Carl Diesch

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Carl Diesch (born November 18, 1880 in Altenburg , Thuringia ; † June 3, 1957 in Leipzig ) was a German specialist in German studies and librarian in Berlin, Königsberg i. Pr. And Leipzig.

Life

Karl Hermann Kaulfuss was adopted by Hermann Diesch. Carl Diesch attended the Friedrichgymnasium (Altenburg) . With an aesthetic disposition, he belonged to a reading group recognized by the school management that dealt with literature beyond the curriculum. Its members called themselves "Ritter vom Geist" and chose Diesch as their grandmaster.

At Easter 1900 Diesch moved into the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and in 1901 became a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen . He studied philology with a focus on German . He completed his studies at the University of Leipzig with the promotion of Dr. phil. from. After completing his training in Paris , he became a research assistant at the Göttingen State and University Library . In 1909 he married Clare Hammer , the daughter of a Geh. Justice council in Altenburg.

Diesch was small and unsportsmanlike, but took part in the First World War as a reserve officer in the Magdeburg Field Artillery Regiment , was wounded several times and buried once. Dismissed with awards, he went to the Prussian State Library in Berlin as a librarian . In 1927 he was appointed director of the state and university library in Königsberg . The Albertus University of Königsberg awarded him an honorary professorship . Diesch was active in plundering Polish libraries after the German conquest of the country.

When the Red Army stood in front of the city, he was expelled and put on a transport ship to Schleswig-Holstein with his wife . When Diesch's wife died in Kellinghusen of an infection that she contracted on the overcrowded refugee steamer , Diesch returned to her native Saxony . He became second director of the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig for a short time , but was dismissed there in 1947 because of anti-Semitic statements made in 1940. Deprived of his livelihood, he lived on private studies. In 1948 he completed the manuscript Welt und Geist im Goethewort by Goethe researcher Theodor Friedrich , which appeared in print in 1949. He was also supposed to complete Karl Goedekes Goethe Encyclopedia (1866), but as a sick man after a stroke in 1956 he could no longer look through the print sheets.

Diesch had a phenomenal memory and could recite entire chants from the Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand) by heart.

He was the last president of the Royal German Society (Königsberg) founded in 1741 .

Works

  • German Poetry in the Stream of German Life: A History of Literature . Voigtländer, Leipzig 1921.
  • Bibliography of Germanistic Journals . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1927
  • Crotus Rubeanus in the service of Duke Albrecht , 1929.
  • The Königsberg City Library , 1930.
  • Friedrich Schinkel and the building of the Königsberg University , 1933.
  • Prince Boguslaw Radziwill and his donation of books to the Königsberg Castle Library , 1937.
  • The Goedeke. History of a scientific company . Ehlermann, Dresden 1941.
  • Johann Georg Scheffner , in: Kurt Forstreuter , Fritz Gause (ed.) Old Prussian Biography , Vol. 2, p. 600 f.

literature

  • Walter Pause: Obituary for Carl Diesch . Tübinger Frankenzeitung, No. 95, July 1957, p. 16 f.
  • Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 . Klostermann, Frankfurt 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 58f

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , he was born on November 13, 1880 in Sorau , West Prussia. There you will also find information on the birth parents
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 27/616
  3. Dissertation: The production of the German drama at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries .
  4. ^ Marion Morgner: Lost wonder of the world. The Amber Room : The Search for a Myth in Central Germany. Book-on-Demand 2011, ISBN 3842364091 , p. 152
  5. Manfred Komorowski : Dealing with the National Socialist Legacy in Academic Libraries after 1945 , in: Peter Vodosek , Manfred Komorowski (Eds.), Libraries during National Socialism , Part 2, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-03308-8 , Pp. 173-295, especially p. 285