Max Duncker (church historian)

Max Eugen Paul Duncker (born July 7, 1862 in Geislingen an der Steige ; † June 15, 1941 in Tübingen ) was a Protestant pastor in Klingenberg , Belsen and Neckarsulm as well as the Württemberg church and state historian.

Life

Duncker was the son of a Geislingen merchant, first attended school in Geislingen and Nürtingen and then the seminars in Schöntal Monastery and Bad Urach . In 1880 he completed his military service in Tübingen and then studied theology there. After a legal traineeship, a study trip and the second service examination, he became pastor in Klingenberg am Neckar near Heilbronn in 1888 . The small parish left enough time for its scientific and historical interests. He supported the Heilbronn city archivist Friedrich Dürr with religious-historical studies for the second processing of the description of the Heilbronn Oberamt .

In 1898 he was transferred to Belsen near Tübingen. There, too, he could devote himself to scientific interests in addition to the pastor's office. In Tübingen he attended lectures by historians at the university, at the same time he undertook excavations in the interior of the Belsen chapel , about which he later published. For the second volume of the description of the Oberamts Heilbronn he ordered the castle archive in Talheim and was followed by a presentation of the first due to Ganerbschaften write complicated history of this place. He then took up various parish and community registers in several Württemberg regional districts, which enabled him to publish numerous findings. For the Commission for Württemberg State History, he then edited the directory of the Württemberg church records published in 1912, which he added to the church convention protocols for a new edition from 1938.

In 1912 he became parish priest in Neckarsulm and was thus able to devote himself to the history of the neighboring town of Heilbronn, although the pastor's post in Neckarsulm, connected with the branch in Gundelsheim and, during the First World War, also served in the hospital at Horneck Castle , took considerably more time than his previous pastor's position so that the scientific work moved into the background. In 1933 he retired, which he spent again doing historical research in Tübingen, primarily researching the hospital files in the city archive. In addition, he had been a state monument conservationist since 1913 and a member of various historical associations, at whose meetings he also gave lectures. On the eve of his death, he was still doing historical research in the Tübingen University Library .

literature

• Andreas Butz: Max Duncker. In: Maria Magdalena Rückert (Ed.): Württembergische biographies including Hohenzollern personalities. Volume II. On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021530-6 , pp. 43-45.

Web links

• Andreas Butz: Max Duncker . Württemberg Church History Online