Johann Martin Lappenberg
Johann Martin Lappenberg ( born July 30, 1794 in Hamburg, † November 28, 1865 ibid. ) Was a German historian.
Life
Lappenberg was born the son of the Hamburg physician Valentin Anton Lappenberg and his wife Catharina Margarethe Shillem. Here in Hamburg, he also visited the Johanneum and the Academic Gymnasium. With 19 years Lappenberg wanted to join the relief corps of the Russian General Baron Friedrich Carl von Tettenborn in March 1813. But his parents forbade him this and sent him for it to Edinburgh to study medicine. The trip to Scotland was difficult because it only because secretly to Helgoland and from there with a suitable ship could travel on the French occupation. In Edinburgh, he first studied medicine, but after a few lectures changed Lappenberg to historical and political studies ( history ). During this time he also joined with the writers Walter Scott and William Wordsworth friendship. Later he moved to the University of London.
1815 returned Lappenberg back to study with Professors Karl Friedrich Eichhorn and Friedrich Karl von Savigny at the Humboldt University in Berlin Jura. But a year later, in 1816, he moved to Göttingen and received his doctorate there with Professor Gustav von Hugo as Dr. jur .. It was followed by several years as a lawyer in Hamburg, where he was sent in 1819 to the Hamburg minister resident at the Prussian court. There in Berlin he liked the connection to the circle of Berlin Romanticism, especially the friendship with Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Friedrich Karl von Savigny and Rahel Varnhagen, but his service, he was more and more repugnant. Therefore Lappenberg 1823 went back to Hamburg, where he was archivist of the Senate Archives of the Hamburg Senate. Two years later, in 1825, he married Maria Emilie here Baur, daughter of Georg Friedrich Baur from Altona. In the same year his wife died. After an appropriate period of mourning, he married the younger sister of his deceased wife, Marianne Louise Baur. With her he had three daughters and three sons. His daughter Emilie was married to Wolfgang Sartorius von Walter Hausen.
1839 helped Lappenberg not only the association of Hamburg History form, he was also his first head. The biggest problems as an archivist, he had to cope with 1842, when the Great Fire of many archives were destroyed forever. On April 2, died in 1849 his second wife Marianne Louise. In the same year Lappenberg was sent as a delegate of the Hamburg Senate in the Bundestag to Frankfurt am Main. 1855 awarded him the University of Kiel, the title Dr. hc. Because he was threatened by his eye disease blindness, Lappenberg was 1863 with 69 years in retirement. Otto Beneke became his successor as Senate archivist. He was a conservative scholar who led a secluded life. Most reforms since 1848, he was reserved, if not suspicious.
Lappenberg was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In the National Library of St Petersburg Lappenberg discovered the Annales mosellani in a manuscript and he worked on the first edition of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae.
Works
- Program for third Secularfeyer the civic constitution of Hamburg on the 29th September 1828th Hamburg, Meissner, undated.
- History of England. Perthes, Hamburg 1.1834 - 11.1898
- Historical sources of the Archbishopric and the city of Bremen. Scientia Verlag Aalen, 1967 ( reprint of Bremen 1841)
- Chronicles Hamburg in Lower Saxony language. Sändig, Niederwalluf 1971, ISBN 3-500-23100-4 ( reprint of Hamburg 1861)
- Hamburg Rechtsalterthümer. s n, Hamburg 1907 ( reprint of 1845)
- Hamburg Urkundenbuch. Voss, Hamburg 1842
- Documentary history of the Hanseatic steel yard to London. Zeller, Osnabrück 1967 ( reprint of Hamburg 1851)
- Documentary history of the origin of the German Hanseatic League. 2 vols Perthes, Hamburg 1830 ( ed.; Author: Sartorius, Georg Friedrich Freiherr von Walter Hausen )