Wilhelm Alfred Eckhardt

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Wilhelm Alfred Eckhardt (born January 27, 1929 in Kiel ; † July 4, 2019 in Marburg ) was a German historian and archivist .

Life

Eckhardt attended the Beethoven-Gymnasium Bonn and received the Matura at the Academic Gymnasium Graz . He studied law and philology at the Philipps University of Marburg . He became active in the Corps Teutonia Marburg and reciprocated on February 10, 1949 . In 1953 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1956 he went to the Hessian State Archives in Marburg as an archive assessor . There he became chief archive director and director of the state archive in 1981. At the same time he headed the archive school in Marburg . In 1962 he became a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse . Retired in 1994 , he was the owner of the Trautvetter & Fischer Nachf. Publishing house in Witzenhausen . Eckhardt presented numerous editions on legal history.

family

Wilhelm A. Eckhardt is the son of the legal historian Karl August Eckhardt and the brother of the archivist Albrecht Eckhardt .

Publications (selection)

Editions

  • The Arnsburger Urbar. Historical Commission for Hesse, Marburg 2017.
  • The Frankenberger Stadtrechtsbuch. Historical Commission for Hesse, Marburg 2014.
  • Sources on the legal history of the city of Allendorf an der Werra and the Sooden salt works. Elwert, Marburg 2007.
  • Farm life in the age of the Thirty Years War. The Stausebacher Chronicle of the Caspar Price 1636–1667. Edited with Helmut Klingelhöfer. With an introduction by Gerhard Menk , Trautvetter & Fischer, Marburg 1998.
  • The Salbuch of the Kaufungen Monastery from 1519. Elwert, Marburg 1993.

Monographs

  • Bad Sooden-Allendorf. Guide to the city and its history. Together with Wilhelm Meder, 5th edition, Trautvetter & Fischer, Marburg 1983.
  • The collection of capitularies of Bishop Ghaerbald of Liège. Musterschmidt, Göttingen / Berlin / Frankfurt 1955 (at the same time: phil. Diss. Marburg 1953).

Anthology

  • Miscommunication and lectures. Trautvetter & Fischer, Marburg 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 171/1407.
  2. ↑ Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia Marburg 1825 to 2000 , p. 366.
  3. ↑ Trautvetter & Fischer Nachf.
  4. ↑ Andreas Hedwig: Obituary Dr. Wilhelm Alfred Eckhardt. Hessisches Landarchiv, accessed on October 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Eckhardt, Wilhelm Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckhardt, Wilhelm A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2019
Place of death Marburg , Germany