Ferdinand Geldner

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Ferdinand Geldner (born January 8, 1902 in Horsdorf near Staffelstein , Upper Franconia ; † August 7, 1989 ) was a German librarian , book historian and binding researcher .

Career

From 1922, Geldner studied German, history and geography in Freiburg, Leipzig and Munich and passed the second state examination for teaching in 1927. In 1928 he came to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek as a trainee lawyer , in the same year he did his doctorate under Hermann Oncken , and in 1929 he passed the specialist examination for senior library service.

From 1930 on he worked at the Palatinate State Library in Speyer , but then returned to the Bavarian State Library. During World War II he did military service and was taken prisoner. From 1946 to 1951 he worked at the Bamberg State Library . The result of his time in Bamberg are his studies of the art of printing in old Bamberg and the leather cut volumes from Bamberg and Nuremberg holdings. In 1951 he returned to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, where he was director of the manuscript and incunabula department from 1965 until his retirement in 1967 .

During his work at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek he produced an extensive collection of cover rubbings , which is systematically indexed in the cover database and made available on the Internet.

Honors

Fonts

  • An unnoticed single-sheet print of the type of the thirty-six line Bible in the Munich University Library . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 57 (1940), pp. 278–292.
  • Bamberg and Nuremberg cut leather volumes. Ceremony for Karl Schottenloher by the Bavarian State Library. With a bibliography of the publications of Karl Schottenloher by Otto Schottenloher. Zink, Munich 1953.
  • Book covers from eleven centuries. Bavarian State Library 1558–1958. Bruckmann, Munich 1958.
  • The art of printing in old Bamberg 1458/59 to 1519. Meisenbach, Bamberg 1964.
  • The account book of the Speyer printer, publisher and wholesaler Peter Drach. In: AGB. 5, 1964, col. 1-196.
  • The German incunabula printer. A manual of the German printer of the XV. Century by place of printing. 2 volumes. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1968–1970.
  • The Turkish calendar. "The manung of the Christianity aries the durks". Mainz 1454. The oldest completely preserved printed book, rare. 1 of the Bavarian State Library. In facsimile ed. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1975.
  • Incunabula. An introduction to the world of the earliest book printing. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1978 (= elements of the book and library system. Volume 5).

literature

  • List of publications by Ferdinand Geldner, 1930–1976 / 77 , compiled by Irmgard Hofmann. Bibliotheksforum Bayern 4 (1976), pp. 253-275.
  • Fridolin Dressler : Dr. Ferdinand Geldner † . In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern 17 (1989), pp. 365-367.
  • Hans-Joachim Koppitz : Obituary for Ferdinand Geldner (1902–1989) . In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 65 (1990), pp. 380-381.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Bamberg State Library names these works in its literature list on book printing around 1500 ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staatsbibliothek-bamberg.de
  2. ↑ Munich collection of binding rubbings
  3. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.
  4. ^ Page of the city to the development area Ferdinand-Geldner-Straße

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personal data
SURNAME Geldner, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Horsdorf near Staffelstein, Upper Franconia
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1989