Fritz Homeyer

Fritz Homeyer (born August 23, 1880 in Posen , † October 10, 1973 in London ) was a German specialist in German studies and antiquarian .

Life

After high school at Empress Augusta Gymnasium Berlin-Charlottenburg , he studied in Berlin , Freiburg , Leipzig and Heidelberg , graduating with the doctorate to Dr. phil. 1906 from the University of Berlin with Erich Schmidt . From 1907 to 1918 he was an assistant at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin . From 1915 to 1918 he did military service . From 1918 to 1923 he was employed by the antiquarian Martin Breslauer . From 1923 to 1938 he headed the scientific antiquarian bookshop at the Walter de Gruyter publishing house . Because of his exclusion from the Reichsschrifttumskammer in 1938, he emigrated to London with his wife Helene Homeyer ( half-Jewish ), where he ran the foreign language department at John & Edward Bumpus Ltd. from 1938 to 1951 . Booksellers headed. In 1951 he moved with his wife to Saarbrücken , where he became a librarian at the Saarland University and State Library in 1952 . In 1964 they returned to London.

Stranitzky's drama about "Saint Nepomuck" . Berlin 1907.
The tasks of the German bibliophile societies today. Lecture given in Hamburg on January 26, 1930 . Berlin-Schöneberg 1930, OCLC 72548861 .
Encounters on book routes. Speech given in Hamburg on January 27, 1955 . Hamburg 1955, OCLC 836155964 .
A life for the book. Memories . Aschaffenburg 1961, OCLC 699045981 .
German Jews as bibliophiles and antiquarians . Tuebingen 1966, OCLC 613438723 .

personal data
SURNAME	Homeyer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Germanist and antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH	23 August 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Poses
DATE OF DEATH	October 10, 1973
Place of death	London