Felix Reichmann

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Felix Reichmann (born September 14, 1899 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died July 24, 1987 in Ithaca, NY ) was an Austrian-American librarian , art historian , bookseller and museum curator .

Life

Felix Reichmann was the son of the Jewish bookseller and antiquarian Alois Reichmann (1868–1936) and his wife Emilie, b. Leo (1871-1950). He attended the K. k. Elisabeth-Gymnasium Wien Margareten , interrupted by a use in the First World War from March 1917 to December 1918. The study of art history at the University of Vienna concluded Reichmann in 1923 and was with the work The Gothic mural in Lower Austria Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a bookseller in Frankfurt, Paris, London and Florence. In 1926 he took over his father's bookstore in Vienna- Wieden . In 1933 Lilly Dörfler (1907–1997) became his wife, the couple had a daughter. After the " Anschluss of Austria " in 1938, his business was Aryanized . Reichmann himself was interned from 1938 to February 1939, first in the Dachau concentration camp and then in the Buchenwald concentration camp . Through the persistent efforts of his wife and various international colleagues, he was released in 1939. The family was then able to emigrate to the USA ; Reichmann's mother and sister managed to escape to England.

In the United States, Reichmann became curator of the Landis Valley Museum in Pennsylvania . From 1940 to 1942 he studied library science in Chicago and then became a librarian at the Carl Schurz Foundation in Philadelphia . In 1944 he became an American citizen.

From 1945 Reichmann worked in Württemberg-Baden for the military government of the United States as Chief of the Publications Control Branch in the American zone of occupation and helped rebuild the German book trade. His bookstore in Vienna was restituted, but Reichmann handed it over to his former colleague Hans Edelmann, who had also had to emigrate; it existed until 2010.

In 1947 he became a librarian at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. In this function he also taught and built up important collections in the university library. In 1965 he was appointed professor of bibliography , and in 1970 he retired.

Works

  • Gothic wall painting in Lower Austria. Amalthea Verlag, Zurich / Vienna 1925 (Viennese studies on art history; 1).
  • The Book trade at the time of the Roman Empire. In: Library Quarterly Vol. 8, 1938, Issue 1, pp. 40-76.
  • Christopher Sower sr, 1694-1758, printer in Germantown. Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Philadelphia 1943 (Bibliographies on German American History, 2).
  • The reorganization of the book trade in Germany . In: Library Quarterly Vol. 17, 1947, Issue 3, pp. 185-200.
  • Sugar, gold and coffee. Essays on the history of Brazil. The Francis Hull Library of Braziliana. Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY, 1959.
  • With Josephine Tharpe, Henriette Avram and others: Bibliographic Control of Microforms . Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1972.
  • The Sources of Western literacy. The Middle Eastern civilizations. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1980 (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, 29).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So the name at that time: see Lehmann’s General Housing Gazette together with the trade and commercial address book for the Imperial and Royal Capital and Residence City of Vienna. Born 1911, Volume 2, 5. Authorities, public and private institutes, teaching institutions, associations and newspapers p. 557
  2. ↑ Wiedner Hauptstrasse 18; Vienna address book Lehmanns Wohnungs-Anzeiger for Vienna, born in 1927, Volume 2, III. Part. Traders and businesses in Vienna ... p. 88
  3. ↑ Gerhard Zeillinger: How will the books go on? In: Der Standard online , November 12, 2011, accessed on January 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Reichmann, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American librarian, art historian, bookseller and museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1987
Place of death Ithaca , New York, United States