Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen

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Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen (born August 23, 1838 in Goldap , † September 20, 1919 in Coburg ) was a German legal historian, councilor and librarian.

Life

Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen was born in 1838 as the son of the judiciary and lawyer Julius Fernando Steffenhagen (1807–1872) and his wife Isabella Euphrosyne Valeria, nee. Hassenstein (* 1815 in Insterburg), he grew up with seven siblings. Steffenhagen studied law at the University of Königsberg and later switched to literary studies. In 1865 he received his habilitation as a private lecturer at the law faculty. In 1867 he was commissioned by the University of Athens to reorganize the national library there. In 1870 he was appointed city librarian to Gdansk, and in 1871 he was appointed curator of the Königsberg library. In 1872 he was transferred to Göttingen as library secretary.

In 1875 he took over the full-time management of the Kiel University Library as the successor to Henning Ratjen , who had held this position alongside his professorship at the philosophical faculty since 1833. The inadequate space in the library had already prompted Ratjen to plan new buildings. Steffenhagen carried out the construction and in the spring of 1884 was able to move into the first building intended solely for the library. In 1884 Steffenhagen was appointed senior librarian. In 1903 he retired and has lived in Coburg ever since.

Already as a student, Steffenhagen published from Königsberg manuscripts the contributions to Friedrich Carl von Savigny's “History of Roman Law in the Middle Ages” and the original text by Johannes Faxiolus “De summaria cognitione” discovered by him in Theodor Nut's yearbook of common German law (vol. 3, 1859). Steffenhagen published extensive catalogs of the legal (1861) and historical manuscripts (1867/1872) of the libraries, which to this day form a reliable basis for the important Königsberg manuscript collections. The description of the old German manuscripts of the Königsberg libraries appeared in Moriz Haupt's Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum (Vol. 13, 1867). In addition to articles in various magazines, he also wrote other books on legal topics and published numerous publications on library studies.

In 1877 the Austrian Academy of Sciences entrusted him with the critical processing of the Saxon mirror glosses . As a preparatory work for this, he appeared in the meeting reports of the academy “The development of the land law glossary of the Saxon mirror” (Vienna 1881–1887, 9 issues).

Steffenhagen wrote around 150 articles as a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , mainly on people in law.

Works (selection)

  • Contributions to von Savigny's History of Roman Law in MA , Königsberg 1859, 2nd edition 1861. 
  • Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae regiae et Universitatis Regimontanae , Königsberg 1861.
  • De inedito juris germanici monumento , Königsberg 1863.
  • The nine books of Magdeburg Law , Königsberg 1865.
  • The old German manuscripts of Königsberg , 1867.
  • The handwritten Prussica historical content of the Königl. and University Library in Königsberg . In: Neue Prussische Provinzial-Blätter , fourth episode. Volume 4. Koenigsberg 1867, pp. 359-367.
  • German legal sources in Prussia from XIII. until the XVI. Century . Duncker and Humblot, Leipzig 1875 ( online ).
  • The development of the state law glossary of the Sachsenspiegel , In: Session reports of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1881–1887.
Library science
  • The new list of the University Library in Kiel , 1883. ( online )
  • The monastery library to Bordesholm and Gottorfer Library , 1884. with August Wetzel (1850-1907) ( online )
  • Above standard heights for book floors , 1885.
  • List of current periodicals of the Kiel University Library , 1887.
  • The principles of order of the Kiel University Library , 1888. ( online )
  • The compulsory deposit in the Prov. Schleswig-Holstein , 1890.
  • The deposit copies in Schleswig-Holstein . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 7 (1890), pp. 429–431 ( online ).
  • On the Göttingen legal manuscripts , 1895.  
  • The library building of the University of Kiel and its extension , 1900.  
  • In memory of the Gutenberg exhibition in Kiel , 1900.
Article in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Hugo Julius Steffenhagen, 1838-1919 at the MyHeritage.de portal
  2. ↑ Fabian-Handbuch: Handbook of the historical book collections in Germany, Austria and Europe - University Library Kiel, chap. 1.12
  3. ^ Axel E. Walter: Königsberg book and library history. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne u. Weimar 2004, ISBN 978-3-412-08502-5 , p. 736 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Steffenhagen, Emil Julius Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steffenhagen, Emil; Steffenhagen, Aemilius Iulius Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian, government councilor and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldap
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1919
Place of death Coburg