Hans Leimeister
Johan Georg Leimeister (born September 26, 1875 in Bischbrunn , † February 14, 1946 in Pulling ) was a German librarian .
education
Leimeister came as the son of the farmer Valentin Leimeister and his wife Maria Elisabetha, geb. Schwab, to the world and was baptized a Catholic. After attending primary school in Bischbrunn, he received private tuition, so that in autumn 1890 he passed the entrance exam for the 5th grade of the humanistic grammar school in Münnerstadt . In 1894 he switched to the humanistic grammar school in Aschaffenburg , where he obtained his school-leaving certificate in the same academic year.
In the fall of 1895 he began studying classical philology at the University of Würzburg . From 1896 to 1898 he was court master of the two sons of the Imperial Councilor Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg at the castles of Greifenstein and Jettingen . At the beginning of 1899, with ministerial approval, he was admitted as prefect to the royal nobles Julianum in Würzburg, where he worked for over two years. As a result of a serious accident he had to give up his position at Pentecost 1901 and interrupt his studies for a long time. In the fall of 1903 he passed the main philological and historical examination and enrolled at the University of Munich for the winter semester of 1903/04 , where he lectured on ancient philology and art history with Wilhelm von Christ , Otto Crusius , Adolf Furtwängler , Iwan von Müller , Carl Weyman and Eduard Wölfflin heard. In addition, he dealt with source studies on Plutarch's Roman biographies.
On October 3, 1904, he joined the KB Hof- und Staatsbibliothek as a trainee and passed the library specialist examination after about one and a half years of practice. In addition to this activity, he continued to attend lectures and received his doctorate from Weyman in the summer of 1907. His dissertation was entitled The Greek forms of declension by the poets Persius , Martialis and Juvenalis .
Librarianship
From 1908 Leimeister was assistant, from 1909 curator at the University Library of Würzburg . In 1913 he returned to the Munich Court and State Library, which remained the focus of his professional activity until 1944. In 1921 he was promoted to state librarianship.
He made great contributions to the Main-Spessart area by compiling the Spessart bibliography (Leimeister-Kartei), which comprises more than 120,000 titles and contains all of the printed literature on the Spessart and Lower Main . It is now in the Aschaffenburg City and Abbey Archives .
Leimeister's apartment was in Widenmayerstraße 3 .
literature
- Hans Hönlein : State Librarian Doctor Dr. Hans Leimeister: the bibliographer of the Spessart region , 1951
- Matthias Wellnhofer : Dr. Hans Leimeister * September 26 , 1875 † February 14 , 1946 , In: Aschaffenburger Jahrbuch 1 (1952), pp. 262–264
- Vita in his dissertation: The Greek forms of declension in the poets Persius, Martialis and Juvenalis . Munich 1907
- Karl Bosl : Bosl's Bavarian biography: 8000 personalities from 15 centuries , Regensburg: Pustet, 1983–1988
- Leimeister, Hans (Johann Georg) , In: Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1985
Individual evidence
- ^ Address book for the city of Munich and the surrounding area, 1922
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leimeister, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Master glue, Johann Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bischbrunn |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1946 |
| Place of death | Pulling |