Ludwig Veit

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Ludwig Veit (born December 22, 1920 in Kramersdorf near Passau ; † September 10, 1999 ) was a German historian and archive director at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.

Live and act

Ludwig Veit was born in Kramersdorf in the municipality of Raßreuth in 1920 as the son of a farmer. He grew up with several siblings on his parents' farm. His brother Johann was killed in Poland in September 1939, a second brother, Norbert, died in Russia in October 1941. After that, his younger brother Willibald (1926–2012) had to take on agriculture, although he would also have liked to study.

After the end of the war, Ludwig Veit studied history, historical auxiliary sciences and art history in Munich and Erlangen. He finished his studies in 1952 with a dissertation on Nuremberg and the Feme. The struggle of an imperial city against the jurisdiction claim of the Westphalian courts , which was revised in print in 1955. In 1958 Veit came to the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. One of the first tasks there was to sift through and organize the stocks that had been removed during the war. In 1959 his overview of the holdings appeared in the museum's display.

At the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, Veit worked as archive director until his retirement in 1985, primarily for the archive for fine arts founded in 1964 , which was renamed the German Art Archive in 2008 . From 1970 to 1985 he was the second state representative for the Free State of Bavaria in the Numismatic Commission of the States of the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1974 to 1986 Ludwig Veit was chairman of the Nürnberger Verein für Münzkunde, one of the oldest coin associations in Germany. He was then made an honorary member of the association.

Publications (selection)

  • Passau. The Hochstift . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , Part of Old Bavaria, Series I, Issue 35. Ed. Commission for Bavarian State History . Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7696-9896-7 ( digitized version ).
  • The historical archive and the archive for fine arts . In: The Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg 1852–1977. Contributions to its history. Edited by Bernward Deneke and Rainer Kahsnitz. Munich, Berlin 1978, pp. 521-545.
  • The German Bell Archive in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg 1965–1985 . In: Lusus campanularum. Contributions to bells. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Sigrid Thurm (= workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation 30). Edited by Tilmann Breuer . Munich 1986, pp. 91-98.
  • Trade and change with the whole world: from Nuremberg's heyday . In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums, 1960.

Awards

literature

  • Irmtraud Frfr. by Adrian-Werburg and Hermann Maué: Ludwig Veit 1920-1999. Obituary and bibliography . In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums, 2000 (pp. 77–81).
  • Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-110-91296-8 , pp. 1572, 1573.

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personal data
SURNAME Veit, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archive director
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Kramersdorf near Passau
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1999