Bernhard Fabian

Bernhard Fabian (born September 29, 1930 in Waldenburg) is a German literary and book scholar .

Life

Fabian studied English literature , American studies , history and philosophy at the University of Marburg , where he was in 1955 with a thesis on Alexis de Tocqueville's image of America PhD . In 1960 the habilitation followed . In 1962 he was given a chair at the University of Münster . Until his retirement in 1996, Fabian was Professor of English Studies in Münster and director of the English seminar there and of the Institutum Erasmianum .

He has made significant contributions in the field of book and library studies . His book, library and research in the humanities , published in 1983, provided the impetus for the collection of German prints . One of his best-known works is the publication of the handbook of historical book collections .

Honors

• 2002: Honorary doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin for outstanding book and library research
• 2007: Max Herrmann Prize
• 2013: Karl Preusker Medal for "outstanding services by the English scholar and book scholar to the library system"
• Member of the Leibniz Society for Science in Berlin .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Fabian in the catalog of the German National Library
• The English Literature, Volume 2: Authors. dtv, Munich 2000 ISBN 3423044950 full text as scan, ed. Fabian, other authors besides him: Tetzeli von Rosador , Willi Erzgräber , Wolfgang Weiß. 175 short accounts by authors from the Middle Ages to the present day

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Fabian: Book, library and humanities research. On problems of the supply and production of literature in the Federal Republic of Germany. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1983 (=  series of publications by the Volkswagenwerk Foundation, 24). University and State Library Düsseldorf 2013: Digitized
2. ^ Bernhard Fabian: Handbook of the historical book holdings in Germany, Austria and Europe. Digitized by Günter Kükenshöner, Hildesheim 2003 ( digitized ).
3. ^ Page of the Institute for Library and Information Science at HU Berlin .
4. ↑ Max Herrmann Prize 2007 .
5. ↑ Library & Information Germany (BID) : Essential impulses for research on book history: Bernhard Fabian receives the Karl Preusker Medal 2013. (PDF; 198 kB) September 26, 2013, accessed on September 26, 2013 .  
6. ^ Page of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin e. V.