Gustav Friedrich Dettmar Philippi (14 July 1853, in

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– 26 April 1930, in

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) was a German

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and historian. He studied

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at the

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, receiving his doctorate in 1876 with a dissertation on the

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.Friedrich Philippi
de.Wikisource Following graduation, he worked as an archivist at the state archives in Münster. In 1888, he was appointed head of the state archives in

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and, in 1897, returned to Münster as director of the archives.Wilfried Reininghaus, Friedrich Philippi. Archivar und Historiker
(biography in German) He served as chairman of the Historical Commission for Westphalia and was an honorary professor at the

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. He was also in charge of the archaeological excavation at

Haltern Haltern am See (''Haltern at the lake'', before December 2001 only Haltern) is a medium-sized town in the northern part of the district of Recklinghausen in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia. The town is located in the n ...

Selected works

* ''Das westfälische Vemegericht und seine Stellung in der deutschen Rechtsgeschichte'', 1888 – The Westphalian

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and its position in German legal history. * ''Die Chroniken des Mittelalters'' (with Hermann Forst, 1891) – The chronicles of the Middle Ages. * ''Zur Verfassungsgeschichte der Westfälischen Bischofsstädte'', 1894 – On the constitutional history of the Westphalian bishop cities. * ''Osnabrücker Urkundenbuch'' (with Max Bär; 1896–1902) – Osnabrück register. * ''Zur Osnabrücker Verfassungsgeschichte'', 1897 – Osnabrück constitutional history. * ''Der westfälische Friede'', 1898 – The

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. * ''Historisches und Topographisches über die Umgebung Halterns'' (with Theodor Ilgen, 1901) – History and topography concerning the environs of Haltern. * ''100 Jahre Preußischer Herrschaft im Münsterlande'', 1904 – 100 years of Prussian rule in Münsterland. * ''Siegel'', 1914 (documents and seals) * ''Einführung in die Urkundenlehre des deutschen Mittelalters'', 1920 – Introduction to the German Middle Ages. * ''Geschichte Westfalens'', 1926 – History of Westphalia. He was also the author of several biographies in the ''

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Philippi, Friedrich 1853 births 1930 deaths People from Elberfeld University of Bonn alumni Academic staff of the University of Münster German archivists 20th-century German historians 19th-century German historians Writers from Wuppertal