Georg Leidinger

Georg Leidinger (born December 30, 1870 in Ansbach , † March 9, 1945 in Marquartstein ) was a German historian and librarian .

Georg Leidinger studied law and history at the University of Munich and received his doctorate there with a thesis on the late medieval Bavarian chronicler Veit Arnpeck . During his studies he became a member of the Academic Choral Society in Munich . In 1893 he joined today's Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and ten years later became head of the manuscript department. Leidinger mainly worked in the field of medieval source studies and published the editions of the Bavarian chroniclers Veit Arnpeck and Andreas von Regensburg , which are still relevant today . In 1922, Leidinger became an honorary professor for library science at the University of Munich and finally deputy general director at the Bavarian State Library. The hoped-for promotion to general director was denied him. From 1929 until his death he was the first chairman of the Commission for Bavarian State History , and was also a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (full member since 1916) and the Historical Commission (full member since 1920). He was editor of the Upper Bavarian Archives from 1909 to 1941.

Works (selection)

• 1901: Chronicle and tribe of the Count Palatine of the Rhine and Dukes in Bavaria 1501
• 1912: List of the most important miniature manuscripts
• 1930: Munich poet of the fourteenth century

literature

• Sigrid von Moisy:  Leidinger, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 137 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Werner Goez : Obituary Georg Leidinger. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. Volume 8, 1951, pp. 259 f. ( Digitized version )
• Albert Hartmann (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Georg Leidinger. For his 60th birthday on December 30, 1930. Munich 1930.
• Paul Ruf: Georg Leidinger †. In: Journal for Bavarian State History . Volume 15, 1949, pp. 174-184 ( online )
• Gerhard Hölzle: "You have to be ashamed to be a Bavarian and a German." - The Munich Soviet Republic 1918/19 in the diary of Dr. Georg Leidinger. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern, Vol. 12, 2018, pp. 270–275 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Leidinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Leidinger as an employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)
• The estate is in the Bavarian State Library

Remarks

1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 193.