Bruno Faass
Bruno Faass (born November 2, 1882 in Derenburg , † December 29, 1951 in Göttingen ) was a German librarian .
Life
Faass was the son of a pharmacist. He studied history, philosophy and classical philology. During his studies in 1901 Faass became a member of the Salia Halle and Gotia Göttingen singers . He received his doctorate in 1907 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen . In 1908 he started working as a laborer at the Saxon State Library in Dresden , and in 1914 he became a library assistant. From 1915 to 1918 he was in military service, in 1919 he was appointed library councilor. Faass stayed at the library in Dresden until his retirement in 1945. There he developed a new specialist catalog with 19 largely independent specialist groups between 1917 and 1927 after the library was converted to numerus currens.
Works
- Studies on the transmission history of the Roman imperial charter (from the time of Augustus to Justinian) . In: Archiv für Urkundenforschung, Vol. 1 (1908), 2, pp. 185–272.
- Dresden Library Guide , Dresden: Heinrich 1915 ( digitized version ).
- The new subject catalogs of the Saxon State Library . In: Contributions to subject cataloging, Leipzig: Harrassowitz 1937 (collection of library studies), pp. 63–86.
literature
- Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 74.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 110.
Web links
- Literature by and about Bruno Faass in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Bruno Faass in the Saxon Bibliography
- Katrin Nitzschke: Faass, Bruno . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faass, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Derenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1951 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |