Wilhelm von Bippen (historian)
Wilhelm von Bippen (born November 5, 1844 in Lübeck , † August 22, 1923 in Bremen ) was a German archivist and an important Bremen historian .
biography
Wilhelm von Bippen was the son of the doctor and writer of the same name . After his school days at the Katharineum in Lübeck , which he graduated from high school at Easter 1864, he studied law at the University of Bonn , where he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity , but then history at the University of Göttingen . In 1868, he was here with a dissertation on the Versus de vita Vicelini and Sido of Neumünster Dr. phil. PhD . At the court of the Counts and Princes of Waldeck-Pyrmont in Arolsen , he was a prince educator .
In 1870 he was commissioned by the Bremen Council as the successor to Diedrich Ehmck with the processing of the Bremen document book . He wrote a large number of treatises on the history of Bremen and on cultural history.
In 1875 von Bippen became city archivist with the position of 3rd government secretary . By 1886 he had completed four volumes of the Bremen document book . Volume 5 finally followed in 1902. During this time, the city archive on the Tiefer in Bremen was relocated.
From 1887 he wrote a work on the history of Bremen, which appeared in 3 volumes from 1892 to 1904. From 1875 to 1881 and 1893 to 1912 he was chairman of the historical society in Bremen. He oversaw the publication of the Bremen yearbook . He also published the 19th century biography of Bremen in 1912 .
He was also secretary of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People from 1872 to 1874 . In a commission for the preservation of art historical monuments, he dealt with the architecture of parish and religious churches in Bremen. His biography on Mayor Johann Smidt is considered a late work . In 1894 he was elected a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
Due to health reasons, he resigned from the archives service in 1914, but took on this role as a substitute during the First World War .
Works (selection)
- Wilhelm Deecke a picture of life ; Hermann Böhlau publishing house, Weimar 1867.
- Critical investigation of the Versus de vita Vicelini and the so-called report of the Provost Sido von Neumünster. Lübeck: Rathgens 1868, plus dissertation Göttingen ( digitized version )
- Wilhelm von Bippen: Gerhard II (Archbishop of Bremen) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, pp. 734-736.
- The founding of the Lübeck Higher Appeal Court. in Hansische Geschichtsblätter , 1890/91, pp. 25–47.
- The Rathskeller in Bremen. Bremen: Schünemann 1899 ( digitized version )
- Archivist Hermann Post . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 21, Bremen 1906.
- Bremen biography of the 19th century , Bremen 1912.
- Smidt, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB), Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 488-494.
- Bippen, Wilhelm von : History of the City of Bremen; Bremen 1892–1904.
Honors
- The Bippenstraße in Bremen - Hemelingen , district Sebaldsbrück , was named after him in 1934.
literature
- Konrad Elmshäuser : From Lübeck to Bremen. To the estate of the historian and archivist Wilhelm von Bippen. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 82 (2003) 11–30 (contains biographical information on Bippen's ancestors and himself).
- Hermann Entholt : Bippen, Wilhelm v .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 251 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Prüser : Bippen, Wilhelm v. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Hrsg.): Bremische Biographie 1912-1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 43 (column 2) to p. 45 (column 2).
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm von Bippen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-305545 , No. 608
- ↑ Harald Lönnecker: "The topic was and remained without parallel appearance in German historical research": the Burschenschaftliche Historische Kommission (BHK) and the Society for Burschenschaftliche Geschichtsforschung eV (GfbG) (1898 / 1909-2009); a history of people, institutions and science. (Representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the 19th and 20th centuries 18) Heidelberg: Winter 2009 ISBN 9783825356729 , p. 96
- ↑ 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. 40.
- ↑ online at the SuUB Bremen: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46:1-214
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bippen, Wilhelm von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1923 |
| Place of death | Bremen |