Heinrich Endres (librarian)

Heinrich Endres (born August 7, 1888 in Karlstadt a. M .; † October 14, 1969 ) was a German librarian.

Life

Endres studied classical philology and history and received his doctorate in Würzburg in 1913 . The following year he started as a research assistant at the University Library of Würzburg , where he became an intern in 1916. In 1919 he went to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, where he passed his specialist examination. In the same year he became an assistant in the University Library of Würzburg, where he stayed until his retirement in 1953. Endres excelled in particular as a binding researcher and published numerous specialist articles.

Fonts (selection)

• The official foundations of the Alexander tradition and work of Ptolemy: Source-critical studies on the history of Alexander , Würzburg: Staudenraus 1913 (Würzburg, Univ., Diss., 1913).
• Krateros, Perdiccas and the last plans of Alexander . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, 72 (1917–1918), pp. 437–445.
• Geographical horizon and politics with Alexander the great in the years 330/323 , Würzburg: self-published 1924.
• The Zwickau bookbinders Hans Rietzsch and Gregor Schenck and their relationship with Würzburg . In: Archives for Bookbinding, Vol. 26 (1926), pp. 13ff.
• News from old Erfurt masters of the XV. Century; Supplements and new finds from the University Library of Würzburg . In: Jahrbuch der Einbandkunst, Vol. 1 (1927), pp. 44–54.
• Bookbinders and heraldic supralibros in the 16th century: observations from Würzburg workshops between 1570 and 1600 . In: Archiv für Buchbinderei, Vol. 30 (1930), pp. 49–51.
• Library and super exlibris of the cathedral dean Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn . In: Särtryck ur Nordisk Tidskrift för Bokoch Bibliotheksväsen, Vol. 20 (1933), pp. 42–48.
• Three new bindings by the Heidelberg master Alberthus Schwab . In: Archiv für Buchbinderei, Vol. 35 (1935), Issue 2, pp. 9-16.
• The Franconian traveling printer Hans Baumann from Rothenburg ob der Tauber (1510–1570) His life and work . In: Archive of the Historical Association of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg, Vol. 71 (1937), Issue 1, pp. 73–91.
• Old Würzburg printer brands and their fate . In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst, Vol. 2 = 73 (1950), pp. 339–342.
• The Würzburg citizen Adam Kahl (1539–1594) and his diary (1559–1574) , [Würzburg]: Friends of Mainfränkischer Kunst u. History 1952 (Mainfränkische Hefte; 14).
• Johannes Trithemius and Burkard von Horneck: a theological scholarly friendship; Building blocks for the history of early humanism in Würzburg . In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst, Vol. 9 = 80 (1957), pp. 159–169.
• On the history of the bookbinding of the Benedictine monastery of St. Stefan in Würzburg . In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst, Vol. 10 = 81 (1958), pp. 254–260.

literature

• Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , pp. 68f.