Johann Friedrich Böhmer
Johann Friedrich Böhmer ( born April 22, 1795 Frankfurt am Main, † October 22, 1863 ) was a German historian.
Life
Böhmer's father was the Rhine Count Councillor Karl Ludwig Böhmer, who before the French occupation first to Wetzlar and from there emigrated in 1792 to Frankfurt and got a job as a municipal office director.
Johann Friedrich spent his childhood and youth in great seclusion and suffered all his life from shyness and timidity. He cherished a romantic nostalgia for the imperial period and the kingdom, which he transferred to Bavaria, Austria and the Catholic Church. Against Protestantism, and particularly against Prussia, which he regarded as the main obstacle for the production of imperial unity, he developed a deep dislike. For conversion he could decide nevertheless never.
Bohemian visited the Municipal High School and the Lyceum Carolinum in Frankfurt. He studied law in Heidelberg and Göttingen, which he recorded in 1813 on his father's wish, he did not complete. Instead, he decided in 1817 when his father died on the advice of his friends to a trip to Italy. He stepped in conjunction with the Rome-based artists from the group of Nazarenes, especially with Peter von Cornelius, Julius Schnorr von Carol Field and Johann David Passavant, and devoted himself entirely to the study of the now ancient art. A friendship united him with Joseph Eutych Kopp.
In 1822 he returned to Frankfurt, because he was appointed to the administration of the Städel Art Institute. In 1823 he made the acquaintance of the Baron von Stein, who persuaded him to join the society for older German History class. He finally found his life's work.
In 1825 he was city archivist and librarian in 1830 his native town.
Bohemian died on 22 October 1863. He is buried at Frankfurt 's main cemetery. According to him, a street in Frankfurt's Westend district was named.
Works
Over the years he published numerous collections of records and sources of the early Middle Ages, including
- Regesta chronologico - diplomatica regum Romanorum atque imperatorum 911-1313 (Frankfurt 1831)
- The documents of the Roman kings and emperors from Conrad I. to Henry VII, 911-1313. Franz Varrentrapp. Frankfurt 1831
- The Reichs- laws 900-1400 proven by Johann Friedrich Böhmer. F. Varrentrapp. Frankfurt 1832
- Regesta chronologico - diplomatica Karolorum. The records of all the Carolingian in short extracts (Frankfurt 1833),
- Codex diplomaticus Moeno - Francofurtanus. Urkundenbuch the imperial city of Frankfurt (Frankfurt 1836)
- The Fontes Rerum Germanicarum (Stuttgart 1843-1868 ) is a collection of original documents in German history of the 13th and 14th century. ISBN 9781147061628 New edition under Volume 1: John victoriensis and other sources of history of Germany in the fourteenth century. J. G. Cotta'scher publisher. Stuttgart 1843
- Volume 3: Martyrdom Arnoldi [ Archiepiscopi Moguntini ] and other sources of history of Germany in the twelfth century, Stuttgart 1843
- Volume 2: Hermannus Altahensis and other historical sources in Germany in the thirteenth century. Stuttgart 1845 (Including the annals Sindelfingen )
- Regesta imperii inde usque ad annum from anno MCCCXIIII MCCXLVII [ (1314-1347) ] [ sic]: The deeds of the Emperor Louis of Bavaria, King Frederick the Fair and King John of Bohemia. Reprints: Siegmund Schmerber. Frankfurt 1859
- Additamentum primum ad Regesta imperii inde usque ad annum from anno MCCCXIIII MCCCXLVII. First supplementary booklet to the Regesten Emperor Louis the Bavarian and his time from 1314 to 1347. Siegmund Schmerber. Frankfurt 1841
- Regesta imperii inde usque ad annum from anno MCCXLVI MCCCXIII: The synopses of the Empire under Henry Raspe, William, Richard, Rudolf, Adolf, Albert and Henry VII: 1246-1313. J. G. Cotta'scher publisher. Stuttgart 1844
- Regesta imperii inde usque ad annum from 1198 anno 1254 Stuttgart: JG Cotta'scher Publisher 1849