Friedrich Adolf Ebert

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Friedrich Adolf Ebert, 1827

Friedrich Adolf Ebert , also Friedrich Adolph Ebert (born July 9, 1791 in Taucha , † November 13, 1834 in Dresden ) was a German librarian and bibliographer .

Life

He graduated in 1808 at the University of Leipzig first theology and later Philology , and his PhD in 1812 in Wittenberg . From 1814 he worked in the library system . From 1823 he headed the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel , from 1825 until his death (he died as a result of a fall from a book ladder) he was director of the Royal Public Library in Dresden .

Ebert campaigned for the recognition of an independent library profession and developed requirements for training ( The Education of the Librarian , Leipzig 1820). He was also scientifically active, so from 1819 he worked on the Monumenta Germaniae Historica .

His most extensive work is the bibliography General Bibliographical Lexicon (2 volumes, 1821–1830), in which he attempted to include all works that are important for scientific work. He saw it as the task of a librarian who was trained as comprehensively as possible to distinguish between the important and the unimportant. In his preface he writes:

“The bibliography is, in its broader scope, the Codex diplomaticus of literary history, the surest gauge and height meter of literary culture and activity (...) In the above extension it recognizes no other limit than that which is either pure scientific value or the historical interest of literary productions of all ages and nations. What is lacking in both may perhaps still have a local or even more special interest; but it no longer belongs to the bibliography as a science, and it was, even apart from the insurmountable external obstacles, unmistakable nonsense when some scholars dreamed of a general bibliography in which no compendium, no pamphlet and no meeting should be ignored. "

Even if later bibliographers did not share this approach, its bibliography is considered a milestone because of its thorough and careful elaboration.

His son Adolf Ebert was a literary historian and Romanist.

Together with Martin Schrettinger , Ebert is considered to be the founder of library science .

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SURNAME Ebert, Friedrich Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and bibliographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Taucha
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1834
Place of death Dresden