Rudolf Philippi (historian)

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Rudolf Philippi (born December 2, 1821 in Königsberg , † May 1897 in Wiesbaden ) was a Prussian archivist and historian .

Life

Rudolf was a son of the music teacher Karl Wilhelm Philippi and Charlotte, geb. Bantau. After attending grammar school, he studied philosophy and history at the Albertus University in Königsberg . From 1855 to 1864 he worked for the New Prussian Provincial Papers . It was only after 10 years of working in the Königsberg State Archives that he was accepted there on the recommendation of Meckelburg as an unskilled worker and received remuneration since 1868 . In 1871 he was promoted to the official archives secretary, in the summer of 1874 to the archivist and in the winter of the same year to the state archivist of the State Archives in Königsberg. Philippi had been a corresponding member of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces of Russia since 1876 . In 1882 he finally became archivist. At the beginning of 1887, after having been on leave since October of the previous year, he retired .

Editorships

  • Simon Grunau 's Prussian Chronicle on behalf of the Association for the History of East and West Prussia , Leipzig 1876 (together with Max Perlbach and P. Wagner)
  • The Prussian historians of the 16th and 17th centuries. Leipzig 1876
  • The von der Marwitz in their relations with the religious state in Prussia. Koenigsberg 1880
  • Baron Johann von Schwarzenberg in Prussia: A contribution to his biography. 1880
  • Prussian Document Book, Political Department. Volume 1, Königsberg 1882 (together with CP Woelky) ( digitized version )
  • Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. With a note about the author and his book. Königsberg 1886 (author was Georg Christoph Pisanski (1725–1790))

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Herrmann: Tombs berümter (...) persons at the Wiesbaden cemeteries. 1928; Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 4, 1899, Reimer, Berlin 1900, column 96 * ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Meeting reports of the Society for the History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces of Russia from 1884 , Riga 1885, p. 156.
  3. ↑ Prussian Document Book , Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage .
  4. ↑ Hanspeter Marti, Manfred Komorowski (ed.): The University of Königsberg in the early modern times. Böhlau Verlag 2008, p. 359.
personal data
SURNAME Philippi, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH May 1897
Place of death Wiesbaden