Rudolf Jung (historian)

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Rudolf Jung, around 1910

Jakob Ernst Rudolf Jung (born March 24, 1859 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 26, 1922 there ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

Jung was a son of the consistorial councilor Philipp Jung (1828–1902). He attended the model school from 1866 to 1872 and the municipal high school in Frankfurt am Main from 1872 to 1879 . After studying in Leipzig , Freiburg , Berlin and Marburg , he did his military service in Frankfurt.

From 1884 to 1886 Jung participated in the publication of the Reichstag files, which were overseen by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Since 1883, Jung belonged to the Free German Hochstift , whose librarian and administrative clerk he was appointed in 1884. In 1888 he succeeded Hermann Grotefend as head of the Frankfurt City Archives . He created a systematic order of the archive material, which should make the collection usable for the general public and which in principle still exists today. Under his leadership, which he exercised until his death and thus for almost 34 years, the Frankfurt City Archives became the best-organized and structured archive in Germany.

From 1883 he belonged to the Frankfurt Association for History and Archeology , whose first chairman he was from 1883 to 1913 and whose archive and library he managed from 1888. As editor, he was responsible for the association's publications, including the archive for Frankfurt's history and art , the quarterly Alt-Frankfurt publication and the communications on Roman finds in Heddernheim . He was also a co-founder of the Association for the Historical Museum and the Historical Commission of the City of Frankfurt am Main .

Jung worked for numerous specialist publications and freelanced for daily newspapers in Frankfurt, including the Frankfurter Zeitung , Frankfurter Nachrichten and Didaskalia .

The Jungstraße in Frankfurt-Bockenheim was named after Jung . His grave is in the Frankfurt main cemetery .

Works (selection)

Jung was the author of numerous works on Frankfurt history. He wrote 46 articles for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

His major works include

  • Frankfurt Chronicles and Annalistic Sources for the Reformation: Along with a representation of the siege of Frankfurt in 1552 . Frankfurt 1888 ( digitized version ) (= sources on Frankfurt history , vol. 2) - until today the standard work on the siege of the city in 1552.
  • Inventories of the Frankfurt City Archives . (Vol. 1, 1888 by Hermann Grotefend ), Vol. 2–4, 1889–1894.
  • The Frankfurt rural communities . 1895.
  • The historical archive of the city of Frankfurt am Main: its holdings and its history . Frankfurt 1896 ( digitized ).
  • Revised: The Frankfurt City Archives. Its holdings and its history . (= Publications of the Historical Commission of the City of Frankfurt a. M. , Vol. 1), Frankfurt am Main 1909 ( ULB Tirol )
  • Johann Friedrich v. Uffenbach (1687–1769) . 1900.
  • The Frankfurt City Archives, its holdings and its history . 1909.
  • The English refugee community in Frankfurt am Main 1554–1559 . 1910.
  • Frankfurt university plans: 1384–1868 . 1915.
  • Together with Carl Wolff and Julius Hülsen: Die Baudenkmäler in Frankfurt am Main , Architects and Engineers Association, Volume 1: Church buildings (1896) ( full text online ), Volume 2: Secular buildings (1898) ( full text online ), Volume 3: Private buildings (1914) ( full text online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Jung, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung, Jakob Ernst Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1922
Place of death Frankfurt am Main