Hans H. Bockwitz

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Hans H. Bockwitz (complete: Hans-Heinrich Bockwitz ; born September 4, 1884 in Waldheim , † December 4, 1954 in Leipzig ) was a German book scholar , paper historian and museum director. He has written numerous specialist publications.

Life

Bockwitz was born as the son of the teacher Karl Emil Bockwitz and his wife Charlotte Minna. Döring in Waldheim i. Saxony and attended the community school there, then the Progymnasium in Grimma . In Freiberg i. In Saxony , he obtained his high school diploma at Easter 1906. He studied philosophy , education , Romance studies and German studies in Berlin, Grenoble and Erlangen and was awarded a doctorate in 1910 with a thesis on the Swiss philosopher and theologian Jean-Jacques Gourd (1850–1909). phil. PhD . During the First World War he was exempt from military service because of a heart defect. From October 1, 1915, he was a volunteer and, from January 1, 1919, assistant director at the German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig . From 1929 to 1954 he was director of the museum.

The scientific work of Bockwitz suffered several serious setbacks and losses. After completing his doctorate, he went on study trips to Germany, Switzerland and France until 1914, made translations from French and worked on a historical-bibliographical work on Kant in France . When he fled France when the war broke out in August 1914, the manuscripts that had been prepared up to that point were lost. During the Second World War, too, he suffered the most serious losses. During the air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943, not only the exhibition collection opened on June 22, 1940 in the extension of the German Book Trade House, as well as essential holdings and catalogs of the museum, were destroyed, but also the manuscript on a large-scale history of paper and his watermark burned with all documents and images. With lively support from the General Director of the Deutsche Bücherei Heinrich Uhlendahl and in close cooperation with Martha Debes and Fritz Funke , Bockwitz succeeded in reopening the exhibition of the German Museum of Books and Writing on May 4, 1954.

Bockwitz worked as the editor of several specialist journals ( Archive for Book Trade 1924–1944, Book and Writing 1927–1943, Literary Supplement of the Association for Books and Literature 1924–1933).

Bockwitz had lectureships on books and writing at the Leipzig library school and held lectures at the University of Leipzig for candidates for the higher service in academic libraries. In 1954 he was appointed Professor of Book Studies.

Bockwitz was a recognized expert in the fields of writing, book studies and the history of paper. He kept in close contact with colleagues at home and abroad such as Henri Alibaux, Emile Joseph Labarre , Alfred Schulte, Viktor Thiel and Karl Theodor Weiß . In collaboration with Adolf Benedello, director of the Hagen-Kabel paper mill, Bockwitz succeeded in making important publications on the history of paper.

Hans H. Bockwitz, tomb at the southern cemetery in Leipzig (repealed in 2016)

Bockwitz was married to Johanna Gertrud Bockwitz (* September 4, 1882 - August 26, 1949) since May 22, 1914. The common urn grave was located in the south cemetery in Leipzig until 2016 .

Honors

  • Festschrift for his 65th birthday (1949)
  • He was the bearer of the Gutenberg Ring of the city of Leipzig.
  • Ring of Honor of the Research Center for Paper History (1954).

estate

  • The estate of Hans H. Bockwitz is in the German Museum of Books and Writing in the German National Library in Leipzig.
  • The private library was acquired by the Institute for Library Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin from the estate.

Publications (selection)

  • Jean Jacques Gourd's philosophical system. Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1911.
  • The German Museum for Books and Writing. His becoming and his goals. German Association for Books and Literature, Leipzig 1930.
  • The German Museum for Books and Writing. 1884-1934. In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Nutzgraphik 71 (1934), No. 10, pp. 623–664.
  • A little ABC on the history of lithography. Compiled for friends of lithography and their masters in Senefelder's commemorative year 1934 for his birthday on November 6th. In: Archives for book trade and commercial graphics 71 (1934), pp. 807–818.
  • On the cultural history of paper. In: The chronicle of the field mill . Feldmühle AG, Stettin 1935, pp. 9-101 (also published as a separate reprint with different page numbers).
  • On the history of paper and its watermarks. In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Nutzgraphik 76 (1939), No. 8, pp. 417–440.
  • German paper history research and the research center for paper history (at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz) . In: Buch und Schrift 4 (1941), pp. 110-119.
  • Papermaking in Goethe's time. Kabel paper mill, Hagen-Kabel 1949.
  • On the history of cardboard and cardboard in the age of hand papermaking. In: Cardboard through the ages. Cardboard History Studies. Feldmühle paper u. Zellstoffwerke, Hillegossen 1951, pp. 9–46.
  • Martha Debes, Fritz Funke (ed.): Contributions to the cultural history of the book. Selected essays. VEB Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1956.

literature

  • Martha Debes: Professor Dr. Hans H. Bockwitz (1884–1954.) Director of the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German Library, Leipzig. Directory of his writings. Institute f. Library studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin 1960.
  • Horst Kunze : Hans H. Bockwitz in memory. In: Horst Kunze: The focus is on the book . VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1980, pp. 96– [106].

