Axel von Harnack

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Friedrich Hermann Julius Axel Harnack , from 1914 von Harnack (born September 12, 1895 in Wilmersdorf , † June 17, 1974 in Tübingen ) was a German librarian , historian and philologist .

family

Axel von Harnack came from a family of scholars, he was the youngest child of the theologian and science organizer Adolf von Harnack and his wife Amalie Thiersch (1858–1937). Adolf von Harnack and his seven children, including their son Axel, were raised to the Prussian nobility on March 22, 1914 in Berlin with a diploma from June 9, 1914 .

Axel von Harnack married Hedwig Thienemann (born May 20, 1901 in Essen; † August 25, 1990 in Tübingen) on September 8, 1924 in Essen , the daughter of high school professor Dr. phil. Wilhelm Thienemann and Bertha Baedeker .

Life

After attending school at Bismarck High School in Berlin-Wilmersdorf studied Harnack history and romance studies in Freiburg and Berlin, where he in 1920 with a dissertation on Friedrich Daniel Bassermann and the German Revolution of 1848-49 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate. He then entered the academic library service and in 1923 became assistant librarian, in 1927 library councilor at the Prussian State Library , of which his father was director from 1905 to 1921. From 1927 to 1928 he worked at the library of the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute , then again at the Prussian State Library. In 1944 Harnack was seconded to the Tübingen University Library , where he was promoted to library director in 1956 (with effect from October 1, 1937) . In 1960 he retired, but remained a private lecturer in library science and historiography at the University of Tübingen , where he had taught since his habilitation ( The Italian Libraries from Enlightenment to the Present ) in 1947.

Harnack wrote a biography of his older brother, the Prussian district president and resistance fighter Ernst von Harnack (1888–1945), and was the editor and editor of the estate of his father Adolf von Harnack. In 1947 he also published his memories of the 1942/43 trial against his cousin, the resistance fighter Arvid Harnack , and his wife Mildred .

Fonts

  • Friedrich Daniel Bassermann and the German Revolution of 1848/49. Oldenbourg, Munich 1920.
  • (as ed.): Adolf von Harnack: From the workshop of the perfected. As a conclusion to his speeches and essays. Töpelmann, Giessen 1930.
  • (as ed., together with Agnes Zahn-Harnack): Adolf von Harnack: Selected speeches and essays. de Gruyter, Berlin 1951.
  • Ernst von Harnack (1888-1945). A fighter for Germany's future. Schwenningen 1951.

Articles (selection)

  • The academies of science . In: Fritz Milkau (Ed.): Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft, Volume 1, Harrassowitz, Berlin 1931, pp. 850–876.
  • The library of Adolf Harnack and Harnack as librarian. In: Die Christliche Welt, vol. 46 (1932), col. 966–972.
  • The library of Adolf von Harnack . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 49 (1932), pp. 341-350.
  • News from Italy . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , vol. 49 (1932), pp. 596–602.
  • The 31st German Librarians' Day in Tübingen. Outer course. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 52 (1935), pp. 401–405.
  • The handwritten estate of Adolf von Harnack. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 56 (1939), pp. 59–64.
  • The provision of information as a library task. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 57 (1940), pp. 16–22.
  • Use of the real catalog of the Berlin State Library . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 59 (1942), pp. 322–341.
  • Arvid and Mildred Harnack. Memories of her trial in 1942/43. In: The present. No. 26/27, Freiburg, January 31, 1947, pp. 15-18 ( online; PDF ).
  • Handwritten bequests from politicians and scholars. Significance, description, utilization. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 61 (1947), pp. 261–271.
  • The university library as part of the entire university. Inaugural lecture, held on June 11, 1947. In: Universitas, vol. 2 (1947), pp. 1123–1128.
  • The German Revolution of 1848/49 as a task for the historian . In: Die Sammlung, Vol. 3 (1948), pp. 261–271.
  • Conversations as sources of history . In: Swiss contributions to general history, Volume 6 (1948), pp. 21–36.
  • On the security of historical knowledge . In: Neue Schweizer Rundschau, NF Volume 16 (1948), pp. 628–631.
  • Thoughts on memoirs and diaries . In: Die Welt als Geschichte, Vol. 10 (1950), pp. 28–38.
  • What do we expect from a good biography? In: Universitas, Vol. 7 (1952), pp. 1195-1202.
  • The appeal of Kaiser Wilhelm II at the outbreak of the First World War. In: Die Neue Rundschau, vol. 64 (1953), pp. 612–620.
  • The autobiography - its essence and its effect. In: Universitas, Vol. 10 (1955), pp. 689-698.
  • Adolf v. Harnack in his relationship to the book. In: Boris Rajewski (Hrsg.): From the German research of the last decades. Dr. Dedicated to Ernst Telschow on the occasion of his 65th birthday, October 31, 1954, Thieme, Stuttgart 1956, pp. 24–28.
  • Librarian in the “Third Reich”. Cultural and political memories of the Berlin State Library. In: Neue deutsche Hefte, Vol. 3 (1956/1957), pp. 123–132.
  • The Italian Libraries from the Enlightenment to the Present. In: Georg Leyh (Ed.), Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft, 2nd edition, Volume 3, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1956, pp. 492-581.
  • Three librarians from the Berlin State Library from the recent past. In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, Vol. 4 (1957), pp. 11–22.
  • Who should get a biography? In: Universitas, Vol. 12 (1957), pp. 181-186.
  • Thoughts on the design of the history course. In: Die Welt als Geschichte, vol. 20 (1960), pp. 1–9.
  • Our relationship with our books. In: Universitas, Vol. 15 (1960), pp. 753-766.
  • Memories of the founding time of the "Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science". In: Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, vol. 16 (1963), pp. 435-438.

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ Source: Eveline Bartlitz : "... His always ready pen never stood still" ( Wilhelm Altmann on his 150th birthday) in Forum Musikbibliothek, 2012 issue 1 p. 33
personal data
SURNAME Harnack, Axel von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harnack, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German library scholar and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Wilmersdorf
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 1974
Place of death Tübingen