Library of the Episcopal Seminary in Fulda

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Library of the Episcopal Seminary in Fulda
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Cathedral mechanic Fulda

founding 1572
Duration 350,000
place Fulda coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 12.7 ″  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 17 ″  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-Ful2
operator Diocese of Fulda
management Alessandra Sorbello-Staub
Website https://bib.thf-fulda.de/

The library of the Episcopal Seminary in Fulda (main library of the Theological Faculty ) is the central library facility and the leading diocesan library of the Diocese of Fulda. It is a public scientific library, one of the largest church-owned scientific libraries in Germany and a member of the Working Group of Catholic Theological Libraries (AKThB).

history

The library was founded in 1572 and has been in the Domdechanei since 1994. For the training of theologians in Fulda, the library has been united with the specialist seminar libraries of the theological faculty since 1985 . The library thus achieved the rank of a university library . She also performs diocesan library tasks.

Collection and focus of collection

The inventory currently comprises over 350,000 media (as of July 2018). The main focus of the library's collection is theology and philosophy with a special focus on the history of the church and diocese.

Its historical holdings include over 2000 medieval and modern documents, manuscripts and archival materials, 146 incunabula and around 40,000 prints from the 16th to 19th centuries. Century. It maintains two special collections on Georg Witzel and Athanasius Kircher and the archive for pastoral work aids (AfPA).

literature

  • Berthold Jäger: The literature supply of the theological faculty Fulda (= Fuldaer Hochschulschriften, Vol. 7). Josef Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7820-0596-1 .
  • Josef Huhn: Directory of the incunabula of the library of the seminary in Fulda. Fulda 1949.

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