Konrad Mannert

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Konrad Mannert, date unknown. After a sketch by Lutz Lacroix drawn on stone by Schimon Lacroix

Konrad Mannert (born April 17, 1756 in Altdorf near Nuremberg ; † September 27, 1834 in Munich ) was a German historian and geographer.

Konrad Mannert was the son of the barber and surgeon Johann Heinrich Mannert. As a child he attended the town school of Altdorf and then the school of St. Sebald in Nuremberg . In 1778 he took up his studies at the University of Altdorf . In 1783 he became a master. From 1784 he worked as a teacher at the Sebalder School, from 1786 as a teacher and librarian at the Egidiengymnasium in Nuremberg. In March 1797 he was given the position of full professor for history and oriental languages ​​at Altdorf University. In 1803 the Homann'sche map office in Nuremberg gave him the scientific management. In this publishing house he brought out numerous maps. The arrangement seems to have expired around 1807. In 1805 he went to the University of Würzburg as a professor . In 1807 he moved to the new Bavarian Central University in Landshut as a professor of history and geography, and then in 1826 he moved with the university to Munich . In 1827 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 1828 he retired.

His works are particularly characterized by a thorough study of the sources. His monumental major work on the geography of the Greeks and Romans , on which he worked almost his entire life, was of particular importance for the study of antiquity . This work received a special reception from the German writer Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), who drew much of his knowledge of the ancient world from it, which he used for stories such as Kosmas or Vom Berge des Nordens . Schmidt thanked him by mentioning Mannert on various occasions, for example in Brand's Haide , where he said, “Konrad Mannert: I thank you, I owe you a lot of knowledge: why do the Wilhelmsaffen have monuments and not Konrad Mannert? ! ”Appreciated.

Mannert was married to Ursula Jacobina Nagel, a daughter of the theologian Johann Andreas Michael Nagel .

Fonts

  • History of Bavaria , Leipzig 1826, 2 volumes
  • Compendium of the German Imperial History , Nuremberg 1803
  • Oldest history of Boyaria , Sulzbach 1807
  • Emperor Ludwig IV. , Landshut 1812
  • History of the old Germans, especially the Franks , Stuttgart 1829–1832, 2 parts
  • Geography of the Greeks and Romans , Nuremberg 1788–1825, 14 volumes
  • Tabula Peutingeriana , Munich 1824

cards

America by Konrad Mannert (1796)
Map from 1811 shows Bavaria in 1180, broken down according to rulership areas
  • The Bavarian monarchy. Designed in two sheets by Conrad Mannert. Christian M. Trummer sculpsit. [Approx. 1: 610,000]. Nürnberg, by Christoph Fembo 1824. Copper engraving in 3 parts mounted on a sheet
  • The Bavarian monarchy. [Dedicated] King Maximilian Ioseph I of Bavaria. Designed in two sheets by Conrad Mannert. CM Trummer sc. After the new division, expanded and corrected edition. [Approx. 1: 610,000]. Nuremberg, Christoph Fembo, formerly Homann's heirs 1819. With 1 side card: Supplement to Mannert's chart of Bavaria: the Rhine district. Secondary title: Road map of the Kingdom of Baiern according to the highest regulations on the division of roads

literature

Web links

Commons : Konrad Mannert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Konrad Mannert  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ^ Arno Schmidt, Brand's Haide [1951], in: Arno Schmidt, works. Bargfelder Edition , Volume I / 1, Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1987, pp. 115–199, here p. 163. On Schmidts' Mannert reception cf. especially Dieter Kuhn, Mannert: I thank you. About a source for Arno Schmidt's "Kosmas" , in: Bargfelder Bote , Liefer 134-136, March 1989, pp. 4-33.


personal data
SURNAME Mannert, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mannert, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Altdorf near Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1834
Place of death Munich