Wilhelm Fabricius (historian, 1857)

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Wilhelm Fabricius, 1927

Wilhelm Fabricius (born October 12, 1857 in Groß-Umstadt , Grand Duchy of Hesse , † April 14, 1942 in Marburg ) was a German librarian and historian.

Life

Fabricius was a son of the pastor and church councilor Wilhelm Justus Fabricius and Auguste Wilhelmine Luise Fabricius née Draudt. After graduating from the Siegen grammar school, he studied natural science , philosophy , education and history at the Hessian Ludwig University , the University of Jena and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1878 . In 1895 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1896 he joined the Prussian library service and became an assistant librarian at the University Library of Marburg . In 1902 he went to the Kaiser Wilhelm Library in Posen and in 1906 again to Marburg. There he was later appointed senior librarian and in 1917 honorary professor. In 1923 he retired. He continued to do research and in 1925 became a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck .

Fabricius' main field of activity was student history , which he had co-founded as an independent discipline. He wanted it to be classified under the general subject of university studies . During his studies he was active in the Corps Starkenburgia (1879) and in the Corps Guestphalia Jena (1880). He later received the tapes from Teutonia Marburg (1905) and Guestphalia Marburg (1911). He performed numerous functions in the Association of Old Corps Students (VAC). In 1884 he was a co-founder of the Academic monthly books , in 1888 co-founder and first secretary of the VAC and a member of several commissions, including until 1935 the historical commission of the association. On his initiative, the Marburg Agreement was concluded in 1912 , which is considered the forerunner of the General German Arms Ring (ADW) and the Erlangen Association and Honorary Agreement (EVA). The establishment of a student history collection, which he himself was in charge of in Marburg from 1907 to 1929, also went back to Fabricius. It came into the care of Carl Manfred Frommel , who looked after it from 1930 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and from 1935 at the Marienberg Fortress . In Würzburg it now forms the basis of the Institute for Higher Education at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg . Fabricius' scientific papers are kept in the archive of the Kösener SC Association in the Institute for University Studies.

He was married to Margarete Marianne Henriette nee Schneck in Siegen since May 29, 1888 . Their daughter Bertha married Kurt Glaser .

Honors

Works (selection)

  • with Karl Scharfenberg: History of the Corps Starkenburgia zu Gießen from 1840–1890: in memory of the 50th anniversary of the foundation commemoration in Gießen on August 7, 8 and 9, 1890 , [Berlin]: Schuh & Cie. [1891].
  • The student orders of the 18th century and their relationship to the contemporary country teams. An attempt at cultural history , Jena: Döbereiner 1891.
  • Siegen students in earlier centuries , Siegen: Vorländer 1898.
  • The German Corps. A historical representation with special consideration of the scaling system , Berlin: Thilo 1898 (2nd edition 1926).
  • History and chronicle of the Kösener SC-Verband, according to the files , Marburg aL: Elwert 1907 (3rd edition 1921).
  • New German Kommersbuch (ed.), Dresden: Sponsel 1911.
  • Catalog of the library of the Association of Old Corps Students , 2nd edition, Frankfurt a. M .: Publishing house of the Deutsche Corpszeitung 1927.

literature

  • Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. A bio-bibliographical directory . SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X , ( Treatises on Student and Higher Education 13), pp. 97–99.
  • Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 74.
  • Günther Knecht : Wilhelm Fabricius Starkenburgiae EM, Guestphaliae-Jena (xxx), Teutoniae- and Guestphaliae-Marburg . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 1 (1956), pp. 105-107. ISSN  0420-8870 .

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Fabricius (historian)  - sources and full texts
Commons : Wilhelm Fabricius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5762, p. 377 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The Academic Deposition (depositio cornuum). Contributions to German literary and cultural history, especially to the moral history of universities , Frankfurt a. M. 1895.
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 37/426; 70/257; 102/942; 98/244.
personal data
SURNAME Fabricius, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß-Umstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1942
Place of death Marburg