Carl Christoph Bernoulli

Carl Christoph Bernoulli (born February 21, 1861 in Basel ; † January 20, 1923 there ) was a Swiss librarian .

Life

Bernoulli came from the family of scholars Bernoulli . He studied classical philology and history at the University of Basel . He later switched to the University of Göttingen with the same subjects and finished his studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . At the age of 24 he got a job as a research assistant at the University Library of Basel , where he was promoted to senior librarian in 1891. In 1897 Bernoulli was entrusted with the management of the Association of Swiss Librarians . From the same year he also acted as editor of the “Annual Directory of Swiss University Theses”. He held these offices almost until the end of his life.

Carl Christoph Bernoulli died on January 20, 1923 in Basel at the age of 62.

Works

• About our old monastery libraries , in: Basler Jahrbuch 1895, pp. 79–91.
• with Paul Heitz: Basel book brands up to the beginning of the 17th century, Strasbourg 1895
• Spiritual life and printing in Basel at the end of the XV. Century (1901)
• The Battle of Friedlingen on October 14, 1702 . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 2, 1903, pp. 1–33. ( Digitized version )
• The incunabula of the Basel State Archives . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 9, 1910, pp. 77–94. ( Digitized version )