Albrecht Kirchhoff
Albrecht Kirchhoff (born January 30, 1827 in Berlin , † August 20, 1902 in Leipzig ) was a German bookseller and librarian.
Life
Albrecht Kirchhoff was the second son of the history and portrait painter Johann Jakob Kirchhoff and his wife Wilhelmine geb. Reuter. His older brother was the philologist Adolf Kirchhoff , his younger brother the bookseller Otto Kirchhoff (1834-1910).
Kirchhoff completed his apprenticeship as a bookseller at the Duncker & Humblot publishing house and joined the JC Hinrich'sche bookstore in Leipzig in 1848. Here he worked as a bibliographer on the half-year catalog and the weekly lists of new publications. The Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig awarded him an honorary doctorate for his study The Medieval Manuscript Dealers. In 1856 he founded the Kirchhoff und Wigand antiquarian bookshop with Georg Wigand , which he ran alone after Wigand's death in 1858. In 1863 the younger brother Otto became his partner. Until his death, Kirchhoff published 1025 antiquarian catalogs.
In 1861 Kirchhoff became head of the library of the German Booksellers Association and initiated its expansion into a specialist library through a systematic reorganization of the holdings.
In preparation for the history of the German book trade , Kirchhoff published the Archive for the History of the German Book Trade from 1878 to 1898 .
literature
- Hans Lülfing : Kirchhoff, Albrecht. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 648 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Albrecht Kirchhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
Remarks
- ^ Albrecht Kirchhoff: The manuscript dealers of the Middle Ages . 2nd, revised edition. Self-published, Leipzig 1853.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirchhoff, Albrecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 1902 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |