Friedrich Klemm

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Friedrich Klemm (born January 22, 1904 in Mulda , Saxony , † March 16, 1983 in Munich ) was a leading German historian of technology and for a long time held this position at a central position in Germany as library director of the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

Life

Klemm received his doctorate in 1929 from the University of Marburg .

He had been in the library of the Deutsches Museum in Munich since 1932 (which at that time already had over 100,000 volumes), of which he became director in 1950 after his return from captivity and of which he was director from 1956 to 1969. He was also a professor at the University of Munich .

In the library of the Deutsches Museum he built up the collection of rare source works on natural science and the history of technology from the period before 1750 (Libri Rari).

In 1964, Klemm was elected a member of the Leopoldina , and in 1975 he was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal .

Fonts

  • Technology. A history of their problems , Orbis academicus Volume II / 5. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1954
  • History of technology - man and his inventions in the western world . 3. Edition. Teubner, 1998; Rowohlt 1983, 1989
  • On the cultural history of technology - essays and lectures 1954–1978 . Deutsches Museum 1979, 1982
  • Editor: The Technology of Modern Times . 3 volumes. Athenaion, Potsdam 1941
  • numerous other publications in the series of the Deutsches Museum

literature

  • Lutz Engelskirchen: Friedrich Klemm (1904–1983) . In: History of Technology . Volume 76, 2009, H. 4, pp. 369-376.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The main problems of the development of the German automotive industry in the post-war period and the competition of this industry with other countries, especially with the United States of North America
personal data
SURNAME Klemm, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German technical historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulda , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1983
Place of death Munich