He spent the last seven semesters at the Prussian University of Greifswald . For the Corps Guestfalia Greifswald he was more than a hundred scales Sekundant .

With a theme from the Middle High German with Wolfgang Stammler Denecke doctorate on 19 December 1929 by Dr. phil. For an additional semester he went to the University of Leipzig . There he worked in 1930 on the German dictionary at the Prussian Academy of Sciences . After the state examination for the higher teaching post in Greifswald, he went to the higher service at scientific libraries as a librarian in 1933 , first in the university library , then after passing the specialist examination ("The Library of the Brothers Grimm") in the manuscript department of the Prussian State Library in Berlin. He joined the Wehrmacht as a tank grenadier in 1940 and later became a prisoner of war . In 1948 he was released. In Meldorf , the family's refuge, Denecke did his apprenticeship as a stove fitter . In 1949 he came back to the library service, initially as a library councilor in the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen and in May 1959 as director of the Murhardsche and State Library in Kassel . The German Research Foundation commissioned him to describe their 4,500 book manuscripts. The Brothers Grimm Museum in Kassel , which opened on January 4, 1960 and made Denecke an internationally recognized research facility, was affiliated with it .

When he moved to Hannoversch Münden after his retirement in 1969, he began a lively academic activity in the fields of libraries, ancient German studies, manuscript studies and student history, and especially Brothers Grimm research. He headed the local history and history association Sydekum and was considered to be the “home care conscience of the city of Münden”.

From his first marriage with his fellow student Lotte geb. Borchers have two sons and two daughters. In 1961 he received the corps loop and in 1965 the ribbon of the Guestphalia Bonn and Greifswald zu Bonn . The Corps Masovia awarded him the fourth ribbon in 1960. In his second marriage, Denecke was born in 1969 with Irmgard. Get married. With his second wife he maintained a lively connection with his corps, on whose student fencing weapons he had fought 23 games.

meaning

Above all, Denecke made lasting contributions to the methodology of centralized manuscript and autograph cataloging and to the Brothers Grimm research. He published, among other things, the bequests in the libraries of the Federal Republic of Germany and libraries in medieval Fritzlar. Denecke was a co-opted member of the scientific advisory board of the Society for Fraternity History Research .

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theodor Denecke (corpsarchive.de)
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Knight poets and pagan gods (1150-1220) . Greifswald 1930
  3. ^ Hessische Allgemeine, February 4, 1961
  4. ^ Hessische Allgemeine, February 26, 1965
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 55/444; 35/988; 10/1015
  6. ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 . Potsdam 2006
  7. ^ West Germany Marks the Achievement of the Brothers Grimm. TIME, January 1985
  8. ↑ Much more than just fairy tales. To the Brothers Grimm exhibition in Göttingen . Göttinger Tageblatt, June 26, 1985
  9. ^ Mündener Allgemeine, January 10, 1985
  10. ↑ DIE WELT, August 28, 1985
  11. ^ The GHS Kassel gave him the list of Ludwig Denecke's publications .
  12. ^ Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine, June 15, 1985
  13. ^ Winner of the Brothers Grimm Medal. Retrieved February 9, 2017 .
  14. ^ Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , March 9, 1987
personal data
SURNAME Denecke, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1996
Place of death Hann. Münden