Paul Scheffer-Boichorst

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Paul Scheffer-Boichorst

Paul Scheffer-Boichorst (born May 25, 1843 in Elberfeld , † January 17, 1902 in Berlin ) was a German historian .

Paul Scheffer-Boichorst came from a Westphalian family. In 1862 he passed his Abitur at the Laurentianum grammar school in Warendorf . As a student of Julius Ficker, he studied history at the University of Innsbruck from 1862 , then in Göttingen and Berlin . At the University of Leipzig he received his doctorate in 1867 with the work of Emperor Frederick I's last dispute with the curia . His reviewers were Georg Voigt and Heinrich Wuttke .

From 1867, Scheffer-Boichorst worked at the Regesta Imperii , where he worked on the time from Lothar von Supplinburg to Heinrich VI. entrusted. In 1872 he became an employee at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Berlin. In 1875 he became an associate professor in Giessen without habilitation . From 1875 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . From 1876 Scheffer-Boichorst taught as a full professor of history in Strasbourg and from the summer semester of 1890 in Berlin. Scheffer-Boichorst's 400 academic students included Hermann Reincke-Bloch , Erich Caspar , Albert Werminghoff , Alexander Cartellieri , Emil Schaus , Ferdinand Güterbock , Karl Brandi , Paul Clemen , Aloys Meister and Karl Hampe .

We owe the reconstruction of the Annales Patherbrunnenses (1870) to Scheffer-Boichorst . From 1891 to 1902 he was a member of the central management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. In 1899 he was elected a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

In addition to work on German history, European cultural and economic history formed his work focus. Scheffer-Boichorst dealt with the chronicle of the Florentine politician Dino Compagni , which he thought was a forgery. The dispute over a possible forgery of the chronicle was already in full swing in Italy at this time. Scheffer-Boichorst thus played a role as a mediator between Italian and German history. In this context, there was a violent exchange of views in the 1870s with the Erlangen historian and expert on the history of the Italian city constitution, Karl Hegel , who pleaded for the authenticity of this chronicle and was thus to be proved right.

Paul Scheffer-Boichorst died in Berlin in 1902 at the age of 58 and was buried in the local St. Hedwig's cemetery on Liesenstrasse . The gravestone bore a portrait relief that Fritz Klimsch had created. The tomb has not been preserved.

Fonts (selection)

  • The reorganization of the papal election by Nicholas II. Texts and research on the history of papacy in the 11th century. Trübner, Strasbourg 1879, digitized .
  • Mr. Bernhard von der Lippe as a knight, monk and bishop. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity of Westphalia. Vol. 29, No. 2, 1871, ZDB -ID 201422-1 , pp. 107-235, (also special reprint: Regensberg, Münster 1871, digitized ).
  • Annales Patherbrunnenses. A lost source script from the twelfth century restored from fragments. Wagner, Innsbruck 1870, digitized .
  • Emperor Friedrich I last dispute with the Curia. Mittler and Son, Berlin 1866, digitized .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Paul Scheffer-Boichorst  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ Folker Reichert : Learned life. Karl Hampe, the Middle Ages and the history of the Germans. Göttingen 2009, p. 50.
  2. ^ Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: Members of the predecessor academies .
  3. ^ Marion circle: Karl Hegel. Historical significance and scientific historical location. Göttingen et al. 2012, pp. 83–86.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Berlin 2006, p. 55; Alfred Etzold: The Dorotheenstadt cemetery. The burial places on Berlin's Chausseestrasse. Berlin 1993, p. 182 f.
personal data
SURNAME Scheffer-Boichorst, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1902
Place of death Berlin