Philipp Ruppert

Johann Philipp Joseph Ruppert (born July 20, 1842 in Walldürn ; † September 13, 1900 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German high school teacher, archivist, historian and art collector.

Live and act

After attending grammar schools in Offenburg and Wertheim , Philipp Ruppert studied classical philology at the universities of Freiburg i. Br. And Heidelberg . Since 1872 he was a teaching trainee in Karlsruhe , Villingen and Gernsbach . He received his first permanent position in 1876 as a professor at the higher middle school in Gernsbach, and in 1877 he changed to the executive board at the higher middle school in Achern . From 1880 to 1885 he taught as a professor at the Mannheim grammar school , then briefly in Baden-Baden .

As a trainee teacher, Ruppert began to discover the history of the places and landscapes in which he worked, first Gernsbach and the Murgtal , then Achern and the Ortenau . He saw Konstanz as the real focus of his life and work , where he taught as a professor at the grammar school from 1886 to 1893 and briefly headed the city archive in 1889/1890.

Here Ruppert began to publish a series of five booklets, the first of which he titled as Constance Contributions to Baden History ; in the following four issues he limited himself to the history of Constance, which is why he changed the title to Constance Historical Contributions . In the preface to the first issue, Ruppert accused the director of the Baden General State Archives, Friedrich von Weech , of having withheld from him sources on the history of Margrave Bernhard I of Baden from the Grand Ducal House and State Archives. This prompted von Weech to file a complaint for defamation, which in 1893 resulted in Ruppert's transfer to the Progymnasium in Durlach , which Ruppert understood as a "punitive transfer". The anger of the archive director followed Ruppert to his grave: Von Weech included him on the death list of the fifth part of the Baden biographies , but characterized him slightly condescendingly as "the author of numerous historical works, some of which are not without value as collections of materials". In doing so, he does not do justice to the source-saturated works of Ruppert, which today are often out of date, but not completely replaced by modern editions. Ruppert let humorous comments flow into his cultural-historical mishaps.

In Konstanz, Ruppert began to put together a collection of pictures, initially by local artists, which grew rapidly through contact with Swiss artists. After being transferred to Durlach, he made contacts with the Karlsruhe art scene. After his death, a catalog of his collection was published with 792 numbers, mainly paintings, drawings and graphics from the 17th to 19th centuries from Central Europe, France and Italy.

Philipp Ruppert had been married to Maria, nee Baroness von Girardi, since 1873.

The city history series of Dolphin Books has been published in Konstanz since 1986 as Konstanz contributions to the past and present. Founded in 1888 by Philipp Ruppert as a Constance contribution to Baden history. Continued by the Delphin-Kreis Konstanz. New episode .

Fonts (selection)

• The old Konstanz in writing and pen. The chronicles of the city of Constance. Münsterbau-Verein, Constance 1891 ( digitized version ).
• Constance contributions to Baden history. Old and new. Self-published by the author, Konstanz 1888. - Volumes 2 to 5: Konstanzer historical contributions. Self-published by the author, Konstanz 1890–1899 ( digitized version ).
• The united foundations of the city of Konstanz. Self-published by the author, Constance approx. 1890 ( digitized version ).
• Legends from the Murgthale and stories. Müller'sche Buchdruckerei, Gernsbach 1887 ( digitized version ).
• The war events in Breisgau from 1632 to 1635 and the first siege of Breisach. D. Lauber, Freiburg i. Br. 1884 ( digitized version ).
• History of the Mortenau. Part 1. History of the house and rule of Geroldseck. R. Bott, Achern 1882 (no longer published, digitized version ).
• Brief history of the city of Achern. Achern 1880 ( digitized version ).
• History of the Ortenau. Volume 1. Rudolf Bott, Achern 1878 ( digitized version ).
• Ufgoviana. Volume II (= supplement to the annual report of the Grand Ducal Higher Citizens School Achern , school year 1877/1878). Rudolf Bott, Achern 1878 ( digitized version ).
• Ufgoviana. Volume I (= supplement to the program of the Höhere Bürgererschule zu Gernsbach ). W. von Müller, Gernsbach 1876 ( digitized version ).
• What has become of the old cathedral treasure to Constance. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive . Volume 25, 1896, pp. 225-266 ( digitized version ).
• A Reichenau wisdom. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive. Volume 24, 1895, pp. 269-272 ( digitized version ).
• The church in Lautenbach in the Renchtal. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive. Volume 24, 1895, pp. 273-290 ( digitized version ).
• Document contribution to the history of the city of Überlingen. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . Volume 17, 1888, appendix pp. 1-18 ( digitized version ).
• Church documents from the Mortenau. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive. Volume 18, 1886, pp. 327-332 ( digitized version ).
• Regest of the Mortenau nobility. 2. The von Schauenburg. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine . Volume 39, 1885, pp. 83-180 ( digitized version ).
• Supplements and corrections to the Neuenstein regesta. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Volume 39, 1885, pp. 181-182 ( digitized version ).
• Regest of the Mortenau nobility. 1. Neuenstein (end). In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Volume 38, 1885, pp. 130-156 ( digitized version ).
• Regest of the Mortenau nobility. 1. The Neuenstein. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Volume 37, 1884, pp. 385-411 ( digitized version ).
• Strasbourg nobility in Mortenau. I. The Erlin von Rohrburg. II. The Liebenzeller. In: Strasbourg Studies. Volume 2, 1884, pp. 68-77, pp. 499-500.
• Church documents from the Mortenau . In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive. Volume 15, 1882, pp. 303-307 ( digitized version ).
• Contributions to the history of the Gengenbach monastery. II. Abbot Melchior Horneck von Hornberg. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Volume 33, 1880, pp. 128-159 ( digitized version ).
• Contributions to the history of the Gengenbach monastery. I. Abbot Conrad von Muellheim. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Volume 32, 1880, pp. 309-320 ( digitized version ).
• Contributions to the history of the Gengenbach monastery. I. Abbot Conrad von Muellheim. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Volume 31, 1879, pp. 315-331 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Baden biographies . V. part. 1891-1901. Edited by Friedrich von Weech and Albert Krieger . Winter, Heidelberg 1906 p. 918 f. ( Digitized version )
• Ruppert Collection. Catalog of paintings, hand drawings, engravings, etc. In the possession of Mrs. W. Ruppert Wwe. Geb. Freiin von Girardi. Freiburg i. B. 1901 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Philipp Ruppert: Konstanzer historical contributions. Volume 4. Konstanz 1895, preface ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Dieter Städele: A dolphin bites its own fin or superfluous things ahead on its own. In: Delphin-Kreis (ed.): Of city districts, buildings and originals from Constance and the Swiss neighborhood (= Dolphin book . Volume 1). Südkurier, Konstanz 1986, pp. 7-12.