Sigrid Duchhardt-Bösken

Sigrid Duchhardt-Bösken , née Sigrid Bösken , (* 1943 in Graz ; † May 6, 2004 in Mainz ) was a German art historian and archivist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Mainz, Sigrid Bösken studied art history, history and classical archeology at the universities of Mainz and Vienna . In Mainz she received her doctorate in 1969 with Fritz Arens with a thesis on the Mainz goldsmiths from the end of the 15th to the end of the 18th century. In 1972 she married the historian Heinz Duchhardt . From 1970 she worked under Anton Philipp Brück at the cathedral and diocesan archive in Mainz and after his death in December 1984 became the director of the archive. In 1988 she gave up this position and moved to Münster with her husband. In 1995 she returned to Mainz and worked for the archive again.

The main focus of her archival activities included the backup filming of important documents and the central recording of parish archives of unoccupied parishes as well as the indexing of the estate of her doctoral supervisor Fritz Arens.

Publications (selection)

• The Mainz goldsmith's guild. Your masters and their works from the end of the 15th to the end of the 18th century (= contributions to the history of the city of Mainz, Volume 21). Mainz City Library, Mainz 1971.
• The Episcopal Ordinariate Mainz and National Socialism until 1933. A documentation . Public relations department in the Episcopal Ordinariate, Mainz 1983.

Web links

• Sigrid Duchhardt-Bösken died at the age of 60 . In: Mainz Diocese News No. 19, May 12, 2004
• Article by Sigrid Duchhardt-Bösken in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon
• Sigrid Duchhardt-Bösken in the opac of the Regesta Imperii