Uvo Hölscher (historian)

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Uvo Hölscher (1847–1914)

Uvo Adolf Hölscher (born September 28, 1847 in Norden (East Friesland) , † April 2, 1914 in Goslar ) was a German high school professor, archive manager and historical author in Goslar.

Life

After childhood and youth in Norden, Uvo Adolf Hölscher studied Classical Philology and German Studies in Göttingen and Berlin from 1868 to 1871 . After the state examination in 1872, he was initially a teacher in Goslar, and from 1874 at the Realgymnasium in Krefeld . In 1875 at the University of Rostock on a topic of ancient Greek literature he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1876 he became a senior teacher at the secondary school in Bützow , and in 1886 he became a high school professor at the Ratsgymnasium in Goslar. There he took on part-time management of the city ​​archives in 1887 . He made the documents evaluated by him the basis of historical representations, in particular the Goslar Reformation history . In 1910 he became Georg Bode's successor and first chairman of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity .

family

Uvo Hölscher's father Uvo Adolf Hölscher (1805–1863) was a lawyer and notary in the north. His brother was the pastor Wilhelm Hölscher (1845–1911). Wilhelm's sons Gustav and Uvo were his nephews, Gustav's son Uvo and his sons Tonio and Lucian were his great- and great-grandnephews.

He married Mathilde Wilhelmine Franziska Friederike Kahler (1855-1918), daughter of the businessman Friedrich Kahler, in Goslar on September 9, 1875 . They had six children.

Publications (selection)

  • Documented history of the Friedrichs University Bützow. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 50 (1885), pp. 1–110 ( full text )
  • (with Georg Bode :) Document book of the city of Goslar and the spiritual foundations in and near Goslar. Vol. 5: 1366 to 1400 , Halberstadt 1922
  • The history of the Reformation in Goslar according to the reports in the files in the municipal archive . Hanover / Leipzig 1902 ( digitized )
  • (with Carl Wolff and Anton von Behr :) Art monuments of the province of Hanover . Volume II ( administrative district Hildesheim ), 1st and 2nd city ​​of Goslar . 1901 ( digitized version )
  • numerous articles in the journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity ( digital copies )

literature

  • Emil Straßburger: Obituary Prof. Dr. Uvo Hölscher . In: Journal of the Harz Association for History and Archeology 47/1914, pp. I – IV ( digitized version )
  • Tillmann Lohse: The duration of the foundation: A diachronic comparative history of the secular collegiate monastery St. Simon and Judas in Goslar . Berlin 2011, p. 33, note 118

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ↑ a b c Information from the family book of the Hölscher family (manuscript), communicated by Prof. Dr. Lucian Hölscher
  3. ^ Title page of the dissertation
  4. ↑ GND
  5. ^ Hannelore Giesecke: Experienced by the way. Goslar 1930-1948 . Norderstedt 2012, p. 43
  6. ↑ Information from Tillmann Lohse, s. Web links
personal data
SURNAME Hölscher, Uvo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hölscher, Uvo Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, archive manager and historical author
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH North (East Frisia)
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1914
Place of death Goslar , German Empire