Christoph Wilhelm Siemsen

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Christoph Wilhelm Siemsen (born September 19, 1793 , † January 27, 1859 ) was a German councilor , librarian and library secretary.

Life

Christoph Wilhelm Siemsen was born on September 19, 1793 at the time of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover . In the first year of the Kingdom of Hanover , he was on November 3, 1814 as a lodge brother in the Johannis - Masonic Lodge to black bear in the East of Hannover added. He worked temporarily as a music teacher .

From 1830 to 1859 Siemsen worked at the Royal Public Library in Hanover . During this period he headed the library of the royal seat on an interim basis from 1842 to 1851.

According to the memories of August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben , the extremely short-sighted Siemsen was very knowledgeable, especially in the bibliography, and regularly expanded his important library with inexpensive books from the subject of scholarly and book history.

In 1856 the entire library or parts of it was handed over to the predecessor institution of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library .

From 1855 to 1859 Siemsen was a deputy master from the chair of his box.

literature

  • Karl Bader : Lexicon of German librarians. In the main and secondary office for princes, states and cities (= Central Journal for Libraries. Supplement. Volume 55 ), Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1925, p. 248
  • Werner Ohnsorge : Two hundred years of history of the Royal Library of Hanover (1665–1866) (= publications of the Lower Saxony archive administration , issue 14), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1962, p. 69f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Wilhelm Nöldeke : The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the Black Bear in the Orient from Hanover 1774 to 1874 , Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei Gebrüder Jänecke, 1875, p. 26; Digitized via Google books
  2. ↑ a b c d e f o. V .: Siemsen, Christoph Wilhelm in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of September 19, 2005, last accessed on March 22, 2020
  3. ↑ August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben: My life. Records and memories , Volume 1, Hanover: Carl Rümpler, 1868, p. 349; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Siemsen, Christoph Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian court advisor, librarian and library secretary
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1793
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1859