BOHMER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (17951863)

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BOHMER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (17951863) , German historian, son of Karl Ludwig Bohmer (d. 1817), was born at Frankfort-on-Main on the 22nd of April 1795. Educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Gottingen, he showed an

interest

INTEREST

in art and visited Italy; but returning to Frankfort he turned his attention to the study of history, and became
secretary of the Gesellschaft fur dltere deutsche Geschichtskunde. He was also archivist and then librarian of the city of Frankfort. Bohmer had a

great

GREAT

dislike of Prussia and the

Protestant

PROTESTANT

faith, and a corresponding affection for Austria and the Roman Catholic Church, to which, however, he did not belong. His

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

sense was, perhaps, somewhat warped; but his researches are of

great

GREAT

value to students. He died unmarried, at Frankfort, on the 22nd of October 1863. Bohmer's historical

work

WORK

was chiefly concerned with collecting and tabulating charters and other imperial documents of the middle ages. First appeared an abstract, the Regesta chronologico-diplomatica regum atque imperatorum Romanorum 9111313 (Frankfort, '831), which was followed by the Regesta chronologico-diplomatica Karolorum. Die Urkunden sdmtlicher Karolinger in kurzen Ausziigen (Frank-fort, 1833), and a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of Regesta imperii. For the period 13141347 (Frankfort, 1839) the Regesta was followed by three, and for the period 12461313 (Frankfort, 1844) by two supplementary volumes. The remaining period of the Regesta, as edited by Bohmer, is 11981254 (

Stuttgart

STUTTGART

, '849). These collections contain introductions and explanatory passages by the author. Very valuable also is the Fontes rerum Germanicarum (

Stuttgart

STUTTGART

, '8431868), a collection of

original

ORIGINAL

authorities for German history during the 13th and 14th centuries. The fourth and last volume of this

work

WORK

was edited by A. Huber after the author's death. Other collections edited by Bohmer are: Die Reichsgesetze 9001400 (Frankfort, 1832); Wittelsbachische Regesten von der Erwerbung des Herzogtums Bayern bis zu 1340 (Stuttgart, 1854); and Codex diplomaticus Moeno-Francofurtanus. Urkundenbuch der Reichsstadt Frankfurt (Frankfort, '836; new edition by F. Law, 1901). Other volumes and editions of the Regesta imperii, edited by J. Ficker, E. Muhlbacher, E. Winkelmann and others, are largely based on Bohmer's work. Bohmer left a great amount of unpublished material, and after his death two other works were published from his papers: Acta imperii selecta, edited by J. Ficker (

Innsbruck

INNSBRUCK

, 187o); and Regesta archiepiscoporum Maguntinensium, edited by C. Will (

Innsbruck

INNSBRUCK

, '8971886).
See J. Janssen, J. F. Bohmers Leben, Briefe and kleinere Schriften (Freiburg, 1868).

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