Theodor Herbs

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Friedrich Theodor David Kräuter (born June 10, 1790 in Weimar ; † September 29, 1856 there ) was a Weimar librarian, Grand Ducal Councilor and Secretary of Goethe .

Live and act

The master tailor Johann Friedrich Ehrenfried Kräuter († April 27, 1817), city elder and district chairman of Weimar, and his wife Johanna Dorothea Schenkin († February 20, 1826) had three children - two sons and a daughter. The older son was allowed to study. The younger - Theodor - was taken out of the subprima of the Weimar grammar school in 1805 for financial reasons and placed as a clerk in the ducal library in Weimar on December 1st of the same year . He was employed there on May 15, 1810 and remained employed in this institution until his retirement on January 1, 1856. During his service for fifty years, Theodor Kräuter became the administrator of the private library of Arch- Grand Duke Karl Friedrich in 1824, librarian on September 15, 1837, and Council of the Grand Ducal on April 2, 1841.

Theodor Kräuter became Goethe's private secretary in February 1811. Occasionally Goethe employed several scribes. Herbs was the most efficient. For example, long passages from the Italian trip were dictated to him in quiet morning hours . Herbs hardly stumbled over foreign words and phrases - like one or the other of his colleagues. He had used the relatively short time at grammar school to learn foreign languages ​​and continued to study in the library. On May 15, 1815 he was allowed to have lunch with Goethe and on December 19, 1815 he became secretary in Goethe's department "Supervision of the immediate institutions for science and art in Weimar and Jena". Herbs were allowed to enter Goethe unannounced.

When Goethe made Kräuter as library secretary in early 1816, Theodor was able to marry the young Friederike Wenzel. From 1817 to 1819, Kräuter gradually took over the cataloging of Goethe's private library. Regarding the work in this regard, Goethe noted on May 7th, 1822: "Kräuter worked ... to set up all files and documents relating to me and my sphere of activity and to bring him order." The result was available on September 2nd, 1822 - the " Repertory of Goethe's repository ”. Herbs had meanwhile become indispensable. He had become the only one who could find every sheet in Goethe's archive and library. Goethe thanked the poorly paid herb with housing allowance and the placement of paid ancillary work. On November 11, 1831, Goethe made him curator of the Münzkabinett .

Goethe used herbs as a mediator to the Weimar court in matters of library and collections. In 1824 Kräuter represented the senior librarian Vulpius, who was subsequently impaired by a stroke . After Vulpius' death in the summer of 1827, Kräuter was subordinate to the new senior librarian Riemer . While Kräuter is said to have worked in collegial agreement under Riemer, after Riemer's death he argued violently with Senior Librarian Preller, who took his place in 1847, even on minor issues.

Herbs let his only son Edmund study in Jena and Leipzig.

The correspondence with the Gotha chief librarian and philologist Friedrich Jacobs has been preserved from the years 1819–1843 .

The herbal estate can be found in the Kippenberg collection in the Goethe Museum Düsseldorf .

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  1. ^ Repository: File archive (location for the repository ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Hecker: Herbs' letters to Eckermann , p. 285
  2. ^ Conrady, p. 952, 10. Zvo
  3. ↑ Friedenthal, p. 661, 3rd Zvu
  4. ↑ Wilpert, p. 778 middle
  5. ^ Conrady, p. 946, 6. Zvo
  6. ↑ Max Hecker: Herbs' letters to Eckermann , p. 286, 6th Zvu
  7. ↑ Conrady, p. 629 middle
  8. ↑ Kippenberg Collection
personal data
SURNAME Herbs, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kräuter, Friedrich Theodor David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Weimar librarian, Grand Ducal Council and Secretary of Goethe
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1856
Place of death Weimar