Adolf Schmidt (librarian)

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Adolf Schmidt (born December 27, 1857 in Darmstadt ; † October 27, 1935 there ) was a German librarian , library director and binding researcher .

Life

Adolf Schmidt was born in Darmstadt in 1857 as the son of a court trimmers . He attended the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in his hometown and from 1876 studied German and Romance languages in Giessen and Strasbourg . He was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1881 he was employed as an accessist at the Grand Ducal Court Library (from 1920 "Hessian State Library") in Darmstadt. From 1886 he was employed as library secretary and from 1895 he was court librarian. In July 1904 he succeeded the late library director Gustav Nick . He held this office until his retirement on December 31, 1923.

Schmidt has made the treasures of the Darmstadt library known in numerous publications, for example with Baron Hüpsch and his cabinet. A contribution to the history of the court library and the museum in Darmstadt (1906). He was particularly interested in historical manuscripts and incunabula.

With book covers from the XIV. – XIX. In the 19th century in the State Library of Darmstadt from 1921 he did fundamental work for modern binding research. Four years later, Max Joseph Husung published an equally large-format illustration book book covers from the Prussian State Library in Berlin. Explained in a historical sequence after he had already written about the Darmstadt book covers in 1922.

Schmidt has made several attempts to build a new building for the Darmstadt library. There was already a finished plan for a new building by Paul Meissner on Friedensplatz , which, however, was not implemented for cost reasons. A plan to merge the library and the state archive in the Ludwigsbahnhof on Steubenplatz , which was no longer needed from 1912 , was also not carried out due to the beginning of the First World War .

Schmidt was a long-time member of the board of the Association of German Librarians . From 1904 on he was a member of the Prussian commission for the publication of a complete catalog of the cradle prints and from 1913 a member of the administrative committee of the German library in Leipzig.

Adolf Schmidt, who remained unmarried, died in Darmstadt in October 1935 at the age of almost 78.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the bibliography of older German literature . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 10 (1893), pp. 433–456 ( online ).
  • An anthology of German songs from 1529 in the Grand Ducal Court Library in Darmstadt . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 12 (1895), pp. 113–129 ( online ).
  • Line counting in printing units. Tables of contents and alphabetical registers in incunabula . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 13 (1896), pp. 13-29 ( online ).
  • Baron Hüpsch and his cabinet. A contribution to the history of the court library and the museum in Darmstadt. Darmstadt, Hist. Ver. fd Großh. Hessen, 1906 (published by the Hist. Ver. Fd Großh. Hessen for the inauguration of the new museum in Darmstadt).
  • Baron Hüpsch and his cabinet. A contribution to the history of the court library and the museum in Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1906.
  • Book covers from the XIV. – XIX. Century in the State Library in Darmstadt. 162 ills. On 100 plates u. 2 illustrations in the text, evaluated and described by Adolf Schmidt, Hiersemann, Leipzig 1921.

literature

  • University and State Library Darmstadt (Ed.): Neue Mitte (n). The library buildings of the Technical University of Darmstadt , Darmstadt, 2014.
  • Schmidt, Adolf, librarian, binding researcher . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 9 : Schlumberger – Thiersch . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096502-5 , p. 30 ( books.google.de - limited preview).
  • Karl Esselborn: Adolf Schmidt. In: Zentralblatt für das Bibliothekwesen. Vol. 54, 1937, pp. 334-344.
  • Adolph Schmidt. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Stuttgart 2006, p. 792.
  • Silvia Uhlemann: Adolf Schmidt - Director of the Hessian State Library. In: 450 years of knowledge - collecting - conveying. From the court library to the university and state library Darmstadt 1567-2017 , Darmstadt: Justus von Liebig Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-87390-402-6 , pp. 182-185.
  • Erich Zimmermann (Ed.): Electricity through the centuries. Contributions to the history of the Hessian State and University Library Darmstadt. Frankfurt am Main 1967.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ulb.tu-darmstadt.de
  2. ↑ Book covers from the Prussian State Library in Berlin. Explained in a historical sequence. Leipzig, Hiersemann, 1925.
  3. ↑ Book covers from the Darmstadt State Library. In: magazine for book lovers. NF 14, 1922.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1935
Place of death Darmstadt