Libraries in Leipzig

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The city of Leipzig is home to numerous libraries and archives .

The first book collections go back to the monks of the monasteries St. Thomas (Augustinians), St. Georg (Benedictines), St. Paulus (Dominicans) and Zum Heiligen Geist (Franciscans). In addition, the University of Leipzig kept some collections accessible to professors. After the Reformation and the associated dissolution of the monasteries, the Leipzig University Library (Bibliotheca Albertina) was founded in 1539 , the largest library in Saxony. In the 19th century it became the most extensive university library in Germany.

The legacy of Huldrich Groß led to the founding of the council library (Bibliotheca senatus lipsiensis) in 1711 , which later became the Leipzig City Library . Most of the library's holdings were destroyed during the air raids on Leipzig in 1943. Today the Leipzig Music Library , part of the city library, is one of the largest specialist libraries in the Federal Republic. Reading and lending libraries, which were used by the bourgeoisie, were established in the 18th century. In 1828 Anton Philipp Reclam bought a lending library, the Literary Museum , and founded the Reclam publishing house . In the same century, workers' libraries were created under the direction of August Bebel . In addition, were in Leipzig Library of the German Society , the Comenius Library , the Central Geographical Library , Frauenbibliothek monaliesa , the Environmental Library Leipzig and the German Central Library for the Blind was founded.

In 1912, the best-known of the Leipzig libraries, the Deutsche Bücherei , established by the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels ( Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels) , has been a location of the German National Library since 2006 .

German National Library (DNB), formerly Deutsche Bücherei (DBB), in Leipzig

Cultural institutes

Educational institutions

Authorities and public administration

The building of the Old Grassimuseum (today: City Library)

Concerning the city of Leipzig

Literature and language

German library with book tower (center left). At the bottom of the picture: MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology

History and auxiliary historical sciences

Politics, law, social affairs and sociology

Educational science and pedagogy

The German Central Library for the Blind in Leipzig

Church, Philosophy and Religion

Art, music, dance and theater

The art history reference library of the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig is one of the largest museum libraries in Germany with 100,000 volumes. The Leipzig Bach Archive has the world's largest Bach collection.

  • Library in Hall 14 - art space for contemporary art
  • Library of the University of Graphics and Book Art Leipzig
  • Library of the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy" Leipzig
  • Library of the Contemporary Art Gallery
  • Library of the Bach Archive
  • Library of the Museum of Applied Arts
  • Historical library of the St. Thomas' Choir
  • Institute for Art and Universal History of the Karl Lamprecht Society
  • Art history library of the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • Theater studies secondary location of the Leipzig University Library
  • Dance Archive Leipzig
  • Art branch of the Leipzig University Library
  • Music branch of the Leipzig University Library

Health, medicine and psychology

Natural sciences

Main building Bibliotheca Albertina
  • Library of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig
  • Library of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
  • Library of the Natural History Museum Leipzig
  • Karl Sudhoff Institute for the History of Medicine and the Natural Sciences of the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig
  • Biosciences branch of the Leipzig University Library
  • Chemistry branch of the Leipzig University Library
  • Computer science branch (interim) of the Leipzig University Library
  • Mathematics branch (interim) of the Leipzig University Library
  • Physics branch of the Leipzig University Library

Earth science, agriculture, nature and environmental protection

The Leipzig Environmental Library is one of the largest public environmental libraries in Germany.

economy

Sports

The Sports Museum Leipzig has approximately 4,000 publications on one of the biggest sports history collections in Germany.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Leipzig: The development of the Leipzig libraries. (PDF file; 299 kB)

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