Fritz Milkau

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Fritz Milkau (1881)

Fritz Milkau (actually: Karl Friedrich Milkau, born September 28, 1859 in Lötzen , East Prussia , † January 23, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German librarian.

Life

Milkau was the son of the master shoemaker Friedrich Milkau and his wife Henriette Marianne, nee. Bleyer. He attended the Herzog-Albrechts-Schule in Rastenburg . After graduating from high school, he studied classical philology and German at the Albertus University in Königsberg from 1878 . In the summer semester of 1881 he became active with Carl Contag and Paul Thomaschki in the Corps Masovia . In the same year, at the age of 21, he complained in the Hartungsche Zeitung about the distorted image of East Prussia in large parts of public opinion in Germany. He primarily blamed Wilhelmine von Hillern for this. In 1890 he published the first full list of members of the corps. The facility has remained unchanged to this day.

Milkau was initially a high school teacher . With a doctoral thesis on the Roman historian Velleius Paterculus , he received his doctorate in the three emperor's year . He switched from school to library service. First he was at the State and University Library in Königsberg , then at the University Library in Bonn and the Royal Library in Berlin . During his time in Bonn he published a directory of Bonn university publications. From 1897 he was responsible for the Prussian general catalog . He participated in the drafting of the Prussian instructions on which it was based . In 1899 he became an employee of Friedrich Althoff in the Prussian Ministry of Culture .

Since 1902 director of the University Library Greifswald , Milkau went as successor to Wilhelm Ermans in 1907 in the same position at the University Library Breslau , where he spent fourteen happy and decisive years. In 1921 he followed Adolf von Harnack as General Director of the Prussian State Library in Berlin, which he headed until 1925. He tried to maintain the leading role of this library and a functioning library system as a whole in the difficult post-war years. During his tenure he was chairman of the Prussian advisory board for library matters. In 1924, at his instigation, interlibrary loan was regulated for the first time throughout Germany. After retiring as general director, Milkau became honorary professor for library science at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , where he headed the library science institute he founded from 1928 until his death. To support his teaching activities, he set up an extensive collection of slides, which was created in the Photography Workshop of the Prussian State Library from 1926 to 1933 and which mostly consists of reproductions of book excerpts and graphics. From 1931 to 1933 Milkau published the first three-volume edition of the Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft . He fell ill in 1933 and died at the beginning of the following year at the age of 74. The library science institute ceased to exist with his death, but was continued in the 1950s. Milkau's grave is located in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

See also

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • De Vellei Paterculi genere dicendi quaestiones selectae , Königsberg: Hartung 1888 (Königsberg, Univ., Phil. Diss., 1888).
  • Central catalogs and title prints: historical discussions and practical suggestions with regard to the production of a general catalog of the Prussian academic libraries , Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1898 (Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen. Supplement; 20).
  • The international bibliography of the natural sciences according to the plan of the Royal Society: An orienting overview , Berlin: Asher, 1899.
  • The Royal and University Library of Wroclaw: A sketch , Breslau: Hirt 1911.
  • Ed. Together with Georg Leyh: Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft , 7 vols. 1931ff.

literature

  • Gustav Abb (Ed.): Fritz Milkau to the memory. Speeches, lectures and a list of his writings . Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1934.
  • Otto Schellong : Privy Councilor Professor Dr. Dr. hc Fritz Milkau † formerly general director of prussia. Libraries, Director of the University Institute for Library Science in Berlin. In: Deutsche Corps-Zeitung 51 (1934), pp. 23-25 archive.org .
  • Johannes Buder:  Milkau, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 511 ( digitized version ).
  • Friedhilde Krause (arr.): "A miracle that these years have been survived". Service minutes from Fritz Milkau's tenure at the Prussian State Library, June 9, 1921 to December 13, 1923 . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-88053-090-4 (contributions from the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, 15)
  • Friedhilde Krause, Antonius Jammers: General director Fritz Milkau changed the association in 1921. In: »Here private circles have to help ...« The commitment of the Association of Friends to its Royal and Prussian State Library from 1914 to 1944. Stapp Verlag Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-87776-121-2 , pp. 35–51 .
  • Engelbert Plassmann : Fritz Milkau in memory . Journal for Libraries and Bibliography 56 (2009), pp. 251–261.
  • Werner Schochow : What does Fritz Milkau mean to us today? Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 31 (1984), pp. 397-413. Also under the title Fritz Milkau - General Director from 1921 to 1925. A study of leadership style and personality. In: ders .: The Berlin State Library and its surroundings . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-465-03442-2 (Journal for Libraries and Bibliography, Special Issue 87), pp. 171–190.
  • Mario Hütte: Fritz Milkau and the German loan system. In: Haike Meinhardt and Inka Tappenbeck (eds.): The library in the field of tension: history - services - values. Festschrift for Hermann Rösch, Bad Honnef: Bock and Herchen 2019, ISBN 978-3-88347-302-4 , pp. 57-78.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Milkau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 87/766
  2. ↑ No. 196/98, 24./26. August 1881.
  3. ↑ Inventor of interlibrary loan and union catalog. Fritz Milkau was a pioneer as a librarian - a committed champion for the reputation of his homeland East Prussia. In: Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 39, September 26, 2009.
  4. ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 . Potsdam 2006.
  5. ↑ Fridericus Milkau: De Vellei Paterculi genere dicendi quaestiones selectae. Dissertation. Hartung: Regimonti (= Königsberg) (1888) (digitized version)
  6. ^ Fritz Milkau: Directory of Bonn University Writings 1818–1885. In addition to an appendix containing the extraordinary doctorates. Friedrich Cohen: Bonn (1897). (Digitized version)
  7. ↑ On his 60th birthday, the Schlesische Zeitung paid tribute to him in its issue of September 28, 1919 (Georg Leyh)
  8. ^ Fritz Milkau: Handbuch der Bibliothekwissenschaft. 3 volumes. 1931-1940.
personal data
SURNAME Milkau, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milkau, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and library scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Soldering
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1934
Place of death Berlin