Edward Lohmeyer

Edward Lohmeyer (born April 2, 1847 in Rinteln , † September 23, 1927 in Kassel ) was a German specialist in German and librarianship.

Life

Lohmeyer studied law and philology and graduated in 1871 with the state examination. He was then a test candidate at the Luisenstädtisches Gymnasium in Berlin and from 1872 to 1874 a teacher at the high school in Uelzen . Lohmeyer lived in Switzerland from 1874 to 1876. In 1876 he became an intern at the State Library in Kassel , where he was promoted to chief librarian until 1895 and became director in 1900. In 1882 he received his doctorate in Halle . Lohmeyer campaigned for a spelling reform based on the phonetic principle, published numerous papers on German spelling and published the magazine "Reform", which dealt with questions of the spelling reform. Lohmeyer retired in 1912.

Fonts

• The manuscripts of Willehalm Ulrich von Türheim , Halle; Kassel: Döll [Dr.] 1882 (Zugl .: Halle-Wittenberg, Univ., Diss., 1882).
• Johann Georg Albert Duncker: Obituary . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 3 (1886), pp. 524-534.
• Our colloquial language. Germanization of the most important foreign words used in daily life and traffic , Berlin: Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein 1915 ( online ).

literature

• Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 202.