Theodor Joseph Lacomblet

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Theodor Joseph Lacomblet
Lacomblet was buried in the Golzheimer Friedhof in Düsseldorf . The grave slab was donated in 1948.

Theodor Joseph Lacomblet (~ December 15, 1789 in Düsseldorf ; † March 18, 1866 in Düsseldorf) was a German historian , archivist and head of the Prussian Provincial Archives in Düsseldorf, today's North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives Department Rhineland . He also emerged as a local politician and as an administrative specialist with a railway company.

Career

Lacomblet was baptized on December 15, 1789 in Düsseldorf (St. Lamberti) as the son of the Auvergne innkeeper (aubergist) Johann Franz Lacomblet (La Comble, [1735] –1791) and his wife Anna Maria Kick (1744–1814) . After attending the Düsseldorf grammar school, Lacomblet studied law at the Düsseldorf Law Academy with Carl Joseph Henoumont (1750-1816), Philipp Anton Hedderich , Josef Schram and Johann Wilhelm Neuss . He completed his studies after two years and at the age of 19 became an assistant at the Grand Ducal Bergische Hofbibliothek. In 1818 he became a librarian, in 1819 assistant to the Bergischer Archivist and in 1821 Bergischer Archivist. On September 9, 1822, he married Friederike Magdalene Dörr in Düsseldorf. In 1829 he became archivist at the main archive in Düsseldorf. He founded the Royal Prussian Provincial Archive for the Lower Rhine (from 1946: Main State Archive Düsseldorf , since 2004: State Archive North Rhine-Westphalia Department Rhineland ) in 1831 and subsequently took over its management in personal union with the management of the Royal Prussian State Library, which later became the university - and Düsseldorf State Library . From 1858 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

He stood out through the multi-volume document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cologne, the principalities of Jülich and Berg, Geldern, Meurs, Cleve and Mark, and the imperial monasteries Elten, Essen and Werden. For his services he was awarded the Dr. hc in Bonn and in 1863 in Münster. In Düsseldorf, Lacombletstraße (district of Düsseltal ) has had his name since 1907 .

Other engagement

From 1829 to 1853 Lacomblet was a member of the Düsseldorf city council and from 1851 to 1856 representative of the city of Düsseldorf in the district assembly and in the provincial assembly. From 1839 he was a member of the board of directors of the Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn and there from 1841 to 1844 director. In 1832 he joined the Association for the Elevation of the Theater in Düsseldorf and was a member of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia. In 1842 he called for the establishment of a branch association of the Cologne Cathedral Association for the Duchy of Berg in order to promote the Cologne Cathedral building .

Lacomblet was married to Friederike Magdalena Elisabeth Dörr (1790–1872), the daughter of the cafeteria Georg Gottlieb Dörr. His brother Johann Franz Lacomblet ([1771] –1852), owner of the coffeehouse Lacomblet & Dörr on Marktplatz, which was closed in 1850, as well as city councilor in Düsseldorf from 1819 to 1829 and a deputy member of the Rhenish provincial council from 1830 to 1841, remained unmarried.

Trivia

Lacomblet is said to be a large part of archival holdings, B. Bills of the Abbey of Werden, since the 16th century, have had them destroyed "because they had fallen apart". This fact is criticized today.

Works

  • Archive for the history of the Lower Rhine . Cöln: Heberle, 1832 - 1870. ( digitized version )
  • Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cöln, the principalities of Jülich and Berg, Geldern, Meurs, Kleve and Mark, and the imperial monasteries of Elten, Essen and Werden. From the sources in the Royal Provincial Archive in Düsseldorf and in the provincial church and city archives, complete and explained [...] edited by Theod. Jos. Lacomblet. ( Digital copies at the University and State Library Bonn)
    • First volume: From the year 779 to 1200 inclusive. Düsseldorf 1840
    • Second volume: From the year 1201 to 1300 inclusive. Düsseldorf 1846
    • Third volume: [From the year 1301 to 1400 inclusive]. Düsseldorf 1853
    • Fourth volume: Containing the documents from 1401 until the extinction of the Jülich-Cleve house in the male line (1609) and a gleaned of 80 old documents. Düsseldorf 1858

literature

Web links

Commons : Theodor Joseph Lacomblet  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Hömig:  Theodor Joseph Lacomblet. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 380 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Lacomblet, Theodor Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1866
Place of death Dusseldorf