Otto Jürgens (archivist)

Otto Theodor Friedrich Louis Jurgens (* 18th February 1862 in Hannover ; † 11. December 1929 ) was a German archivist , librarian and as a library director head of the city archives Hannover and the City Library Hannover .

Career

Otto Jürgens graduated from Lyzeum I ( Ratsgymnasium ) in Hanover in 1881 . After studying history and philology in Leipzig , Tübingen and Göttingen from 1882 to 1886, he completed his dissertation with the state sovereignty in the Principality of Lüneburg at the beginning of the War of Succession (1371) .

In April 1890 he was given a permanent position as head of the Hanover City Archives, and in parallel in 1893 as head of the Hanover City Library.

Otto Jürgens was a major co-founder of the Association for the History of the City of Hanover , which published the Hanover History Papers as an association magazine. On April 1, 1929, Jürgens was retired.

Publications

In addition to essays on the history of the city of Hanover and its sources in the journals of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony, the following stand out:

• History of the city of Lüneburg , 1891
• An official book of the Walsrode monastery , reprint from the Hanover history sheets, Hanover: M. and H. Schaper, 1899; Digitized via the Hamburg State and University Library
• Hannoversche Chronik (= publications on Lower Saxony's history , Volume 6), on behalf of the Association for the History of the City of Hanover, ed. von O. Jürgens, Hanover: Verlag von Ernst Geibel, 1907; Digitized by the University of Rostock
• The city archive in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , 19 (1916)
• Overview of the holdings of the Hannover City Archives. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , 22 (1919), 25 (1922) and 26 (1923)
• The city library in recent times. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , 23 (1920)

literature

• A. Wendland: Otto Jürgens in memory. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter 32 (1929), pp. 297-314
• Obituary by F. Busch, in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte . Ed. Vd Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Vol. 1ff., 1924ff., Here: Vol. 7 (1930), pp. 391–393
• Klaus Mlynek : Jürgens, (2) Otto. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 191.
• Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) A. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 331.

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Jürgens in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ oV : Jürgens, Otto ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the processing of April 29, 2015, last accessed on October 11, 2017