Theodor Voges

Theodor Voges (born October 12, 1845 in Wolfenbüttel ; † June 2, 1934 there ) was a German teacher , researcher of prehistory and local history .

Life

Theodor Voges was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1845 and grew up in the orphanage there from the age of 9 . From 1865 he attended the teacher training college in Wolfenbüttel and then worked from 1872 to 1916 as a teacher at the community school in his hometown. He carried out an inventory of architectural and art monuments in the state of Braunschweig for the districts of Wolfenbüttel , Helmstedt , Blankenburg and Holzminden . From 1884 he focused on prehistoric studies and built up a prehistoric collection in the Wolfenbüttel Castle Museum . Voges published on homeland and prehistory in the Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch and in the Braunschweigische Heimat, among others . He died in Wolfenbüttel in June 1934. His son was the historian and archivist Hermann Voges .

Fonts (selection)

• Tales from the history of the city of Wolfenbüttel: for home and school . Verlag Zwissler, Wolfenbüttel 1882. ( digitized version )
• Legends from the country of Braunschweig . Braunschweig 1895.
• Prehistoric settlements in the north Harz hills . 1907.
• From the heathen times of the Braunschweig country . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 1910. ( digitized version )
• Lessing's apartments in Wolfenbüttel . Heckners Verlag, Wolfenbüttel 1914.

literature

• Hans Gummel : Research History in Germany (= Prehistory research and its historical development in the civilized states of the earth 1). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1938, p. 465.
• Wolf-Dieter Steinmetz: Voges, Theodor . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 631-632 .