Emile Joseph Labarre

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Emile Joseph Labarre (born December 8, 1883 in Huy (Belgium) , † June 10, 1965 ) was a European linguist, paper historian and watermark researcher.

Life

Emile Labarre was born in the Walloon part of Belgium as the son of a stove enameller and when he was seven he moved to Wolverhampton in England with his parents and three siblings . He obtained British citizenship, but French was still spoken at home. He developed osteomyelitis when he was about ten years old and spent many years in the hospital. He completed his apprenticeship at a German company in Birmingham , attended language courses in the evenings and learned German, Spanish and Russian. He later worked as a language teacher at the Berlitz language schools in Dortmund and from October 1902 in Amsterdam . He learned Dutch and gave English lessons at a girls' school in Hilversum . The school's founder, Baroness Nicoline Mulert tot de Leemcule, he later married. He became a sworn translator and drew his main income from his work for large Amsterdam shipping companies and banks. Since he had retained his British citizenship, he was appointed Vice Consul from 1906 to 1918. The consul was William Algernon Churchill, a distant cousin of Winston Churchill , who collected watermarks and introduced him to the area.

After the First World War he became a sales representative for the British stationery factory Kenrich and Jefferson and undertook business trips for this company throughout Europe, but also to China, Japan and America. This professional activity inspired him to start a multilingual book project. With his systematic way of working, he made a significant contribution to an internationally organized foundation of paper technology, paper history and watermarking issues. His work on paper and its manufacture, first published in 1937 as a dictionary and lexicon, established the connection between names in seven languages. English as the basic language ensured widespread international dissemination, the linguistic equivalents in French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Swedish ensured access to the specialist knowledge of the leading national papermaking cultures in Europe and large parts of America.

After the National Socialists occupied the Netherlands in 1940, he was held as a British citizen in an internment camp in Silesia. With the help of the Red Cross, his wife was able to provide him with books and writing materials. There the plan matured for a series of watermarking publications to be published after the war. Because of his leg troubles, after four years of internment, he was released with the help of the Red Cross via Spain and Portugal to England, where he met Edward Heawood , the retired librarian of the Royal Geographical Society and enthusiastic watermark collector. In 1945, after the end of the war, he was finally able to return to his wife, who was now seriously ill, in Holland.

In 1950 he founded the Paper Publications Society. Their series Monumenta chartae papyraceae historiam illustrantia published important works by important European paper historians and watermark researchers since 1950. The series started with a work by Edward Heawood, followed by publications by Aurelio and Augusto Zonghi , Alfred Henry Shorter , Walter F. Tschudin , Georg Eineder , Zoja Vasil'evna Učastkina and Johann Lindt , among others . The series was continued after his death, the sponsorship itself passed to the Labarre Foundation.

Awards

On December 8, 1953, he was awarded the first ring of honor by the Research Center for Paper History .

Fonts

  • A dictionary of paper and papermaking terms with equivalents in French, German, Dutch and Italian. Swets & Zeitlinger, Amsterdam 1937.
  • Dictionary and encyclopædia of paper and paper-making. With equivalents of the technical terms in French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish & Swedish. 2nd ed., Rev. and enlarged, Swets & Zeitlinger, Amsterdam, p. a. [1952]
  • The sizes of paper, their names, origin and history. In: book and paper. Book studies and paper history works; Hans H. Bockwitz for his 65th birthday. Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1949, pp. 35-54.
  • Books on watermarks. A bibliography. In: Imprimatur , Vol. 1, 1957, Issue 3, pp. 233-251.

literature

  • Richard Leslie Hills: É. J. Labarre, 8 December 1883-10 June 1965. In: IPH-Information , NF 17, 1983, no. 3, pp. 134-135.
  • Bé J. van Ginneken van de Kasteele: A history of the Paper Publications Society (Labarre Foundation) In: IPH-Yearbook , Vol. 4, 1983/84, pp. 207-228.
  • John Simon Gabriel Simmons: Emile Joseph Labarre, 1883–1965. The Paper Publications Society, Hilversum, 1965.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cf. William Algernon Churchill: Watermarks in paper in Holland, England, France etc. in the XVII and XVIII centuries and their interconnection. Hertzberger, Amsterdam 1935.
  2. ↑ See [1]
  3. ↑ See Edward Heawood: Watermarks. Mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries. Hilversum, Holland 1950.
  4. ↑ Cf. Bé van Ginneken-van de Kasteele: The Paper Publications Society (Labarre Foundation). A brief historical account. In: Likhachev's watermarks / Nikolaj Petrovič Lichačev. Amsterdam. (Monumenta chartae papyraceae historiam ilustrantia; 15). Vol. 1 (1994), Appendix BS 383-396.
  5. ↑ See Fifty Years of the Association of Pulp and Paper Chemists and Engineers, Darmstadt 1955, p. 154
personal data
SURNAME Labarre, Emile Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION European linguist, paper historian and watermark researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Huy (Belgium)
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1965