Hans-Albrecht Koch

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Hans-Albrecht Koch (born July 21, 1946 in Lübeck ) is a German German studies specialist , university professor and librarian .

biography

Koch studied classical philology, German, archeology, history and philosophy. He received his doctorate in 1970 as Dr. phil. Koch was a research assistant from 1970 to 1971, and in 1972 a lecturer at the University of Würzburg . From 1972 to 1974 he completed a library traineeship at the State Library and Murhard Library of the City of Kassel and at the library school in Frankfurt / Main. In 1974 Koch was appointed library councilor at the Palatinate State Library in Speyer , and in 1977 lecturer at the library school in Frankfurt. From 1979 he was deputy director of the university library of the Free University of Berlin , from 1980 also a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin .

From 1982 to 1992, Koch was director of the Bremen State and University Library . Here he reorganized the library organization at the time and reduced the workforce from 250 to 150 positions. He also introduced data processing. Since 1983 he has been an honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin. From May to September 1992, Koch moved to the library of the new European University Viadrina in Frankfurt / Oder , "... as a" building aid "from Bremen for Frankfurt". After his return to Bremen he was professor for German and comparative literature history at the University of Bremen from 1992 ; since 1995 also honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Abroad he taught a. a. at the University degli Studi di Milano, the University "La Sapienza" (Roma Union and the University del Salenti (Lecce)). For many years he was secretary of the "Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche" (LIBER), for which he also published the journals "LIBER Bulletin" and "European Research Libraries Cooperation" (ERLC).

His research areas include a. Goethe and the time of Goethe; Singspiele and libretti, Matthias Claudius; Hugo von Hoffmansthal, for whom he has published several books, a. a. two historical-critical editions on Die Frau ohne Schatten and Arabella (both by S. Fischer) and a biography (dtv, also in Italian translation), Rudolf Alexander Schröder , for which he organized an international conference in Bremen in 2012; Literary translation; Encyclopedias and dictionaries. He also presented an introduction to modern German literary studies .

He was co-editor of the German Biographical Encyclopedia . He was also involved in several international exhibitions and the associated catalogs as author and editor: In the footsteps of the discoverers: Johann Georg Kohl / Progress of Discovery, Library of Congress, Washington DC 1963, The Silver Treasure of the Compagnie der Black Heads from Riga , Roselius -Haus, Bremen 1997; Mirror of the world; Manuscripts and books from three millennia , Foundation Martin Bommer Cologne. - The exhibition was also shown in the Schiller National Museum , Marbach aN, as well as in New York and Dresden from 2000–2001 .

He was also a member of the selection committee of the German National Academic Foundation . As a reviewer he was u. a. active for the cultural foundation of the federal states .

He has been retired since 2012.

Honors

In 2016 he was honored with the Festschrift Philologia sanat , ed. G. Rovagnati, P. Sprengel, Berlin, Frankfurt a. M.

literature

  • Yearbook of the German Libraries . Volume 54, 1991. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991. p. 518.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2007 . Volume 2. Saur, Munich 2007. p. 1842.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burkhard Straßmann, “A trap was set for me”, in: taz. die tageszeitung, dated September 17, 1992, [1]
  2. ↑ http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/lehrpersonal/koch.aspx
  3. ↑ https://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de/de/ueber-uns/lösungen/koch
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Hans-Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, literary scholar and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck