Georg Burkhard Lauterbach
Georg Burkhard Lauterbach , also Georg Burckhard Lauterbach (born October 19, 1683 in Lüneburg , † August 26, 1751 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German librarian . From 1717 to 1751 he worked at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.
Life
Georg Burkhard Lauterbach was born in Lüneburg in 1683 as the son of the rector of the Lüneburg Johanneum , Mag. Christoph Henr. Lauterbach († 1696), born. He studied theology in Halle and then law. Lauterbach went to Braunschweig in 1710 , where he worked as court master and secretary for the Count von der Schulenburg . From 1712 he was an actuary in the office of Schöningen and from August 1716 from Saldernscher legal advisor in Plattenburg .
In 1717, according to other information, in 1719, he first went to the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel as registrar , and was its first secretary from 1727 to 1751. During his long years of service Lauterbach made great contributions to the ducal library. He continued the alphabetical catalog created by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz by entering new acquisitions and introducing real headings . He put together the first alphabetical index of Weißenburger and Gudeschen as well as extravagant manuscripts. Lauterbach took care of the purchase of new books, he wrapped manuscripts and prints and created the often preserved headings and table of contents for anthologies. He was valued by a large number of learned users of the library, as evidenced by his extensive correspondence. Lauterbach published 1737 under a pseudonym published history of the order . A catalog of balneological literature, a list of famous people from the books in the library and a collection of genealogical notes remained unprinted .
Lauterbach died in August 1751 at the age of 67 in Wolfenbüttel.
Fonts (selection)
- Gregorius Rivius Puritanus (pseudonym): Monastica historia occidentis scabra et salebrosa floribus constrata ... , Leipzig 1737. ( digitized version )
literature
- Werner Arnold: Lauterbach, Georg Burkhard . In: Georg Ruppelt and Sabine Solf (eds.): Lexicon on the past and present of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel , Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-447-03922-1 , p. 100.
- Otto von Heinemann : The ducal library to Wolfenbüttel. A contribution to the history of German book collections . 2., completely new. Ed. Wolfenbüttel 1894 (Reprint Amsterdam 1969), p. 138. ( digitized version ).
- Wolfgang Milde : Lauterbach, Georg Burkhard . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 429-430 .
- Karl Philipp Christian Schönemann : Georg Burkhard Lauterbach . In: Robert Naumann (Ed.): Serapeum . Journal for library studies, manuscript studies and older literature , Volume 3, Leipzig 1842, pp. 218–223.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of German writers who died between 1750 and 1800 , Volume 8, Leipzig 1808, p. 91.
- ↑ Wolfgang Milde: Lauterbach, Georg Burkhard . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 429 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lauterbach, Georg Burkhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lauterbach, Georg Burckhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1683 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luneburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1751 |
| Place of death | Wolfenbüttel |