Walter von Boetticher

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Walter von Boetticher (born November 29 . Jul / 11. December  1853 greg. In Riga , † 3. July 1945 in Radebeul ) was a German historian , genealogist and physician.

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Walter von Boetticher was born in Riga as the son of the art historian Friedrich von Boetticher (1826–1902). After attending the Dresden Kreuzgymnasium , he studied medicine in Würzburg, Marburg and Jena from 1873 to 1877 and received his doctorate in 1878. med. ( Dissertation "On reflex inhibition"). Boetticher then worked as a general practitioner in Bertelsdorf , Stolpen and Göda .

The first regional historical works originated from this time. With his move to Bautzen in 1905, Boetticher concentrated exclusively on historical research, which he continued with his change of residence in 1908 to Dresden and in 1912 to Oberlößnitz , now part of Radebeul . He lived there in the villa of Oswald Haenel , who had died the year before. Boetticher published numerous essays on the history of Upper Lusatia and its nobility. Between 1912 and 1923 his life's work, the history of the Upper Lusatian nobility and their estates 1635–1815 , was published in four volumes .

In 1904 Walter von Boetticher was entered in the Saxon nobility book, in 1905 he was made an honorary member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences . In 1929 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau in addition to his doctorate in medicine . In addition to other awards and medals, Boetticher received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science on his 90th birthday in 1943 . Since 1907 he was Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John .

In 1952, his son Friedrich von Boetticher gave the Herder Institute (Marburg) the so-called Boetticher collection , which contains 230 bibliographical, sometimes multi-volume, titles from the original library, including the complete Lausitzische Magazin in 25 volumes since 1768 as well as the New Lusatian magazine from 1822 to 1941.

Walter von Boetticher rests in the municipal cemetery in Bautzen . He was married to Isabella Wippermann (1859–1943), daughter of the landowner Hermann Anton Wippermann on Weddelbrook in Holstein, with whom he had four children, since 1880 .

Works and essays

  • News about the von Boetticher family. Courland Line. 1891
  • The castle chapel in Bautzen. In: New Lusatian Magazine . Volume 70, 1894, pp. 25 ff.
  • Family records in the possession of Upper Lusatian libraries. Special print from: Berlin Sittenfeld, quarterly journal 1896
  • Contributions to the history of the Franciscan monastery in Kamenz. Kamenz 1896
  • The Rügen courts in the localities of the St. Petri cathedral monastery in Bautzen. In: Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Friedrich Heinrich von Boetticher. Monse 1896
  • The Rügen courts in Görlitz and Löbau. In: New Lusatian Magazine. Volume 73, 1897, pp. 202-247
  • Ernst Theodor Stöckhardt . In: Leopoldina. Book 34, 1898, pp. 88-91
  • Book sheets from Upper Lusatian scholars, preferably from the 17th century. Reprint from New Lusatian Magazine. 1898
  • Free purchases of Upper Lusatian villages. Reprint from New Lusatian Magazine. 1899
  • History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and their estates 1635–1815. 4 volumes, 1912–1923 ( digitized version )
  • Gypsies in Bautzen and the surrounding area. In: Bautzen history books. Volume 3, Issue 1, 1925, pp. 31-35
  • The nobility of the Görlitzer Weichbildes at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. In: New Lusatian Magazine. Volume 104, 1928, pp. 1-304
  • The Görlitz writer Johann Friedrich Dietrich . In: New Lusatian Magazine. Volume 109, 1933, pp. 199-212

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ News about the von Boetticher family. 11th episode, 1995; see. also Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility . Volume 83, Limburg ad Lahn 1984, pp. 7-58; Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Friedrich Heinrich von Boetticher. Monse 1896
  2. ↑ The Boetticher collection in the research library of the Herder Institute in Marburg
personal data
SURNAME Boetticher, Walter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, genealogist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1853 or December 11, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1945
Place of death Radebeul