Rudolf Wackernagel

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Friedrich Rudolf Wackernagel (born June 7, 1855 in Basel ; † April 16, 1925 there , reformed , resident in Basel) was a Swiss lawyer , archivist and historian .

Rudolf Wackernagel (1855–1925)
Rudolf Wackernagel

life and work

Rudolf Wackernagel was a son of the Germanist Wilhelm Wackernagel . After attending high school in Basel, he studied in Basel and Leipzig law . In 1877 he received his doctorate. iur.

Also in 1877, the government council of the canton of Basel-Stadt elected him as the youngest of 17 applicants as the first full-time state archivist, an office he held until 1918. He led the reorganization of the archive holdings, which was completed in 1904 with the publication of the so-called repertory and the establishment of a plan archive. In 1899, when he moved into the current archive building on Martinsgasse, he founded the collection of pictures and negatives. From 1882 to 1899 he was also secretary of the government council.

Rudolf Wackernagel, Wolfgottesacker Cemetery, Basel
Family grave, Wolfgottesacker cemetery

Wackernagel supervised several source editions and published numerous historical studies, including a broad Basel story that was conceived up to the present day, but which he was only able to realize until the Reformation. He also taught at the University of Basel as Associate Professor of History from 1917 to 1918 .

In 1894 he became an honorary Dr. phil. from the University of Basel, in 1917 also Dr. theol. honorary. From 1877 Wackernagel was a member of the board of the historical and antiquarian society of his hometown and was its president from 1887 to 1890 and 1898 to 1904.

From 1902 to 1917 he was editor of the Basel magazine for history and antiquity . From 1882–1907 he was also co-editor of the Basler Jahrbuch . In 1920 he was one of the founders of the cooperative that publishes the Swiss Monthly Issues for Politics and Culture. In 1921 he was elected a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Rudolf Wackernagel was also active as a literary writer, especially as a writer for festivals . He also wrote the libretto for Hans Huber's first opera Weltfrühling . Like his father, Wackernagel lived in the Hinteren Württemberger Hof. His father bought the property from Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette . Hermann Hesse , a close friend of Wackernagel, wrote a poem in 1901 about the Hinteren Württemberger Hof . From 1903 until his death, Wackernagel lived in the Alten Wenken in Riehen, which his wife had inherited. He found his final resting place in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery .

Rudolf Wackernagel was the younger brother of the Indo-Germanist Jacob Wackernagel and father of the art historian Martin Wackernagel . A street in Riehen is named after Rudolf Wackernagel .

Scientific works and source editions (selection)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Rudolf Wackernagel  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basel State Archives: Collection of images and negatives. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 249.
  3. ^ Dominik Heitz: Authors in Riehen: The writer Hermann Hesse. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Basler Buildings, Hintere Württemberger Hof: Poem by Hesse. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ August Burckhardt : Words of Memory to Prof. Dr. Rudolf Wackernagel. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wackernagel, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wackernagel-Burckhardt, Friedrich Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1925
Place of death Basel