Carl Walther (librarian)

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Carl Walther (born January 11, 1877 in Wiesbaden ; † November 17, 1960 there ) was a German librarian .

Life

Carl Walther, son of a post secretary, studied by put- graduate engineering, law and political science in Hanover and Berlin before 1901 he the state exam took off. Walther then held an assistant position at the TH Berlin, and in 1912 he joined the library service. After his participation in the First World War , he was the librarian of the library of the Association of German Engineers in 1919 and 1920 , which he reorganized.

In 1921 Carl Walther was entrusted with the provisional management of the library of the RWTH Aachen , in 1927 he moved to the TH Berlin as director, returned to Aachen a year later, took over the management of the library of the TH until he was on leave from work because of his Belonging to the Christian community . Walther - he completely reorganized the library - was retired in 1942.

Carl Walther's commitment was to a German complete edition of the decimal classification , which he was instrumental in developing. In 1960 he was awarded honorary membership by the Association of German Engineers. In 1962 the German Standards Committee founded the Carl Walther Prize in memory of Walther, who died in 1960, for outstanding work in the field of decimal classification.

Publications

  • Decimal Classification Problems . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , vol. 48, 1931, pp. 289–299.

literature

  • Gerhart Lohse: Carl Walther †. In: VDI magazine. Volume 102, 1960, p. 1790.
  • German Society for Documentation: News for Documentation, Volumes 11-13, 1960. P. 173.
  • Gerhart Lohse: From the history of the technical library system in Germany. A tribute to Carl Walther. In: 125 years of VDI. Aachen, 1981, pp. 323-331.
  • Technical University Berlin. University library , Helmut Sontag (ed.): From the chronicle of the university library, 1884–1984. University Library, 1985, ISBN 3798310688 , p. 42.
  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag, Munich, 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 324.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary Membership . In: VDI-Z. tape 102 , no. 27 , September 21, 1960, pp. 1265 .
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1960
Place of death Wiesbaden