Paul Hohenemser

Grave of Paul Hohenemser in the main cemetery in Frankfurt

Paul Wilhelm Hohenemser (* 1869 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 12, 1932 there ) was a German historian and librarian .

Life

Hohenemser comes from a well-known Jewish banking family from Frankfurt, attended school there and studied history and geography in Marburg and Berlin from 1888 to 1895 . In 1895 he got a job at the Frankfurt City Library. In 1899 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the "Critique of the Sources for the Battle of Hochkirch ". On April 1, 1906, Hohenemser was appointed library councilor. For the city library he wrote all the main systematic catalogs that appeared in print, including those on the Mathematical Department (1909), for Statistics (1914), Classical Classical Studies (1926, in two volumes) and the Hirzel Library (1927). In addition, he continued to work as a historian. His main scientific work was the study published in 1920 "The Frankfurt Constitutional Dispute 1705 to 1732 and the Imperial Commissions". He also published articles in "Alt-Frankfurt" and other magazines on a regular basis.

more publishments

• Gustav Freytag pamphlet collection . 1925, reprint Hildesheim: Olms, 1966
• "Discursus politici" pamphlet collection by Johann Maximilian Zum Junge . Frankfurt am Main: Voigt & Gleiber, 1930

literature

• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 160
• Frankfurter Zeitung, February 14, 1932 (obituary)