Georg Kloß

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Georg Kloß, portrait by Johann Heinrich Hasselhorst
Kloß 'bookplate

Georg Kloß (born July 31, 1787 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 10, 1854 there ) was a German doctor, collector of books, especially bibliographies, and historian.

Life

Kloß initially received private tuition and then attended grammar school, where in 1805 he founded a school association Palatia . He was asked to study medicine by his father, a surgeon. He started it at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he joined the Suevia Landsmannschaft . He moved to the Georg-August University of Göttingen , where he and other students founded a country team for the Rhinelander on January 14, 1809 . At the beginning of February 1809 it merged with the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . His student days in Heidelberg and Göttingen are reflected in his correspondence with his Heidelberg coätan Alexander Stein .

After receiving his doctorate in 1809 as Dr. med. In Göttingen he began his medical practice in 1810 at the Rochusspital in Frankfurt am Main, where he became the successor of the chief physician Johann Christian Ehrmann around 1817 . The medical activity soon took a backseat to his other, diverse interests, for which he was known. 1813 named him Carl Theodor von Dalberg to Professor medical yet to be established college that was not realized. However, he was allowed to continue to use the title. In 1814 he married Johannette Maria Philippine Siebert. More than his work as a doctor, he became known for his pronounced passion for bibliographical collecting. His collection of palaeotypes was of extraordinary size and passed to the Frankfurt City Library on his death .

As early as 1835 he had part of his library auctioned in English on the basis of a printed auction catalog published by Sotheby’s in London (see also the note from Bernhard Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden ) and in the following years he took advantage of the price differential between Germany and England by selling books and bought libraries in Germany cheaply and had them marketed in London.

In 1805, at the age of 18, Kloß was accepted as a so-called “Lufton” (term for a Freemason's son) in the “Zur Einigkeit” lodge in Frankfurt as a Freemason . In 1828 his brothers chose him as master of the chair . In 1836 he became Grand Master of the Eclectic League . With several publications from 1842 on the history of Freemasonry , he became the founder of Masonic history research in Germany. His Masonic estate went to the Grand Master of the Masons, Prince Friedrich of the Netherlands , who archived it in The Hague and made it accessible to Freemasons, today the Bibliotheca Klossiana in the Cultural Masonic Center "Prins Frederik" .

Digitized books with ex-libris notation

Works

  • Annals of the Lodge for Unity , Frankfurt a. M. 1842, reprint Graz 1972. Google Books
  • Bibliography of Freemasonry , Sauerlander, Frankfurt a. M. 1844, reprinted 1970. Google Books
  • Freemasonry in its true meaning evidenced from the old and genuine documents of the stonemasons, Masons and Freemasons . Klemm, Leipzig 1846, reprint 1970. Google Books
  • History of Freemasonry in England, Ireland and Scotland , 1848, reprinted 1971.
  • History of Freemasonry in France, presented from real documents , 2 vols., Jonghans, Darmstadt 1852 and 1853.
Volume 1: From the introduction of Freemasonry in France to the restoration of royalty. Google Books
Volume 2: From the Restoration of the Kingdom to the Julius Revolution. Google Books
  • Brothers encircle yourselves. A Göttingen Commers report (...) From 1809. Richler, Frankfurt am Main 1934.
  • The Idiotikon der Burschenssprache , published with an introduction by Carl Manfred Frommel , Frankfurt a. M. 1931.
  • From the early days of the Heidelberg, Tübingen and Göttingen S [enioren-] C [onvents] 1807–1809. Correspondence between the Heidelberg Swabians Georg Kloß Rhenaniae and Hannoverae Göttingen and Alexander Stein. Once and now , special volume 1963.

literature

  • Adolf Callisen : Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated peoples: Jou - Lal , Volume 10, Altona 1832, p. 254
  • Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen. Volume 1, 1809–1899, Göttingen 2002, No. 31
  • Otto Deneke : Old Göttingen country teams. Göttingen 1937.
  • Kloß, Georg , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 175-176.
  • Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner and Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon , revised and extended new edition of the edition from 1932, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3 .
  • Franz Stadtmüller (Hrsg.): History of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen 1809-1959 . Göttingen 1963, p. 27 ff.
  • Wilhelm Stricker:  Kloß, Georg Franz Burkhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 227 f.

Web links

Commons : Georg Kloß  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Georg Kloß  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 121 , 28; 83 , 3; 70 , 1.
  2. ↑ Otto Deneke: Old Göttinger Landsmannschaften. Göttingen 1937, p. 56 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Kloß, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kloß, Georg Franz Burkhard (full name); Kloss, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, collector of bibliographies and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1854
Place of death Frankfurt am Main