Ernst Marx (historian)

Ernst Marx (born May 16, 1865 in Mannheim , † March 14, 1949 in New York ) was a German historian and librarian.

Life

Marx came from a family of Jewish faith. His father, Wilhelm Marx, was a businessman, he was married to Henriette, nee. Umstadtter. Ernst Marx attended grammar school in Mannheim and then studied history, economics, philosophy, art history and education in Leipzig . In 1894 he received his doctorate there. In 1900 he was at the Technical University of Stuttgart habilitation and was there as a lecturer working for history. In 1919 he became provisional director of the library of the TH Stuttgart , in 1920 he took over the newly created full-time librarian position at the TH library and was appointed librarian and director. He saw the library as a “general scientific library, especially for technology”. In 1920 he set up a textbook library that was intended to provide literature to particularly needy students. In addition, the library was now also accessible to people outside the university, which was particularly useful for exchanges with industry. The establishment of our own photocopying facility was also important. In 1925 Marx was promoted to senior librarian and in 1930 to director. On his initiative, the George Washington Memorial Library was founded from German and American donations and handed over to the TH Stuttgart in 1932.

In 1933 Marx was forced to retire; he worked at the George Washington Memorial Library until 1937. In 1941 he had to emigrate to the USA, where he died in 1949.

Marx was married to Hedwig, b. Meyer. The couple had two children.

Fonts (selection)

• The beginnings of the Dutch uprising (1554–1564) , Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1896 (Zugl.:Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 1896).
• Studies on the history of the Dutch uprising , Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1902 (Leipzig studies from the field of history; 3.2).
• Bismarck and the Hohenzollern candidacy in Spain, Stuttgart: Metzler 1911.
• On the fight against the plight of German science, Stuttgart [1921].

literature

• Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , pp. 209f.