Anton Klette

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anton Klette

Anton Klette (born February 24, 1834 in Mariendorf near Berlin ; † unknown) was a German librarian. As the first full-time senior librarian at the Jena University Library from 1870 to 1878, he advocated the independence of the librarian profession.

Life

Klette studied classical philology in Bonn from 1851 to 1854 ; his academic teachers there were Friedrich Ritschl and Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker . In 1854, Klette received his doctorate from Ritschl with the dissertation Exercitationes Terentianae (printed in 1855 by Carl Georgi in Bonn, 23 pages, octave format). After Heinrich Brunn left , Ritschl appointed Klette as its custodian in 1856 as part of the reorganization of the seminar library. Klette also helped Ritschl with the publication of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie magazine, of which he was also nominally named as editor from 1869 to 1876. After Ritschl's departure (1865), Klette supported his successor in Bonn, Jacob Bernays , in the same way. In 1868 he published a directory of AW v. Schlegel's posthumous letter collection. Along with communication of selected samples of the correspondence with the von Humboldt brothers, F. Schleiermacher, BG Niebuhr and J. Grimm .

In 1870, Klette was appointed senior librarian at the Jena University Library. He was not the first full-time university library manager in Germany - Anton Ruland (1809–1874) had been a full-time senior librarian in Würzburg from 1850 - but was one of the pioneers. In the same year, the Freiburg philologist Wilhelm Brambach resigned from his part-time work as senior librarian and changed the statutes of the office so that he and Klette's fellow student August Wilmanns from Bonn could employ a specialist as a full-time librarian. In the following year, Klette presented his views on the necessary “independence of the library profession” in an anonymous program publication entitled The independence of the library profession, with consideration for the German university libraries . In 1873 he was appointed professor.

During this time, Klette also worked as the responsible editor of the Jenaer Literatur-Zeitung , which he was responsible for from 1874 to 1879 on behalf of the university as an organ for scientific publication activities at home and abroad. and remained loyal to the Rheinisches Museum as publisher until 1876 . Under his leadership, however, the library fell into mismanagement, so that Klette left office in 1878. Dziatzko states that Klette resigned "for personal reasons". Klette had the last volume of the Jenaer Literatur-Zeitung published from Magdeburg, where he had moved at the beginning of the year.

After 1879, Klette's trail is lost. Wolfgang Stammler states that burdock is "lost in America". Another clue is an article in the magazine for German studies from 1992: Klette was "lost in New York from 1896". A certain Qu. Decimus published in the July / September 1905 edition of the Prussian Yearbooks a memorandum entitled The Dignity of the Library Profession (Vol. 121, pp. 504-510), which he introduces with the words: “A few days ago In Wiesbaden a librarian closed his eyes, whose name had meant a program in the last few decades: Anton Klette, the pioneer for the independence of the library profession. ”In the same issue, however, the author apologizes for this“ lapse ”; the deceased was actually Theodor Klette .

literature

  • Karl Dziatzko : Development and Current Status of Scientific Libraries in Germany , Leipzig 1893
  • Richard Mummendey: The librarians of the scientific service of the University Library Bonn . P. 30, in: Bonn Contributions to Library and Book Studies 19 (1968)
  • Otto Ribbeck : Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl: A biographical attempt , Volume 1, Leipzig 1879

Web links

Wikisource: Anton Klette  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ribbeck (1879) 257
  2. ^ Ribbeck (1879) 442
  3. ↑ Dziatzko (1893) 27
  4. ^ Leipzig: Teubner; Anniversary edition Marburg 1897
  5. ↑ http://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/content/main/journals/jlz.xml
  6. ↑ Handbook of historical book holdings in Germany, Volume 20: Thuringia , p. 56; see. Fabian manual : ThULB, section 1.38
  7. ↑ Dziatzko (1893) 28
  8. ↑ Deutsche Philologie im Aufriss , Volume 1 [1952], p. 358
  9. ^ Journal of German Studies , New Volume 2 (1992), p. 352
personal data
SURNAME Burdock, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariendorf near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1879