Paul Lehfeldt

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Paul Lehfeldt (born February 9, 1848 in Berlin ; † July 2, 1900 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German art historian .

Life

As the son of the publisher Joseph Lehfeldt (1804-1858), Paul Lehfeldt graduated from the Friedrichwerdersche Gymnasium in Berlin in 1867 . From 1867 to 1871 he studied art history and archeology in Bonn (with Anton Springer ) and in Berlin (with Karl Friederichs and Ernst Curtius ). He also put in 1873 at the Berlin Academy of Architecture , the Bauführerprüfung from. In 1871 he obtained his doctorate in Halle. phil. and in 1876 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at the Berlin Building Academy . In 1884 he was appointed as the successor to Friedrich Klopfleisch (1831–1898) curator of the art monuments of Thuringia . His official title "Conservator of the Governments of Thuringia" stems from the fact that Thuringia was still divided into eight small states (duchies and principalities). Mainly he was concerned with the recording of art monuments, especially as head and editor of the corpus work on the Thuringian art monuments. He also published numerous articles on this topic in specialist journals. For his publications he was appointed royal titular professor by the Prussian minister of culture. He was a member of the Berlin Architecture Association and the Archaeological Society and, in 1884, a founding member of the Berlin " Society of the Casual ".

His final resting place is after he was reburied from the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin on the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

  • The art of wood construction. Lectures at the Berlin Building Academy . Springer, Berlin 1880; Reprint Holzminden 2001.
  • Architectural and art monuments of the Coblenz administrative district , Düsseldorf 1886.
  • Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia , Jena 1888–1899 ( digital copies ).
  • Introduction to the art history of the Thuringian states , Jena 1890.
  • Luther's relationship to art and artists , Berlin 1892.

literature

  • Richard Wrede: The spiritual Berlin. Vol. 1, Berlin 1897.
  • Julius Kohte : Paul Lehfeldt †. In: Die Denkmalpflege , Volume 2, No. 9 (July 18, 1900), p. 72.
  • Max Georg Zimmermann: Nekrolog. In: Kunstchronik from July 20, 1900. NFXI No. 21, Col. 490.
  • Hans Helmolt: Obituary. In: Biographisches Jahrbuch. Vol. 5 (1903).
  • Hermann Wirth: Paul Zschieche, Paul Lehfeldt, Georg Dehio and Karl Friedrich Schinkel - Notes on the history of the inventory of cultural monuments. In: 100 Years: The Prehistoric and Protohistoric Antiquities of Thuringia. Langenweißbach 2001 (= articles UFG Mitteilungen, Vol. 59), pp. 34–38.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Roland Berbig, Josefine Kitzbichler (arr.): Theodor Fontane Chronik , Vol. 4: 1884–1895 . De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-018910-0 , p. 2610.

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personal data
SURNAME Lehfeldt, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1900
Place of death Bad Kissingen