Woldemar Harleß
Julius Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Woldemar Harleß (born March 27, 1828 in Bonn , † June 4, 1902 in Düsseldorf ) was a German historian and archivist . From 1866 to 1900 he headed the Prussian State Archives in Düsseldorf .
Life
Woldemar Harleß was the son of the Bonn doctor and professor of medicine Christian Friedrich Harleß and his second wife (née Saalmüller from Heldburg) and grandson of the humanist Gottlieb Christoph Harleß . He studied history and philology at the University of Bonn . After completing his doctorate (1853), he was employed at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (1854) and then briefly in school service before he took up an archivist position at the Düsseldorf State Archives in 1855 . In 1866 he was given the management of the house, which he held until he retired.
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he toured the archives in Alsace and the occupied French territories as a representative of the Prussian archive administration.
In 1873 he was briefly seconded to the Berlin Ministerial Archives and the Prussian Secret State Archives , but returned to the Düsseldorf State Archives in 1875. In addition to his work as an archivist, he continued to devote himself to historical and philological topics. In September 1900 he was retired as the Secret Archives Councilor.
From 1876 to 1901 he was editor of the " Zeitschrift des Bergisches Geschichtsverein " and in 1881 co-founder of the " Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde ".
literature
- Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , p. 223.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gottlieb Wilhelm August Hermann Harless, pages from his life and to his memory, Joh. Chr. Harleß Bonn 1844
- ↑ Woldemar Harleß: A recipe from the IX-XII century. In: Alemannia 18, 1890, p. 138 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harleß, Woldemar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harleß, Julius Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Woldemar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1902 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |