Hans Striedl

Hans Striedl (born January 17, 1907 in Passau ; † December 31, 2002 ) was a German orientalist and librarian .

After attending primary school in Munich and the humanistic grammar school in Passau, Hans Striedl first studied Catholic theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Passau from 1928 . Here his interest in oriental languages ​​was awakened. In 1930 he moved to the University of Munich , where, in addition to theology, he studied Egyptian and Semitic philology and archeology, as well as Turkology , Persian , Hittite and Sanskrit . In 1934 he received his doctorate with a philological dissertation on the Hebrew book Esther . As a Hebraist in the time of National Socialism there was no academic career to be achieved and so he entered the library service. In 1934 he became a research assistant at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , and in 1936/37 he did his legal clerkship there. He then worked at the Würzburg University Library and then at the Bavarian State Library.

In 1941 he was drafted into military service, initially with a supply unit in Minsk , but then because of his language skills as an interpreter for Turkish at the Army Interpreter Institute in Berlin and finally at the interpreter training department of the Armed Forces High Command in Berlin-Eberswalde.

From 1948 he worked again at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, where he became head of the user department in 1952 and director of the catalog department in 1953. From 1962 Striedl was director of the Bavarian State Library and from 1967 to 1972 he was also Director General of the Bavarian State Libraries. In retirement he dealt with oriental studies again and wrote a. a. two volumes of the catalogs of the Hebrew manuscripts of the Bavarian State Library.

Striedl was a holder of the Federal Republic of Germany's Cross of Merit 1st Class , the Bavarian Order of Merit and an officer of the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques .

Publications (selection)

• The library of the orientalist Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter . In: Hans Joachim Kissling (Ed.): Serta Monacensia. Festschrift Franz Babinger . Leiden 1952, pp. 200-244.
• The humanist Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter as a classical philologist. In: Ceremony of the Bavarian State Library for Emil Gratzl. Wiesbaden 1953, pp. 96-120.

literature

• Franz Georg Kaltwasser : Hans Striedl . In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 50, 2003, 2, pp. 106-108 ( digitized version ).
• Peter Kuhn: Hans Striedl (1907–2002), librarian and orientalist . In: Annelies Kuyt, Gerold Necker (ed.): Orient als Grenzbereich? Rabbinical and extra-rabbinical Judaism . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05478-2 , pp. 201-216.