Gottfried Zedler

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Gottfried Zedler at his workplace in Wiesbaden, around 1930

Karl August Gottfried Immanuel Zedler (born December 5, 1860 in Vegesack , † 1945 near Küstrin ) was a German librarian and historian.

After graduating from high school in Bremen in 1881, Zedler went to study in Tübingen . During his studies he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia in 1881 . In 1882 he moved to Leipzig , where he obtained his doctorate in 1885 with a thesis on the Damnatio memoriae . He worked as a librarian at the university libraries in Marburg and Göttingen before moving to the Nassau State Library in Wiesbaden in 1895 , where he stayed until his retirement in 1933. In 1905 he received the title of professor, in 1908 he became senior librarian. From 1929 to 1933 he temporarily headed the library. He was evacuated from his retirement home in Schneidemühl (from 1943) on January 25, 1945 in a hospital train. The inmates were unloaded in Küstrin, after which there is no trace of him.

As a librarian, he developed pioneering ideas on the relationship between classification system and subject indexing and did an exemplary recataloging Wiesbaden Library (1904-1923). His manuscript catalog published in 1931 has not been replaced to this day.

Zedler emerged primarily as an incunabula researcher who dealt with book-historical problems around Johannes Gutenberg . His sensational thesis that the Dutchman Coster was the real discoverer, could not prevail.

Zedler served as secretary of the Nassau Society for Classical Studies and Historical Research and as secretary of the Historical Commission for Nassau . In addition to work on the history of the press and books, in the 1921 anniversary volume of the Nassau Annals , he presented extensive critical investigations into the early and high medieval history of the Rheingau , which mainly focused on the forgery of documents by Franz Joseph Bodmann and Georg Friedrich Schott .

Zedler's daughter, the actress Mathilde Zedler , was married to the actor and director Karl Striebeck .

literature

  • Obituaries by Rupprecht Leppla in: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 64 (1950), pp. 121-126 and Nassauische Annalen 61 (1950), pp. 262f.
  • From the Ducal Nassau Public Library to the RheinMain University and State Library 1813 - 2013 . Wiesbaden 2013 digitized HLB RheinMain

Web links

Wikisource: Gottfried Zedler  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. 1967, master roll no. 87.
  2. ↑ Zedler, Gottfried: The listing of the books and the subject cataloging of our German scientific libraries. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 42 (1925), pp. 427-441
  3. ↑ Online at Manuscripta Mediaevalia: http://bilder.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/kataloge/HSK0737.htm


personal data
SURNAME Zedler, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zedler, Karl August Gottfried Immanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Vegesack
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death with Küstrin