Emil Jaeschke

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Emil Paul Wilhelm Jaeschke (born October 29, 1874 in Woiske, Silesia , † July 25, 1918 on the Seine ) was a German art historian and librarian . Jaeschke was one of the leading protagonists of the book hall movement .

Life

Jaeschke attended schools in Groß-Wartenberg , Kempen and Breslau ; In 1895 he graduated from high school and began studying literary and art history at the University of Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1900. He then worked as a library assistant at the University Library in Wroclaw and the State Library in Poznan; from 1902 to 1913 he worked as a city librarian in Elberfeld . Jaeschke saw popular education as an essential task of the public libraries and expanded the Elberfeld City Library into a model institution for urban popular education efforts. In addition, he was an expert in popular education and libraries a. a. Active in an advisory capacity in Kiel and Dortmund and from 1910 headed a library advice center in Düsseldorf . In 1913 he became head of the city libraries and reading rooms in Düsseldorf. During the First World War he was an officer in Brussels in charge of organizing the front libraries and the army libraries. Jaeschke was killed on July 25, 1918 while working at the front in the Aisne offensive.

Jaeschke linked the tasks of the public libraries with practical popular education work and thus established an expanded understanding of the function of the library. He paid special attention to the popular education of young people.

Fonts

  • Antiquity in the fine arts of the Renaissance, vol. 1: Antiquity in the Florentine painting of the Quattrocento , Breslau, Univ., Phil. Diss., 1900.
  • Public libraries. Its establishment and administration , Leipzig 1907.
  • Popular reading, its significance for popular life and reading establishments in larger, medium-sized and small towns , Berlin 1903.
  • Guide for the establishment and administration of medium-sized and small public and school libraries, district libraries and reading rooms in town and country. For d. Practice , Berlin 1913.
  • From the library system of the middle and small town as well as the village . In: Library questions. Essays on the educational task and organization of the modern library, ed. by E. Ackerknecht and G. Fritz, Berlin 1914.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c M. Fröhlich: Biographical concise dictionary of adult education. Adult educator of the 19th and 20th centuries . Ed .: Günther Wolgast. Burg-Verl., Stuttgart [a. a.] 1986, ISBN 3-922801-84-6 , pp. 470 .
  2. ↑ Walther Killy (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . tape 5 , 1997.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Thauer; Peter Vodosek: History of the public library in Germany . 2nd Edition. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-447-02974-9 , pp. 58 .
personal data
SURNAME Jaeschke, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaeschke, Emil Paul Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Woiske, Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1918
Place of death on the Seine