Franz Weber (librarian)

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Franz Weber , complete Friedrich Franz Helmut Weber (born September 25, 1881 in Greifenhagen , † December 14, 1962 in Lübeck ) was a German librarian and medalist.

Life

Franz Weber studied German language and literature and in 1910 with a dissertation on the Bremische German society at the University of Königsberg Dr. phil. PhD. He found his first job at the Szczecin City Library , today Książnica Pomorska .

From 1911 he worked at the city ​​library (Lübeck) as a scientific librarian and later also as deputy director. After director Gustav Struck moved to Wiesbaden on August 1, 1940, Weber took over the provisional management of the city library until 1945.

In Lübeck he also designed portrait medals as an autodidact , including on Ernst Curtius , plaques and small wooden sculptures.

Fonts

  • The Bremen German Society 1748-1793. Greifenhagen: Kundler [1910], zugl. Königsberg, Univ., Diss., 1910
  • The collection of incunables. In: library and community spirit. The public library system of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Lübeck 1926, pp. 74-113

Catalogs

  • The incunabula of the Szczecin City Library. [Stettin] [1910]
  • The prints from 1500-1550 in the Szczecin City Library. A directory.
  • Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum theologicorum latinorum necnon philosophicorum. Digitized
  • Catalogus codicum manuscriptorium Philologicorum. Digitized
  • The cradle prints of the Lübeck City Library. Volume 1 digitized
  • The cradle prints of the Lübeck City Library. Volume 2 digitized

literature

  • Heinz Röhl: Lübeck: Medals, Brands, Signs. Volume 1, Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1987 ISBN 9783795032012 , p. 121

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Röhl (Lit.), p. 131