Wilhelm Jesse

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Wilhelm Jesse (born July 3, 1887 in Grabow ; † January 11, 1971 in Braunschweig ) was a German historian , numismatist , folklorist , archivist and from 1932 to 1952 director of the Braunschweig Municipal Museum .

Life

Jesse studied history, philology and philosophy at the universities of Munich , Kiel and Berlin . In Munich, he joined the fraternity Turnerschaft Ghibellinia on. He received his doctorate from the historian Max Lenz in Berlin in 1911 and then began working as a volunteer at the Grand Ducal Secret Main Archive in Schwerin, which lasted until 1914 . After participating in World War I and being a prisoner of war, he was a research assistant at the Museum of Hamburg History from 1919 to 1926 . In 1926 he completed his habilitation in history at the University of Hamburg, which was founded in 1919 .

Activity in Schwerin

During his time in Schwerin, Jesse wrote the two-volume work Die Geschichte der Stadt Schwerin . Until 2005, when “Schwerin - History of the City” (Bernd Kasten / Jens-Uwe Rost) was published, it was the only coherent monograph from the development of the city to the end of the First World War. For this reason, the standard work was reissued as a reprint in 1995.

Activity in Braunschweig

Jesse went to Braunschweig in 1926, where he took up a position as assistant director at the Städtisches Museum on October 1st. He took over the management of the museum in 1932 as the successor to Franz Fuhse . In 1933 he became an adjunct professor for German folklore and cultural history at the TH Braunschweig . In 1940 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1942 to 1963 he held a lectureship in the history of coins and money at the University of Göttingen . His successor as director of the Municipal Museum was Bert Bilzer in 1953 . He was a member of the Numismatic Commission of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany .

The renowned historian and internationally recognized numismatist was the head of the Lower Saxony Mint Research Center. He was a co-initiator of the Braunschweig Scientific Society founded in 1943 . Jesse died in Braunschweig in 1971 at the age of 83.

Fonts (selection)

  • Mecklenburg and the Prager Friede 1635. Dissertation Berlin 1911. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . Vol. 76, 1911, pp. 161-182 .
  • Source book on the history of coins and money in the Middle Ages. Riechmann, Halle (Saale) 1924, (reprints: Scientia, Aalen 1968 and ibid 1983, ISBN 3-511-00266-4 ).
  • The Wendish coin association (= sources and representations on Hanseatic history. New series 6, ZDB -ID 503427-9 ). Verein für Hansische Geschichte, Lübeck 1928, (unchanged photomechanical reprint with additions and improvements: Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1967).
  • The inscriptions of the city of Braunschweig up to the year 1650. In: Abhandlungen der Braunschweigischen Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft. Volume 1, 1949, ISSN  0068-0737 , pp. 137-144 .
  • Coin and monetary history of Lower Saxony (= work pieces from the museum, archive and library of the city of Braunschweig. 15, ISSN  0175-3371 ). Orphanage printing house, Braunschweig 1952, (with portrait photo and dedication to Wilhelm Jesse on his 65th birthday).
  • The second bracteate find from Mödesse and the art of bracteates at the time of Henry the Lion (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. 21, ZDB -ID 121118-3 ). Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Braunschweig 1957 (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Volume 21; with a list of the writings of Wilhelm Jesse up to 1957).
  • The coins of the city of Braunschweig from 1499 to 1680 (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. 27). Based on the manuscript by Heinrich Buck. Orphanage printing and publishing house, Braunschweig 1962.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ CC sheets . Jhg. 1971, issue 2, p. 91.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 124.
personal data
SURNAME Jesse, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, numismatist and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Grabow
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1971
Place of death Braunschweig