Paul Fridolin Kehr

Paul Fridolin Kehr ( born December 28, 1860 in Walter Hausen, † November 9, 1944 in Water Village, district of Kitzingen ) was a German historian and archivist Diploma sufferers

Life

Paul Fridolin, was born as the fourth child of the then rector of the citizens and Vocational School Walter Hausen, Karl return. The interest in diplomatics probably already aroused the Halberstadt headmaster Gustav Schmidt, on the downside Domgymnasium 1879, the Abitur. With him together he has papal documents and synopses for the Province of Saxony ( 1353-1378 ) published in 1889. Influential was the year at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna in 1884 when Theodor von Sickel, as his companions in 1885, first became acquainted with Rome and the Roman archives and libraries. Sickles has him as an employee for the issuance of diplomas Otto III. employed, but ended employment in 1888 abruptly. Since 1889 lecturer, return in 1893 professor in Marburg and in 1895 in Göttingen. 1903 Sweeping director of the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome, the predecessor of today's German Historical Institute in Rome. Sweeping married in 1908 Doris vom Baur. From this marriage, among other things was the daughter Gudila - later married to Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz - out. By 1941 he was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for German history, its successor institution, the Max Planck Institute for the History ( MPIG ) in Göttingen, and 1919-1934 President of the Central Directorate of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae (MGH ). After sweeping Rome In May 1915 had to leave, he was appointed as Director-General in Berlin the Prussian archives.

In return, the Pope Göttingen instrument factory (also Regesta Pontificum Romanorum or certificate Pope Pius work of the Foundation) going back. For whose department Italia Pontificia, he wrote eight volumes. For the MGH edited sweeping the charters of Louis the German, Carloman, Louis the Younger, Charles III. , Arnolfs and Henry III. (the latter on work done by Harry Bresslau ). For the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, he has the Germania sacra designed.

Sweeping died in waters village and was buried in the private cemetery of those Pölnitz at Castle Hundshaupten.

Writings

Fully registered at: Stefan Weiss: Paul- sweeping bibliography. In: Sources and Research in Italian archives and libraries. Vol 72, 1992, pp. 374-437.

Reproduction of important works: Paul Fridolin Kehr: Selected Writings. Edited by Rudolf Hiestand. 2 partial volumes. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-82522-6, 1418 S.