Hans Hornung

Hans Hornung (born June 24, 1926 in Schwäbisch Hall ; † July 13, 2014 in Tübingen ) was a German historian , librarian and university professor .

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After attending school in Tübingen (Abitur 1946), interrupted by military service and imprisonment, Hornung studied history , historical auxiliary sciences , Latin and Greek philology as well as geography and library science at the University of Tübingen from 1947 to 1952 . His doctorate took place here in 1956. He then worked as a research assistant in the Tübingen University Library, looking after the Tübingen depot of the former Prussian State Library. After brief employment at the Freiburg University Library and the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin, he completed training for the higher library service in Frankfurt / Main and Marburg / Lahn from 1969 to 1971, where he passed the specialist examination. He then worked again at the Berlin State Library. From 1972 until his retirement in 1988 he taught as a lecturer (since 1975 as a professor) at the University of Applied Sciences for Libraries in Stuttgart , where he was responsible for the fields of book and written history as well as subject indexing. The training of music librarians was added later.

Hans Hornung was married to the soprano Herrad Wehrung (1925-2010).

Fonts

• Daniel Sudermann as a manuscript collector. A contribution to the history of the Strasbourg library , dissertation Tübingen 1957 ( digitized from Manuscripta Mediaevalia ) (an abridged version appeared under the title “ The manuscript collector Daniel Sudermann and the library of the Strasbourg monastery St. Nikolaus in undis ” in the journal for the history of the Upper Rhine, NF 68: 338-399 (1959)).
• A fragment of the metric St. Cuthbert's Vita of Bede in the estate of the Brothers Grimm . In: Scriptorium, Vol. 14 (1960), pp. 344-346.
• (together with Hans Widmann): Names of Greek and Latin manuscripts . In: Klaus Bartels u. a. (Ed.): Lexikon der alten Welt, Artemis, Zurich 1965, Sp. 3373–3388.
• The book decoration of the Berlin copy of the forty-two line Bible . In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, vol. 1968, pp. 72-77.
• (as ed.): The Nibelungenlied in late medieval illustrations. The 37 image pages of the Hundeshagen Codex Ms. Germ. Fol. 855 of the former Prussian State Library Berlin, currently the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage , Verlagsanst. Athesia, Bozen 1968.
• The Aegidius fragment from Höxter. In: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, Jg. 9 (1969), Sp. 1625–1628.
• The fragments of Athis and Prophilias . In: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, Vol. 10 (1970), Sp. 679–684.
• (as ed.): Those who sow with tears. Cantata for four voices, two violins, viola and basso continuo / Johann Ludwig Bach , Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1976.
• Music theory for librarians. The subject “General Music Education ” in the “Accompanying Materials for Music Librarianship Education ”. In: Peter Vodosek (Ed.): Library science, music library, social library work. Hermann Waßner on his 60th birthday , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1982, pp. 254-261, ISBN 3-447-02258-2

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• CV of Hans Hornung 1957.
• Yearbook of German Libraries , Volume 50 (1983), p. 438.
• Obituary by Gertraud Voss-Krueger. In: Forum Musikbibliothek, vol. 36 (2015), pp. 38–40.