Schloss Detmold - Archiv mit Archivrat Kiewning

Hans Johann Karl Kiewning (20 August 1864 – 13 July 1939) was a German archive director, library director, historian, writer and painter. Kiewning was born in

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...

. He studied

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Prussi ...

, where in 1889 he received his doctorate. From 1891 to 1895 he worked for the Prussian Historical Institute at the Vatican in Rome. From 1917 to 1933 he served as director of the regional archives in

Detmold Detmold () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of . It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of ...

, and in the meantime, gave lectures at the local business academy (1919–24) and was regional director of the Lippe library in Detmold (1924–33). He married Marie Süpply. They had two sons, Bernhard (1900–1918) and Hans Georg (1903–1933). In 1930 he published a biography of Princess Pauline of Lippe titled ''Fürstin Pauline zur Lippe, 1769–1820''. He was also the author of ''Lippische Geschichte'', a history of

Lippe Lippe () is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Herford, Minden-Lübbecke, Höxter, Paderborn, Gütersloh, and district-free Bielefeld, which forms the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The d ...

up until the death of Bernhard VIII.Kiewning, Hans
Westfälische Geschichte He died in

Bad Reichenhall Bad Reichenhall (Central Bavarian: ''Reichahoi'') is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg in a basin encircled by the Chiemgau Alps (including Mount Staufe ...

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