Georg Wolfgang tanks
Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (born March 16, 1729 in Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate , † July 9, 1805 in Nuremberg ) was one of the most important and deserving bibliographers in Germany.
Live and act
Georg Panzer's father was the lawyer Bernhard Panzer, electoral court and government councilor. After attending the city school in Sulzbach and taking private lessons with Carl Friedrich Aichinger , Georg Wolfgang Panzer began studying philosophy and theology at the University of Altdorf in 1747 , which he completed in 1749 with the dissertation " De falsis quibusdam conclusionibus ex attributis divinis " to obtain a master's degree in philosophy .
From 1751 to 1760 he held the parish office in Etzelwang . On August 29, 1760 he was appointed deacon at the main parish church of St. Sebald in Nuremberg; twelve years later, on April 2, 1772, he assumed the seniorate of his chapter and was named senior pastor of the Church the following year . In the following he also headed the Nuremberg City Library .
As the chief pastor of St. Sebaldus, Panzer introduced church innovations, including a. he abolished superfluous church services, introduced general confession and reformed the hymn book. He was a member of several societies: the Altdorf and Leipzig Society , the Nuremberg Society for the Promotion of Patriotic Industry and the Pegnese Order of Flowers , of which he became head in 1789.
In 1802 he was able to celebrate his 50th anniversary in office and his golden wedding anniversary; On July 9, 1805, Georg Wolfgang Panzer died of a stroke. His wife was Rosine Helene Jantke, died in 1806, the daughter of Altdorf professor of medicine Johann Jakob Jantke (1687–1768). The marriage had two well-known sons: the theologian Johann Friedrich Heinrich Panzer and the botanist Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer .
Literary activity
Since his time in the countryside in Etzelwang, Panzer had advanced his studies and continued his literary activity continuously until his death. In addition to articles in magazines, he published 45 independent works, including occasional Latin, a number of translations from English and French, some with geographical content, theological writings and a study on Ulrich von Hutten . His main work, however, was his multi-volume bibliography, which became a basic work for book studies well into the 20th century. For these activities Georg Wolfgang Panzer was honored on June 20, 1799 by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Altdorf on the occasion of his fifty-year master’s degree with the diploma of a Doctor of Theology.
The bibliographies
Panzer's extensive bibliographic work covers three areas: the oldest bibliographic editions, the older German literature since the invention of the art of printing and all literature up to 1536. In addition, he wrote a history of the Nuremberg printers and a three-volume Latin catalog of the library of Gottfried Thomasius, a Nuremberg doctor , with 27,251 numbers and a list of portraits from Nuremberg (Nuremberg 1790).
As supervisor of the Nuremberg city library, Panzer had started to record their Bibles: " Litterary news from the very oldest printed German Bibles from the 15th century, which are kept in the public library of the imperial city of Nuremberg ", published in 1777; 1778 followed the " history of the Nuremberg editions of the Bibles from the invention of the printing art to our times ". On this basis, Panzer then recorded the Bible prints and their translations beyond Nuremberg: " Detailed description of the oldest Augsburg editions of the Bible, with literary notes " (Nuremberg, 1780), " Attempt to create a short history of the Roman Catholic German translation of the Bible " (Nuremberg, 1781) as well as the " Draft of a complete history of the German translation of the Bible by Dr. Martin Luther from 1517 - 1581 ", also published in Nuremberg in 1781 and supplemented by a second, enlarged edition in 1791.
Panzer also provided the first comprehensive collection of incunabula and early prints . The " Annals of older German literature or display and description of those books which were printed in German from the invention of the art of printing up to 1526 " appeared in two volumes in 1788 (and again in 1805) ; the " Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine usque ad annum MDXXXVI " published between 1793 and 1803 now also include the editions in Latin in a total of eleven volumes. These annals became the basis of incunabula research in the 19th century and inspired, among other things, the then modern systematic compilation of Ludwig Hain's 1826/38 , which in turn made possible the complete catalog of incunabula prints initiated by Konrad Haebler and continuously printed since 1925 , its editing, and for some Time also online position, today is perceived by the Berlin State Library .
estate
Georg Wolfgang Panzer himself owned an extensive and valuable library, including a collection of around 600 Bibles, which he had sold to Duke Carl Eugen von Württemberg in 1780 and which are now in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart.
literature
- Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, Vol. 3, pp. 203-207, online
- Fritz Funke: Book customer. An overview of the history of books and writing . Munich-Pullach, 1969, p. 101f.
- Christian Conrad Nopitsch: Georg Andreas Will's Nürnbergisches Schehrten-Lexicon ... continued by CC Noptisch. Seventh part or third supplementary volume . Altdorf 1806, pp. 94–99 ( digitized version )
- Heinrich Pallmann : Panzer, Georg Wolfgang . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 132-134.
- Georg Andreas Will : Nuremberg scholarly lexicon. Third part . Nuremberg and Altdorf 1757, pp. 118–119 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Wolfgang Panzer in the catalog of the German National Library
- The estate in the Bavarian State Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Panzer, Georg Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Panzer, Georg Wolfgang Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pastor and author of bibliographies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1729 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sulzbach (Upper Palatinate) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1805 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |