Ferdinand Eichler

Ferdinand Eichler (born October 18, 1863 in Schallan near Teplitz-Schönau , Bohemia ; † April 14, 1945 in Knittelfeld , Styria ) was an Austrian librarian and library scholar .

Life

Eichler studied classical philology and German in Vienna , Graz , Berlin and Heidelberg . He received his doctorate from the University of Graz . From 1888 to 1889 he was a volunteer at the Styrian State Library in Graz. He then got a job at the University Library in Graz , whose director he succeeded Johannes Peisker from 1919 until his retirement in 1924. In 1921 he completed his habilitation in library science. In the same year he became a lecturer and later associate professor for this subject. He is considered to be the founder of library science in Austria.

Fonts (selection)

• Investigations into the afterlife of Hans Sachs from the 16th century to Goethe and Wieland. Dissertation, University of Graz 1888 (handwritten).
• Library technology . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 11 (1894), pp. 308-318 ( online ).
• Concept and task of library science . 1896
• Library Policy at the End of the 19th Century . 1897
• The afterlife of Hans Sachs from the 16th to the 19th century . 1904
• The German Bible by Erasmus Stratter . 1908
• From an Austrian library . Graz 1909
• Library science as value science, library politics as value politics . 1923.
• Engraver of the 17th and 18th centuries in the service of the Widmanstetter printing works in Graz. In Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 57 (1940), pp. 322-332.

literature

• Friedrich Jaksch: Lexicon of Sudeten German writers and their works . Reichenberg 1929, p.?.
• Eichler Ferdinand. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 233.
• Franz Kroller:  Eichler, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 382 f. ( Digitized version ).