Wilhelm Conrady

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Wilhelm Conrady

Wilhelm Conrady , whose full name was Wilhelm Heinrich Bernhard Conrady , (born July 25, 1829 in Rüdesheim am Rhein , †  December 1, 1903 ) was a German lawyer and private scholar and, as an autodidact, provincial Roman archaeologist . He was born as the second son of Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig Conrady (1794-1832), most recently prescription officer and councilor to Rüdesheim, and had seven siblings. His mother, Luise Habel, was the daughter of the ducal Nassau court chamber councilor Christian Friedrich Habel (1747–1814), who was one of the initiators of the Association for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research, founded in 1812 .

Conrady attended school in Idstein and graduated from high school in Wiesbaden in 1848 . He then studied law at the Universities of Giessen and Heidelberg . In 1852 he passed the Nassau state examination. In the following years he worked in Idstein, Wehen , Hochheim and Wiesbaden. In 1865 he became a district judge in Rüdesheim.

In 1867 he inherited the Mildenburg above Miltenberg from his uncle Friedrich Gustav Habel , along with the extensive antiquity collection and a considerable fortune that made him financially independent. This enabled him to devote himself to the collection and to studies of antiquity. He initiated extensive repairs to the castle. However, he did not undertake his own provincial Roman research until 1875 with the investigation of the old town fort in Miltenberg . In 1879 he discovered the Limes route from Fort Walldürn on Main, in the 1880s, the Main Limes with the forts Stockstadt , Niedernberg , Obernburg , Wörth and Trennfurt . In 1890 he designed the tasks of the State of Bavaria for the Reichs-Limeskommission (RLK) to be founded and in 1892 was appointed one of its route commissioners.

Wilhelm Conrady died childless, the extensive collection on the Mildenburg was sold by his heirs. His nephew August Conrady , a well-known sinologist in Leipzig, bought part of Miltenberg Castle after the death of Wilhelm Conrady in order to exhibit his art collection.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Niedernberg Castle . In: The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches , (Ed .: Ernst Fabricius , Felix Hettner , Oscar von Sarwey ), Dept. B, Vol. 3, Petters, Heidelberg 1896
  • The fort Wörth . In: The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches , (Ed .: Ernst Fabricius, Felix Hettner, Oscar von Sarwey), Dept. B, Vol. 3, Petters, Heidelberg 1900
  • The Obernburg Castle . In: The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches , (Ed .: Ernst Fabricius, Felix Hettner, Oscar von Sarwey), Dept. B, Vol. 3, Petters, Heidelberg 1903
  • The Alteburg Fort near Walldürn . In: The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches , (Ed .: Ernst Fabricius, Felix Hettner, Oscar von Sarwey), Dept. B, Vol. 4, Petters, Heidelberg 1904
  • The Trennfurt Fort . In: The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches , (Ed .: Ernst Fabricius, Felix Hettner, Oscar von Sarwey), Dept. B, Vol. 3, Petters, Heidelberg 1913

literature

  • Rudolf Vierengel: Wilhelm Conrady . In: Ders .: Miltenberg and his castle. Collected essays . Historical Miltenberg Association V., Miltenberg 1979, pp. 85-89.
  • Klaus Reffel: Life pictures Mildenberg Limes researchers. In: Roman Lapidary. Collection of Roman stone monuments. Museum der Stadt Miltenberg, Miltenberg 1984, pp. 7–9.
  • Rainer Braun: Early research on the Upper German Limes in Baden-Württemberg . Württembergisches Landesmuseum u. a., Stuttgart 1991, p. 131 and p. 99 Fig. 49.