David Schellhammer

David Schellhammer , also David Schelhammer , (* 1629 or on May 15, 1627 in Hamburg ; † September 23, 1693 there ) was a German librarian .

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David Schellhammer was a son of Philo Schellhammer and his wife Magdalena. The father had a pastor's position at the main church of St. Peter . His mother was a daughter of Diederich von Göhren. David Schellhammer initially worked as a canon in Hameln . In 1679 he started working as a librarian in the community library in his hometown . He brought an important collection of natural objects with him, which he left to the institution. According to the lexicon for Hamburg writers , he wrote a “description of strange, particularly exotic natural objects”. The two-volume work was probably a manuscript that no longer exists today.

Schellhammer continued to work on the library catalogs created by his predecessors. Particularly noteworthy is the inventory of Joachim Jungius' estate . During his time as head of the library, Johann Moller wrote a manuscript catalog in 1682, which can now be found in the Danish Royal Library . Schellhammer created a two-volume copy of this, of which only the first volume, Catalogus, remains today . Hamburgensium bibliothecae publicae is available.

One of his successors, the librarian Christian Petersen , wrote in 1838 that Schellhammer made a note in the second volume, which has not survived. Schellhammer wrote that he had made a handwritten copy of L'École des filles . Since the work had been repeatedly banned by the courts because of its content, the proto-scholar supervising the library instructed that this copy be destroyed.

On April 25, 1683 David Schellhammer married Margarethe Voss, with whom he had a son named David.

literature

• Horst Gronemeyer: Schelhammer, David . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 286-287 .