Bruno Claussen (Librarian)

Bruno Claussen (born January 26, 1880 in Heide (Holstein) , † September 25, 1958 in Rostock ) was a German librarian .

Live and act

Claussen was the son of a doctor. After graduating from the Meldorfer School of Academics , he began to study law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1902 he became active in the Corps Franconia Tübingen . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1906 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. From January 1907 he was a volunteer at the Bremen City Library with Henry Seedorf (1863–1922). This was followed by positions as a research assistant at the Württemberg State Library and the Freiburg University Library . On October 1, 1912, he was appointed librarian at the Rostock University Library and in 1934 its first full-time director. Under his leadership the new building of the university library was planned, from which the warehouse building could be completed by the outbreak of war in 1939. In 1945 he saved the Blücher monument in Rostock from destruction.

Claussen was never a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . After 1945 he was initially able to continue to exercise his office under the Soviet military administration; however, he was replaced in 1949 as part of the reorganization of the university. In 1950 he received an employment contract to develop the manuscripts of the library until he was completely dismissed in 1952 at the instigation of his successor. Claussen's particular interest was in researching the old stock . In doing so, he made some sensational finds such as the Rostock songbook , the reconstruction of a Middle Low German songbook from around 1478, the leaves of which were used as waste in bindings in the 16th century . He examined Rostock's early printers such as Ludwig Dietz and the brothers' printing house from living together in the Michaeliskloster in Rostock . For over four decades he worked, initially together with Conrad Borchling , on the complete bibliography of Low German literature up to 1800 with evidence of 5,580 titles ( Borchling-Claussen , BC ). From 1933 until its dissolution in 1946, he was a member and from 1935 managing director of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg .

His son Rolf Claussen (1932–2003) had studied medicine in Tübingen and Rostock. As a doctor in Kassel, he became an important bookplate collector . Son and father Claussen are represented with biographical chapters in the current book on the history of the University of Rostock.

Works

• The termination of indirect ownership according to the German Civil Code with a look back at the principles of Roman law. Heidelberg, Jur.Fak., Diss. 1906.
• Rostock Low German song book from 1478. Rostock: Hinstorff 1919.
• Low German bibliography (until 1800). (with Conrad Borchling ) Neumünster 1931–1957.

literature

• Carl Meltz: Bruno Claussen in memory . In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie , Vol. 6, 1959, pp. 398–400.
• P. Kretschmann: Claussen, Bruno . In: Olaf Klose (Ed.): Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon , Vol. 1, Neumünster: Wachholtz 1970, pp. 112–113.
• Hanno Lietz: Bruno Claussen at the Rostock University Library 1912–1949. Booklet accompanying the exhibition, Rostock 1995 (= publications of the Rostock University Library , 121), digitized .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bruno Claussen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Bruno Claussen in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corp lists 1960, no. 127 / 643rd
2. ↑ Title reference in WorldCat .
3. ^ Anne Büsing, Kirsten Büsing, Heide Haarländer: Alumni and their ex-libris. 600 years of Rostock University. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2017, ISBN 978-3-86436403-7 .