Arnulf Liebing

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Arnulf Liebing (born June 3, 1927 in Leipzig ; † November 12, 2009 in Würzburg ) was a German antiquarian , author and programmer .

Life

After military service and imprisonment , he trained as an antiquarian in Leipzig and Berlin from 1946 . Later he became the managing partner of the company "Journalfranz" Arnulf Liebing GmbH (later Liebing GmbH) in Würzburg, a globally active antiquarian bookshop that was founded in Leipzig in 1923 under the name L. Franz & Co. as a specialist antiquarian for magazine replenishment in academic libraries was. In Würzburg , in addition to the magazine antiquariat, the company also looked after the area of ​​"history of science" and published reprints of out-of-print works. At the same time Liebing was managing partner of the Physica publishing house .

plant

Liebing wrote several specialist articles in the Börsenblatt for the German book trade on business problems in the antiquarian bookshop and book trade . Since 1979 he has also dealt with the implementation of workflows in the antiquarian bookshop in computer procedures . From 1985 onwards Liebing developed a DOS -based PC program for antiquarian warehouse management, which was further developed into comprehensive antiquarian software. From 1988 this software was sold under the name PAL-Antiquariatsprogramm. In addition, he dealt with the open source text typesetting system TeX and LaTeX .

At the “Deutsche Buchhändlerschule” of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, he taught the topic “Introduction to Antiquarian Studies” (95th - 100th course).

Publications

  • Legal issues when reprinting academic works in the public domain. BBl. 1961 From the antiquarian bookshop p. 1089-1094 and BBl. 1962 From the second-hand bookshop pp. 219–220.
  • Can the profession of antiquarian be learned? BBl. 1963 Supplement Der Junge Buchhandel pp. 80–81.
  • On the question of the cheapest order quantities. BBl. 1970. pp. 2070-2072.
  • German reality or the shoddy discounts of academic publishers. BBl. 1973 pp. 50-53.
  • One more retail price calculation. BBl. 1973, pp. 2070-2071.
  • (in cooperation with R. Bernard): Praxis der EDV-Introduction Würzburg - Vienna, 1982 (= Betriebspraxis Vol. 3) ISBN 3-7908-0273-5
  • First work with TeX. An introduction to LaTeX2ε. Munich, London etc. 1996. ISBN 3-8272-9521-1
  • Serial letters with LaTeX DTK 1999 pp. 35 - 38
  • Handbook for the book and graphic collector. Würzburg, 2008. ISBN 978-3-8260-3751-1
  • Abbreviations: BBl. = Börsenblatt for the German book trade , Frankfurt edition.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTK = The TeXnian Comedy. German-speaking user association TeX.
personal data
SURNAME Liebing, Arnulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German antiquarian, author and programmer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2009
Place of death Wurzburg