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Kunze : Hans Heinrich Bockwitz †. In: Horst Kunze: Book Companions. Articles from six decades on book designers, publishers, booksellers and librarians. Pirckheimer Society V., Berlin 1999, p. 36.
  2. ↑ Guy Le Comte: Jean-Jacques Gourd. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 17, 2007 , accessed June 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hans H. Bockwitz: JJ Gourd and his "Trois dialectiques". Diss. Phil. Erlangen, 1910. Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1910.
  4. ^ Hans H. Bockwitz: Curriculum Vitae (Leipzig, Aug. 30, 1946).
  5. ↑ Hans H. Bockwitz: Tour of the permanent collection of the German Book and Writing Museum, founding property of the German Book Trade Association since 1884. 2nd edition. Publishing Department of the German Book Trade Association, Leipzig 1943.
  6. ↑ Lothar Pöthe, Hannelore Schneider Heinze: Chronicle of the German Book and Writing Museum . In: Signs - Books - Knowledge Networks. 125 years of the German Museum of Books and Writing of the German National Library. Göttingen 2009, p. 383.
  7. ^ Frieder Schmidt: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Hans H. Bockwitz. In: Wochenblatt für Papierfabrikation 132 (2004), No. 22, p. 1441.
  8. ↑ Horst Kunze: Foreword . In: Contributions to the cultural history of the book. Selected essays. VEB Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1956, P.VIII.
  9. ^ Hans H. Bockwitz: On French paper history research of the present. Henri Alibaux, Lyon, and his paper history works. In: Wochenblatt für Papierfabrikation 69 (1938), No. 30, pp. 628–629
  10. ↑ Hans H. Bockwitz: Henri Alibaux as paper researcher, 1872-1941. In: Wochenblatt für Papierfabrikation 77 (1949), No. 1, pp. 17-18.
  11. ↑ Hans H. Bockwitz: The Research Center for Paper History at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz and its director Alfred Schulte: fell in the East on April 2, 1944 at the age of 44. In: Deutsches Buchgewerbe 2 (1944), No. 5/6, p. 117
  12. ↑ Hans H. Bockwitz: † Viktor Thiel. 1871-1946. In: Wochenblatt für Papierfabrikation 76 (1948), No. 11, p. 272.
  13. ↑ Hans H. Bockwitz: † Karl Theodor Weiß. In: Das Papier 1 (1947), No. 3/4, pp. 77-78.
  14. ↑ Albert Haemmerle : Adolf Benedello. † November 9, 1964. In: Papiergeschichte , Volume 14, 1964, Issue 3/4, pp. 56–57.
  15. ↑ Ursula Jennemann-Henke: paper history. Inventory for the holdings N 43 (Adolf Benedello), N 47 (Hoesch family) and F 146 (Stora Kabel GmbH) . Westphalian Economic Archives Foundation, Dortmund 1999, p. 50.
  16. ↑ Justus Claproth's treatise from 1774 on the use of waste paper for paper production. Papierfabrik Kabel A.-G., Hagen-Kabel 1947.
  17. ^ Wilhelm Herzberg: The Schäffer's paper experiments . Accompanying text v. Hans H. Bockwitz. Papierfabrik Kabel A.-G., Hagen-Kabel 1949.
  18. ↑ Adolf Benedello: Chinese papermaking in the 18th century in words and pictures. Papierfabrik Kabel A.-G., Hagen-Kabel 1952.
  19. ↑ XXII. Department, grave site Prof. Bockwitz, Urnengarten IV, 912.
  20. ↑ Horst Kunze (ed.): Book and paper. Book and paper history work. Hans H. Bockwitz for his 65th birthday . Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1949.
  21. ^ Armin Renker : The director of the German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig, Dr. On the occasion of his 70th birthday on September 4, 1954, Hans H. Bockwitz was awarded the Third Ring of Honor of the Research Center for Paper History in recognition of his services to research into paper history. In: Papiergeschichte 5, 1955, No. 2, pp. 45–47.
  22. ↑ http://d-nb.info/dnbn/1068404418
  23. ↑ Horst Kunze: accompanying word . In: Martha Debes: Professor Dr. Hans H. Bockwitz (1884–1954.) Director of the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German Library, Leipzig. Directory of his writings. Institute f. Library studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin 1960.
personal data
SURNAME Bockwitz, Hans H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bockwitz, Hans-Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paper historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldheim
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1954
Place of death Leipzig