Ewald Jammers

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Ewald Jammers (born January 1, 1897 in Cologne-Lindenthal ; † June 24, 1981 in Plankstadt ) was a German musicologist and senior librarian . From 1931 to 1945 he headed the music department of the State and State Library in Dresden , after the Second World War he came to Heidelberg via Bergheim and Düsseldorf , where he headed the manuscript department of the university library from 1953 .

Life

Jammers studied musicology in Bonn and did his doctorate there with a thesis on the Jena song manuscript . Following his studies, he trained as a scientific librarian in Leipzig and Dresden. From 1927 he was employed at the Saxon State Library (that was the name at the time) in Dresden, where he was appointed head of the music department in 1931.

Jammers was drafted into military service in World War II. After the war he first worked as a substitute teacher in Bergheim. In 1951/52 he got a position at the city and university library in Düsseldorf and was appointed from there as head of the manuscript collection at the university library in Heidelberg.

His musicological focus was on medieval music and its manuscripts.

A bundle of 80 letters and postcards from his correspondence, which gives interesting insights into the Dresden period and the post-war period and the reconstruction of the Dresden library, is kept in the SLUB Dresden (Mscr. Dresd. App. 2830).

Jammers had six children with his wife. The third child, Antonius , who later became General Director of the Berlin State Library , was born in Radebeul in 1937 , when Jammers lived in the now listed Villa Zillerstraße 11 in the Niederlößnitz district.

Works (selection)

  • Investigations into the rhythm and melody of the melodies of the Jena song manuscript. (Dissertation, University of Bonn, 1924), Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1925.
  • The Charles Office 'Regali natus'. Introduction, text and translation into modern notation . Heitz, Leipzig, Strasbourg and Zurich 1934.
  • The medieval chant. Type and origin . Schott, Mainz 1954 ( full text )
  • Beginnings of occidental music . Heintz, Strasbourg and Kehl 1955.
  • Blackboards for Neumenschrift. Schneider, Tutzing 1965.
  • The royal songbook of German minstrels. An introduction to the so-called Manessian manuscript . L. Schneider, Heidelberg 1965.

literature

  • Thomas Bürger: Library letters from the post-war period from the estate of Ewald Jammers . (Appeared in three parts under the titles: Denazification with growling stomachs (Part 1), Dresden librarians - emigrated, fled, stayed (Part 2) and From rubble and soaking wet manuscripts (Part 3) in 2007 in the 21st year of the SLUB- Courier). In: SLUB-Kurier . 21, 2007 ISSN  0863-0682

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the address book for Dresden and suburbs. 1937.
personal data
SURNAME Jammers, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Lindenthal
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1981
Place of death Plankstadt