Hans Jessen (librarian)
Hans Jessen (born May 8, 1897 in Munich , † July 14, 1979 in Bremen ) was a German librarian , historian and newspaper scholar .
Life
He studied history, German , Latin and philosophy in Berlin and after his military service from 1917 in Greifswald and received his doctorate in 1921 under Ernst Bernheim with a dissertation on "The effects of the Augustinian philosophy of history on the worldview and historiography of Liudprand von Cremona ". In 1922 he finished his studies in Berlin with the state examination and became a volunteer at the university library of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , where he became a library assistant in 1924 after completing his professional training. He worked in Breslau and Greifswald, where he was appointed library councilor in 1928, then went back to Breslau and returned to the Prussian State Library in November 1937 . From the spring of 1944 he managed the relocated stocks in Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains . After the end of the war he worked in the Göttingen University Library . Then he went to the West German Library in Marburg and finally in August 1951 to the Bremen State Library . He retired in 1963.
Fonts (selection)
- Max Kurnik . A Wroclaw journalist (1819–1881) . Breslau 1927, OCLC 248708253 .
- with Ernst Meunier: The German feature section. A contribution to newspaper studies . Berlin 1931, OCLC 462965673 .
- God and the King. Frederick the Great's Religion and Religious Policy . Berlin 1936, OCLC 162936977 .
- Hirschberg. Song of praise of the contemporary . Breslau 1938, OCLC 493906764 .
literature
- Symbola Hans Jessen oblata. Festschrift for his 70th birthday . Wuerzburg 1967, OCLC 7338682 .
- Farewell to Hans Jessen , in: Journalism: Quarterly Issues for Communication Research . 24,3 (1979), pp. 404-405, ISSN 0033-4006 .
- Dr. Hans Jessen in memory , in: Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau . 20 (1979), pp. 9-12, ISSN 0448-1348 .
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SURNAME | Jessen, Hans |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librarian, historian and newspaper scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1897 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1979 |
Place of death | Bremen |