Arend Buchholtz

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Arend Buchholtz (born March 29, 1857 in Riga ; † October 29, 1938 in Berlin ) was a library assistant and editor for the Rigas City Gazette , a corresponding member of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia and the first director of the Berlin City Library .

Life

Arend Buchholtz was a son of August Wilhelm Buchholtz and his wife Henriette, née Bärnhoff.

On January 1, 1890, Buchholtz began his service as Berlin's magistrate librarian. In 1892 he took over the management of the city's public libraries. Through him, efforts to found a central Berlin city library received a decisive boost. Buchholtz handed the Berlin magistrate a memorandum in which he called for reading halls to be set up next to the public libraries. According to the resolution of the Berlin city council on February 3, 1898, the magistrate had to take care of the establishment of a central library. However, it took even more intensive efforts by Buchholtz until the final decision of the city council to found a city library was taken on June 6, 1901.

Buchholtz created a systematic division of the holdings into 18 main groups, which will continue to be used by the main library.

Works

  • Monuments in the Riga Cathedral
  • History of Book Printing in Riga 1588–1888. Festschrift of the book printers in Riga to commemorate the introduction of the art of book printing in Riga 300 years ago, Riga: Müller's printing house 1890.
  • The public libraries and reading halls of the city of Berlin 1850 to 1900. Festschrift of the city of Berlin on the 50th anniversary of the public libraries, Berlin: Holten 1900.
  • The story of the Lessing family , 2 vols., Berlin: v. Holten 1909 ( digitized version ).
  • Ernst von Bergmann: with Bergmann's war letters from 1866, 1870/71 and 1877 , Leipzig: Vogel 1911 ( digitized version )
  • Carl Robert Lessing's collection of books and manuscripts , 3 vols., Berlin: v. Holten 1916 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 37f.

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personal data
SURNAME Buchholtz, Arend
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchholtz, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German library assistant and editor for the Rigas city papers, first director of the Berlin city library
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1938
Place of death Berlin