Salomon Frankfurter

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Salomon Friedrich Frankfurter (born November 9, 1856 in Pressburg , Austrian Empire ; died September 24, 1941 in Vienna ) was an Austrian librarian.

Life

Grave of Salomon Frankfurter and his wife Sophie in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Salomon Frankfurter was a son of Emanuel Frankfurter, who worked for the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG) in Vienna, and his second wife Johanna Wertheimer. His older brother Leopold Frankfurter emigrated to the USA in 1896, where his son Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) made a career as a lawyer.

Frankfurter married Sofie Chajes-Horowitz (1874–1925) in 1897. Her daughter Alice Frankfurter, later Lisa Frank (born 1900) was secretary of the Vienna Hagenbund from 1928 and fled to the USA in 1938.

Frankfurter attended the Talmud Torah School in Leopoldstadt and graduated from the Academic Gymnasium . He studied classical and German philology in Vienna and Berlin. In Vienna he was a scholarship holder of the archaeological-epigraphic seminar and received his doctorate in 1883 with a dissertation on the authorship of the Scriptores Historiae Augustae .

Frankfurter was employed as a trainee at the University Library in Vienna from 1881 and in 1884 became a consultant for archeology, education and Judaism. In 1909 he became a Frankfurt consultant for libraries and Jewish cultural affairs in the Ministry of Culture . In 1910 he was promoted to vice director of the Vienna University Library and on October 28, 1919 to director. He received the title of Hofrat . Frankfurter became a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig.

Frankfurter has worked in various specialist magazines. Frankfurter retired in 1923 and received the honorary title of professor. In the corporate state in 1934 his appeal was made in the Federal Cultural Council .

In addition to his work as a librarian, he pursued archeological interests and in 1891 became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute , from 1900 also of the Austrian Archaeological Institute , and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnuntum Association .

Frankfurter was a member of various commissions of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien.

After the annexation of Austria , Frankfurter was arrested in March 1938 and only released after the intervention of the British politician Nancy Astor . His private library was robbed by the National Socialists in 1940.

His grave, which was dedicated to the honorary grave of the City of Vienna after 1945 , is located in the new Jewish section of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate 4, Group 2, Row 3, No. 16).

Honors

Frankfurter received the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order in 1908 and the Officer's Cross of the Greek Order of Savior in 1911 . In the Republic of Austria in 1931 he received the Great Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and in the corporate state in 1936 the Commander's Cross of the Austrian Cross of Merit with the ribbon .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Wilhelm Kubitschek : Guide through Carnuntum . Vienna: R. Lechner, 1891.
  • Count Leo Thun-Hohenstein , Franz Exner and Hermann Bonitz . Contributions to the history of the Austrian teaching reform. Vienna: Hölder, 1893.
  • Thun-Hohenstein, Count Leo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 178-212.
  • (Ed.): Serta Harteliana. Festschrift Wilhelm von Hartel . Vienna: F. Tempsky, 1896.
  • The old Jewish education and instruction in the light of modern endeavors . Lecture. Vienna: Löwit, 1910.
  • Wilhelm von Hartel. One life and one work. For the unveiling of the memorial in the university on June 9, 1912 . Vienna / Leipzig 1912.
  • Josef Unger . The parental home - the youth 1828–1875 . Vienna: Braumüller, 1917.
  • The training of middle school teachers. The Eötvös College in Budapest and its role models . Vienna: Gerold, 1919.
  • Austria's education system. The elementary, middle and middle schools . Vienna: Fromme, 1920.
  • Dr. R. Kukula's memoirs. Dedicated to the friends of the truth . Vienna 1926.
  • Salomon Ehrmann , December 19, 1854 - October 24, 1926. A memorial sheet . In: Menorah: Jewish family paper for science, art and literature, 4th year, issue 12 (December 1926), pp. 666–669.
  • Michael Holzmann . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , vol. 49, 1932, pp. 146–148.
  • Gottlieb August Crüwell † . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , vol. 49, 1932, pp. 188–191.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Salomon Frankfurter  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The gravestone inscription incorrectly names 1865 as the year of birth
  2. ^ Walter Pongratz: History of the University Library Vienna , 1977, p. 131
personal data
SURNAME Frankfurter, Salomon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frankfurter, Salomon Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian librarian
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1941
Place of death Vienna