Albert Alois Müller

Albert Alois Müller also Albert A. Müller (born June 19, 1898 in Kriens ; † January 5, 1976 in Lucerne ; entitled to live in Ermensee ) was a Swiss librarian .

Life

The Catholic baptized, born Krienser Albert Alois Müller attended primary schools in Reussbühl then and Lucerne, the school in Lucerne. After obtaining the federal Matura , he completed an apprenticeship as a librarian at the Lucerne Cantonal Library, where he was elected librarian in 1921. After the Central and University Library Lucerne (ZHB Luzern) was created in 1951 through the merger of the Citizens' Library and the Cantonal Library, Albert Alois Müller was elected its first director, a position he held until he retired in 1965.

Albert Alois Müller, a member and district president of the Swiss People's Library and editor of Das neue Buch , died in 1976 at the age of 77 in Lucerne.

Works

• The dirty literature and its fight. Räber, Lucerne, 1930
• Protection of minors against junk literature. Lecture given at the annual meeting of the Swiss Confederation against Immoral Literature - Lucerne, January 31, 1931, A.-G. Gebr. Leemann & Co., Zurich-Selnau, 1931
• The stolen Bible . Detective novel. O. Walter A.-G., Constance, 1935
• The child's way to the book. Olten, 1938
• The Catholic People's Library: An Unsolved Problem. Volksvereins-Verlag, Lucerne, 1938
• Brief history of the Lucerne Cantonal Library. Lucerne, 1943
• Path to success in life Rhythm of Christian everyday life. Rex-Verlag, Lucerne, 1944
• Before the decision. Books and writings on the burning problems of our time. Compiled from the material available in the Lucerne Cantonal Library. Publication distribution: Renward Cysat, Lucerne, 1945
• The Lucerne Central Library., Lucerne, 1951
• Offensive inwards. Lahn-Verlag, Limburg, 1953

literature

• Louis Nagel, Stephen Taylor: Who's who in Switzerland: Including the Principality of Liechtenstein 1962–1963. A Biographical Dictionary Containing about 2600 Biographies of Prominent People in and of Switzerland (including the Principality of Liechtenstein), Nagel Publisher, Geneva, 1962, p. 328.
• Bruno Stephan Scherer, Central Swiss Writers' Association: Central Swiss Writers: Texts and Lexicon, Raeber, Lucerne, Stuttgart, 1977 ISBN 3-7239-0045-3 , p. 349.
• [Müller Albert Alois (1898-1976). Document collection], approx. 1918 ff., [Var.loc.]

Web links

• Dr. Albert Alois Müller (library director from 1951–1965) on the website of the Central and University Library in Lucerne