Friedrich Noack
Encyclopedia
Friedrich Noack, who wrote under the pseudonym F. Idus, (20 April 1858, Gießen
- 1 February 1930, Freiburg im Breisgau
) was a German cultural historian and author, who wrote several articles for the Künstlerlexikon (arts dictionary) Thieme-Becker
.
In 1886 he translated Sebastian Brant
's "Narrenschiff" and published it with his own illustrations.
For his work on the Germans in Rome in the 18th century, he devised a comprehensive archive of notes. On 18,000 slips of paper, it contains over 11,000 entries on artists active in Rome and their clients, usually in Gabelsberger shorthand
, but also in newspaper cuttings and archive statements. Today the material is stored in the archive of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and is accessible online.
Gießen
Gießen, also spelt Giessen is a town in the German federal state of Hesse, capital of both the district of Gießen and the administrative region of Gießen...
- 1 February 1930, Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
) was a German cultural historian and author, who wrote several articles for the Künstlerlexikon (arts dictionary) Thieme-Becker
Thieme-Becker
Thieme-Becker is the commonly used abbreviation for the German encyclopaedia of artist biographies in 37 volumes with the full title Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. It was founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker and later continued by Hans Vollmer...
.
In 1886 he translated Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant was an Alsatian humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff .-Biography:...
's "Narrenschiff" and published it with his own illustrations.
For his work on the Germans in Rome in the 18th century, he devised a comprehensive archive of notes. On 18,000 slips of paper, it contains over 11,000 entries on artists active in Rome and their clients, usually in Gabelsberger shorthand
Gabelsberger shorthand
Gabelsberger shorthand, named for its creator, is a form of shorthand previously common in Germany and Austria. Created circa 1817 by Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, it was first fully described in the 1834 textbook Anleitung zur deutschen Redezeichenkunst oder Stenographie and became rapidly...
, but also in newspaper cuttings and archive statements. Today the material is stored in the archive of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and is accessible online.
Works
- Des alten Sebastian Brand Neues Narrenschiff. Entdeckt und herausgegeben von Dr. F. Idus. Düsseldorf: Bagel 1886.
- Deutsches Leben in Rom 1700 bis 1900. Stuttgart 1907
- Das Deutsche Rom. Rome 1912
- Das Deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters. 2 volumes., Stuttgart 1927.