Emil Jacobs (librarian)

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Emil Friedrich Rudolph Jacobs (born April 25, 1868 in Gotha ; † March 18, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German librarian and classical philologist .

Life

Emil Jacobs was the son of a judiciary and grandson of the painter Paul Emil Jacobs (1802-1866) and a great-grandson of the classical philologist and writer Friedrich Jacobs (1764-1847).

After studying Classical Philology and Classical Archeology in Greifswald and Göttingen , where he received his doctorate under Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , from 1892 he worked as an assistant librarian in Gotha . In 1894 he moved to the Royal Library in Berlin , where he worked as a close associate of General Director August Wilmanns, in particular with acquisition matters. In 1905 he joined the manuscript department, where he successfully continued the acquisition policy of the 19th century. In 1912 he was appointed head of the Freiburg University Library , which he designed into a user-friendly library. There he was appointed honorary professor for library sciences in 1914 and full professor in 1920. In 1929 he returned to the now Prussian State Library in Berlin, where he worked as first director under the general director Hugo Andres Krüß until his retirement in 1935 . From 1929 he was also an honorary professor for library studies at Berlin University. Since 1919 he was an associate member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, and since 1929 an external member .

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Fonts (selection)

  • Thasiaca [inscriptions of Thasos]. Berlin 1893 (= dissertation).
  • (Ed.) The songs of poor Kurti [= Curt Kamla ], Berlin 1896.
  • with Karl Zangemeister : Theodor Mommsen as a writer. A list of his writings , by Karl Zangemeister. Edited and continued on behalf of the Royal Library. by Emil Jacobs. Weidmann, Berlin 1905 (revised by Stefan Rebenich , Olms, Hildesheim 2000).
  • The Joseph Goerres manuscript collection . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 23, 1906, pp. 189–204.
  • The scientific estate of Oskar von Gebhardt . In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen 24, 1907, pp. 15-25.
  • Francesco Patricio and his collection of Greek manuscripts in the Escorial library . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 25, 1908, pp. 19–47.
  • Letters from Frederick the Great to Thierot . Weidmann, Berlin 1912.
  • Ludwig Stern †. In: Central Journal for Libraries. 29, 1912, pp. 26-31 ( digitized version).
  • with Hermann Degering : New acquisitions of the manuscript department, I. Latin and German manuscripts acquired in 1911 (= communications from the Royal Library, vol. 2). Weidmann, Berlin 1914 ( digitized version ).
  • Valentin Rose . An obituary. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 34, 1917, pp. 168–182, digitized .
  • Studies on the history of the libraries in the Serai in Constantinople , Part I, Winter, Heidelberg 1919.
  • Ars scripturarum . In: Georg Leyh (Ed.): Essays dedicated to Fritz Milkau . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1921, pp. 177-186.
  • Bertoldo's Mehemmed Medal . In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections 42, 1927, pp. 1–17.
  • Adolf von Harnack † . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 47, 1930.
  • Winckelmann and Bianconi . In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1932, Sp. 564-579.
  • Mehemmed II, the Conqueror, His Relationship with the Renaissance and His Book Collection . In: Oriens 2, 1949, pp. 6-30.

literature

  • Catalogus librorum consilio atque auspiciis Aemilii Jacobs, Bibliothecae nationalis olim directoris principis inclyssimi, e Bibliotheca Wernigerodensi e Bibliotheca nationali Berolinensi acquisitorum . Berlin 1938. (Berlin title prints as a celebratory offer for Emil Jacobs' 70th birthday).
  • Josef Becker: Emil Jacobs † . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 57, 1940, pp. 502-510.
  • Hans Lülfing :  Jacobs, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 242 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 . Klostermann, Frankfurt 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , pp. 141-142.
  • Helga Döhn: The Emil Jacobs Estate. Descriptive Directory . German State Library, Berlin 1990.
  • Werner Schochow : Emil Jacobs. Librarian and scholar - also a look at the history of the Berlin State Library . In: Bibliothek und Wissenschaft 27, 1994, pp. 168-188.
  • German Gender Book Vol. 214, Limburg 2002, pp. 507–508 (with portrait p. 481).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Emil Jacobs. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 30, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Jacobs, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobs, Emil Friedrich Rudolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1940
Place of death Berlin