Fritz Meyen

Fritz Meyen (born May 30, 1902 in Weimar ; † July 13, 1974 in Immenstadt im Allgäu ) was a German Scandinavian scholar and librarian. From 1946 to 1967 he was director of the Braunschweig University Library .

Life

Meyen was the son of bank director Max Meyen and his wife Berta, nee. Schiefner and grew up in Weimar. Since 1920 he studied history, German, Scandinavian philology and philosophy in Jena , Berlin , Tübingen and Greifswald . He worked as an assistant at the Nordic Institute at the University of Greifswald before he began training for academic library services at the Rostock University Library in 1929 . He completed his training in 1932 at the Leipzig University Library with the state library examination. In the same year he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the language struggle in Norway. On behalf of the Emergency Association of German Science , he put together a basic stock of 25,000 volumes for the library of the Ankara Agricultural and Veterinary University in 1933 . He was a scholarship holder at the city library in Augustusburg before he was appointed head of the library at the Königsberg commercial college in 1934 . In 1941 he was appointed head of the "Library and Archives Group at the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Norwegian Territories" in Oslo. From 1943 he was a library councilor at the Prussian State Library in Berlin.

After the end of the Second World War , Meyen moved to the library of the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1946 , where he was in charge until he retired in 1967. In 1958 he was appointed library director. His successor as director of the Braunschweig University Library was Josef Daum in 1967 .

Works (selection)

The technical and scientific libraries. Their creation and development. Georg Westermann, Braunschweig 1949 ( online ).
From the history of the bibliotheca collegii Carolini (1748–1835). (= Contributions to the history of the library of the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig. Issue 1) Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 1952, OCLC 16695195 ( online ).
Wilhelm Raabe Bibliography. (= Complete Works / Wilhelm Raabe. Suppl. Vol. 1.) Hermann Klemm, Freiburg i. Br. 1955.
Johann Joachim Eschenburg : 1743-1820; Professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Vol. 20.) Orphanage printing and publishing house, Braunschweig 1957 ( online ).
Corrections and additions to the Raabe bibliography from 1955. In: Florian Krobb, Rolf Parr (Ed.): Yearbook of the Raabegesellschaft. Vol. 2. Braunschweig 1961, ISSN 0075-2371 , doi: 10.1515 / 9783110243505.53 , pp. 53-71.
Bremen contributor to the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. K. Chr. Gärtner, JA Ebert, FW Zachariä, KA Schmid. Orphanage printing and publishing house, Braunschweig 1962 ( online ).
About the beginnings of the library of the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig and its first librarian Johann Wilhelm Seidler . In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch. Vol. 54, publ. Of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein, Braunschweig 1973 ( online ).
The librarians of the Collegium Carolinum and the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig 1748-1945. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch. Vol. 55, publ. Of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein, Braunschweig 1974.

literature

Rainer Boestfleisch: Meyen, Fritz. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 412 f .
Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , pp. 215f.

Web links

Fritz Meyen at the Cooperative Library Network Berlin Brandenburg (list of publications)

Individual evidence

↑ Sören Flachowsky: " Armory for the swords of the spirit". The Deutsche Bücherei during the Nazi era . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3196-9 , p. 1006.

↑ Beate Nagel, Dietmar Brandes, University Library Braunschweig (ed.): 265 years University Library Braunschweig, 65 years Dietmar Brandes . University Library, Braunschweig 2012, ISBN 978-3-927115-72-9 , pp. 4/5 ( online ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF]).

personal data
SURNAME	Meyen, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meyen, Fritz Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Scandinavian scholar and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weimar
DATE OF DEATH	July 13, 1974
Place of death	Immenstadt in the Allgäu

[1] Sören Flachowsky: " Armory for the swords of the spirit". The Deutsche Bücherei during the Nazi era . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3196-9 , p. 1006.

[2] Beate Nagel, Dietmar Brandes, University Library Braunschweig (ed.): 265 years University Library Braunschweig, 65 years Dietmar Brandes . University Library, Braunschweig 2012, ISBN 978-3-927115-72-9 , pp. 4/5 ( online ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF]).