Ernst Kyriss
Ernst Kyriss (born June 2, 1881 in Brackenheim / Württemberg; † August 3, 1974 in Stuttgart ) was a German civil engineer and binding researcher .
Life
From 1899 to 1904 he studied civil engineering in Stuttgart and Berlin. From 1905 to 1908 he worked at the civil engineering department of the city of Ulm . From 1908 to 1924 he was a government master builder in the service of the state waterway administration in Stuttgart. On May 1, 1924, he was retired for health reasons.
From 1924 to 1928 Kyriss studied art history in Munich. Here he first came into contact with incunabula in contemporary bindings. He then began to deal more intensively with the scientific literature on binding science. As a private scholar he came to the realization that the late Gothic book cover was largely unexplored in the German-speaking world. He made his first purchases as the basis of his later collection of late Gothic and Renaissance volumes.
In 1929 Kyriss began his systematic collection of material from the binding rubbings of the binding stamps in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart , Cologne , Nördlingen and Nuremberg . His first publications on binding customers appeared from 1929, which were to be followed by more than 180 by 1971. From 1930 to 1943 he continued his binding research in Stuttgart, Ulm, Tübingen , Cologne, Nuremberg, Augsburg , Lucerne , Erlangen , Heilbronn , Bamberg , Munich , Rostock , Hamburg , Bremen , Halle , Leipzig , Merseburg , Wolfenbüttel , Regensburg , Neustadt / Aisch , Dillingen , Windsheim , Donaueschingen , Sigmaringen , Beuron , Eichstätt , Prague and Olomouc . In 1940 he received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen with a dissertation on Nuremberg monastery bindings from 1433–1525 . 1945 to 1972 he opened and researched book covers in Esslingen am Neckar , Nuremberg, Lindau , Überlingen , Hanover , Heidelberg , Karlsruhe , Freiburg im Breisgau and other German cities as well as in Zurich , St. Gallen , Krakow and Graz.
From 1951 to 1958 Kyriss published his magnum opus Ornamented Gothic Bindings in the old German-speaking area in four volumes, which soon became the standard work of binding research in Germany.
In 1960/1961 he sold his extensive collection of materials with more than 50,000 rub-throughs and his scientific reference library to the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart with the guarantee that he would continue to have access to all documents and be able to work with them.
In 1962 he sold 131 volumes of his collection of incunables and manuscripts - all in representative bindings - to the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart.
Ernst Kyriss was one of the most important binding researchers in Germany. His collection of cover rubs is systematically indexed in the cover database and made available on the Internet.
Fonts (selection)
- Covers with the emblem of Duke Carl Eugen . In: Ewald Lissberger (ed.): In libro humanitas. Festschrift for Wilhelm Hoffmann on his 60th birthday, April 21, 1961 , Stuttgart: Klett 1962, pp. 232–243.
Individual evidence
literature
- Hermann Knaus: Kyriss, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 357 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Kyriss in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vita on the pages of the binding database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kyriss, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German binding researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brackenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 1974 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |