Otto Oppermann

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Otto Alexander Oppermann (born June 10, 1873 in Blasewitz , † December 28, 1946 in Wiesbaden ) was a German-Dutch medievalist .

Life

From 1892 Oppermann first studied law and later history in Bonn . During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity in 1892 , and later an honorary member in 1909. He received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1897 .

He worked for the archive service in Cologne and in 1900 became an employee of the Society for Rhenish History. In 1904 he went to Utrecht , where he worked as a lecturer for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences. From 1909 he was associate professor and from 1918 full professor for medieval history at the University of Utrecht . His focus was on document criticism and the history of the Dutch area in the Middle Ages as well as fraternity history. He was a co-founder of the Society for Fraternity History Research . In 1944 he retired.

Fonts

  • The Saxon office of Wittenberg in the early 16th century. Represented on the basis of an inheritance book from 1513 . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897 (also dissertation Leipzig 1897).
  • Noord-Nederland in de geestelijke divorceis of the middeleeuwen. Speech bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van buitengewoon hoogleeraar aan de Rijks-Universiteit te Utrecht, November 15, 1909 . Oosthoek, Utrecht 1909.
  • Investigations into Northern Dutch history from the 10th to 13th centuries . Volume 1. The Egmond forgeries . Oosthoek, Utrecht 1920. Volume 2. 2. The County of Holland and the Empire up to 1256 . Oosthoek, Utrecht 1921.
  • Rhenish document studies . Volume 1. The Cologne-Lower Rhine documents . Hanstein, Bonn 1922. Volume 2. The Trier-Moselle-Land documents . Wolters, Groningen 1951.
  • The Alemannia fraternity in Bonn and its predecessors. History of a German fraternity on the Rhine . 2 volumes. Bonn 1925.
  • The older documents of the Blandinium monastery and the beginnings of the city of Ghent . 2 volumes. Utrecht 1928.
  • The Franconian state concept and the Aachen royal coronations of the Middle Ages . Utrecht 1929.
  • Cologne-Geldrische document studies on the history of the 13th century . Wolters, Groningen 1952.

literature

  • D. Th. Enklaar: In memoriam Otto Alexander Oppermann. In: Jaarboek of the Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht 1946/47, pp. 15–22.
  • Entry in the Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland (Dutch)
  • Detmar Philippi: Alemanni album 1969 for the 125 foundation festival of the Alemannia fraternity in Bonn , 1969, p. 47
  • Oppermann, Otto , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . P. 255.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 148.

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personal data
SURNAME Oppermann, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oppermann, Otto Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Dutch medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Blowjoke
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1946
Place of death Wiesbaden