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Friedrich Noack

1858 – 1930

German cultural historian and author

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Lived 1858 – 1930 (aged 71). Friedrich Noack was a German art historian, historian, journalist, writer, pedagogue and librarian.

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.

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.

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Who was Friedrich Noack?

German cultural historian and author (1858-1930)

When was Friedrich Noack born?

Friedrich Noack was born on 20 April 1858 in Giessen.

When did Friedrich Noack die?

Friedrich Noack died on 1 February 1930 in Freiburg im Breisgau.

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Friedrich Noack was an art historian, historian, journalist, writer, pedagogue and librarian.

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Friedrich Noack was German.

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· Wikidata: Q100831

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