Richard Jecht

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Richard Jecht

Richard Jecht (born September 4, 1858 in Bornstedt (near Eisleben) , † July 25, 1945 in Dresden-Loschwitz ) was a historian of Upper Lusatia . His works on the history of Görlitz are still among the key works of the city's history.

Life

Oil painting ( Otto Engelhardt-Kyffhäuser , approx. 1915): Council archivist Richard Jecht

Richard Jecht came from a wealthy family from the Mansfeld region , his father was a senior climber and an administrative officer. Jecht began studying classical philosophy, German literature and history at the University of Halle in 1877 , where he was promoted to doctorate in 1881. In 1882 he passed the state examination and taught 1882-1883 at the grammar school in Guben and since 1883 as a professor at the grammar school in Görlitz. An ear disease made him hard of hearing and even deaf in one ear, so that he had to give up teaching.

Society house at Neißstraße 30 in Görlitz

In 1888 Jecht became permanent secretary of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences (OLGdW) and editor of the New Lusatian Magazine (NLM). Since 1909 he was an honorary member of the Niederlausitz Society for Anthropology and Antiquity . He lived in an apartment on the second floor of the OLGdW building at Neißstrasse 30 , which he received rent-free for life as the company's secretary and engine.

In addition, he took over the management of the Görlitz Council Archives in 1907 and in 1909 published the "Sources for the history of the city of Görlitz up to 1600", an overview of the medieval holdings of this important archive. Before that he had already written in several essays on the extensive Görlitz town book tradition. With the edition of the “Documents of the Upper Lusatian Hussite War” and the “oldest Görlitz council bills up to 1419”, he made source material widely available to a wide audience. Two more volumes of the Codex Diplomaticus Lusatiae Superioris, edited by him, followed later. As a larger edition, the “Görlitzer Achedldemach” should also be mentioned alongside a large number of scattered publications of individual sources.

Jecht's extensive publication activities on the history of the city of Görlitz and Upper Lusatia crown his “General History of the City of Görlitz in the Middle Ages” with a “Topography of the City of Görlitz” and his “History of the Upper Lusatian Hussite War”. In addition, he published the dissertation of his son Walter, who died in the First World War . Jecht received honorary citizenship of the city of Görlitz in 1933 . The University of Wroclaw made him an honorary senator.

Richard Jecht was one of the people whom the City Council of Görlitz had evacuated by truck in the spring of 1945 from the advancing Red Army . He came to his daughter-in-law's parents' house in Schandau and died a few months later of complications from a stroke at the age of 86 in Loschwitz , after his son's family had returned there towards the end of the war.

Jecht was closely connected to his homeland, Mansfelder Land, throughout his life. We owe him treatises on the Mansfeld dialect, the Mansfeld dialect - his "Dictionary of the Mansfeld dialect" - and studies on the regional characteristics of the Mansfeld dialect variants. He also announced a treatise on the "grammar of the Mansfeld dialect", which, however, has not appeared.

In April 2013, in Jecht's honor, the newly renovated building of the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences was renamed Richard-Jecht-Haus .

Works (selection)

  • De usu particulae ἤδη in Platoni's Dialogis qui feruntur . Halis Saxonum [= Halle (Saale)] 1891, OCLC 77588143 (dissertation University of Halle 1891, 55 pages full text ).
  • Topography of the City of Göritz (History of the City of Göritz, Volume 1, 2nd Half Volume), Görlitz 1927–1934.
  • General history of the city of Görlitz in the Middle Ages (History of the city of Göritz, Volume 1, 1st half volume), Görlitz 1926.
  • The economic conditions of the city of Görlitz in the first third of the 19th century , Görlitz 1916. [Digitalisat http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010977060 ]
  • The Upper Lusatian Hussite War and the land of the six cities under Emperor Sigismund. In: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin, Volume 87. (Part I), Görlitz 1911, pp. 35-279; Volume 90, (Part II), Görlitz 1914, pp. 31-151; Volume 92, (Part III), Görlitz 1916, pp. 72-151. [Digitized http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007913798 ]
  • Sources on the history of the city of Görlitz up to 1600 , Görlitz 1909.
  • The oldest Görlitz council accounts up to 1419 (Codex diplomaticus Lusatiae superioris, Volume 3), Görlitz 1905–1910. [Digital copy http://147.231.53.91/src/index.php?s=v&cat=22 ]
  • Documents of the Upper Lusatian Hussite War and the simultaneous feuds of the Sechslande. Part 1: encompassing the years 1419-1428 (Codex diplomaticus Lusatiae superioris, volume 2, 1st volume), Part 2: encompassing the years 1429-1437 and an appendix (Codex diplomaticus Lusatiae superioris, volume 2, 2nd volume) , Görlitz 1899–1904 [digitized version]

literature

  • Heinz Fietze: Görlitz - Outstanding citizens of our hometown from the 15th to 20th century . 1996, pp. 85-86
  • Roland Otto: 50th anniversary of the death of archivist and historian Richard Jecht (1858–1945) . In: Görlitzer Mosaik . July 1995, pp. 26-27
  • Konrad Jecht: Richard Jecht as a person and a family man . In: New Lusatian Magazine , New Series Volume 1, Verlag Gunter Oettel 1998, pp. 89–92. (The author lived with his brother with his grandfather Richard Jecht during World War II.)

Web links

Wikisource: Richard Jecht  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ines Eifler: Jecht's grandchildren are happy about the consecration of their names. In: Saxon newspaper . April 22, 2013 (online at SZ-Online , website of OLB Görlitz ( memento from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).
personal data
SURNAME Jecht, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian of Upper Lusatia
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Bornstedt (near Eisleben)
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1945
Place of death Dresden-Loschwitz