Paul Arras
Paul Gustav Wilhelm Arras (born December 9, 1857 in Bautzen ; † March 27, 1942 ibid) was a German teacher, archivist and local history researcher .
education and profession
Paul Arras attended the community school in Bautzen and the grammar school there from 1869 to 1876. When Paul's father, Gustav Arras, was appointed to Zittau as a senior teacher at the commercial college in 1876 , the son attended the Johanneum there and passed the school leaving examination in 1878 .
In 1878 he began studying history , geography and German in addition to classical philology in Heidelberg . After the first semester he moved to the University of Leipzig and was there already in 1882 with a dissertation on Ronkal decisions from the year 1158 and their implementation. A contribution to the Italian policy of Emperor Frederick I for Dr. phil. PhD . During his studies in 1878 he became a member of the Arion Leipzig singers .
From 1883 to 1888 Arras was a senior teacher at the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig. He then moved to the Bautzen high school, where he worked as a senior teacher until his retirement in 1923.
In 1903 Paul Arras was appointed professor by the royal Saxon Ministry of Culture and Public Education. In 1914 he was appointed to the university council and in 1919 to the senior university council.
Scientific activity
In 1887, archivist Hubert Maximilian Ermisch visited numerous Saxon archives on behalf of the state government and the main state archive in Dresden , including the Bautzen council archive in October. He found letters from the 15th and 16th centuries in a locked cupboard as well as numerous documents, the oldest from the 13th century (“Fund Ermisch”). He strongly recommended that the city council employ a suitable man as archivist in the archives. Mayor Conrad Eduard Löhr found the solution to the problem in senior teacher Paul Arras, who was interested in history.
Arras began sifting through the files in April 1889 and reported them to the council in September. There were 3,000 documents available, for example a large number of receipts, news about the introduction of the Reformation , the history of the city and Upper Lusatia, as well as letters from the emperors and kings of Bohemia. Under the guidance of the main state archive, he initially processed 132 documents on a trial basis. In October 1889 he was then commissioned by the council to process the entire find. Within ten years he created 1152 short registers.
From 1900 to 1929 Arras worked part-time as the city archivist .
Arras wrote numerous treatises on homeland history. He published 23 articles in the New Lusatian Magazine alone .
In 1888 he became a member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences and, due to his services, was appointed honorary member in 1929. Paul Arras received the " Richard Jecht Medal" in June 1941 for his "successful research into the historical conditions in Upper Lusatia ".
Private life
Paul Arras had been married to Helene Heydenbluth from Leipzig since 1886. Several children emerged from the marriage, of which only Emmeline Mathilde Helene (* 1896) survived her parents. In 1922 she married the lawyer Johann Greifenhagen from Bautzen.
Fonts (selection)
- Songs from the Saxon fatherland from old and new times for school and home . Huhle, Dresden 1882.
- Images from Saxon history for school and home . Veit, Leipzig 1889.
- Bismarck poems . Friese, Leipzig 1898.
- Source book for Saxon history. For school and home . Weller, Bautzen 1912.
- Contemporary reports on the Battle of Bautzen on May 20 and 21, 1813 . Weller, Bautzen 1913.
- Hindenburg poems . Weller, Bautzen 1915.
- with Wolfgang Koch: Bautzen. A guide to the beauty of an old city. Guide through the 1000 year old Bautzen . Monse & Rasch, Bautzen 1933.
literature
- Bruno Reichard: Paul Arras: On the 100th birthday of one of the most famous local researchers in Lusatia . In: Bautzen culture show. 8th year, January 1958, pp. 6-8
- Grit Richter-Laugwitz: Prof. Dr. Paul Arras - A sketch of the life and work of the first city archivist of Bautzen . In: New Lusatian Magazine . New series, Volume 11, Oettel, Görlitz and Zittau 2008, pp. 111–116
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 104.
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Arras in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Paul Arras in the Saxon Bibliography
- Paul Arras ( Memento from December 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in the Biographical Lexicon of Upper Lusatia
- Arras, Paul . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arras, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arras, Paul Gustav Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, archivist and local researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bautzen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1942 |
| Place of death | Bautzen |