Heinrich Schneider (Librarian)

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Heinrich Schneider (born April 30, 1889 in Offenbach am Main , † June 3, 1972 in California ) was an American librarian and Germanist of German origin.

Life

Heinrich Schneider, son of teacher Heinrich Christian Schneider and Lina nee Rohn, devoted himself to put- graduate studies of theology , German literature and historical studies at the Universities of Tuebingen , Leipzig and casting , which he in 1911 with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. phil. and graduated in 1912 with the examination for the higher teaching post. He became a candidate for higher library service in Gießen in 1912 and assistant librarian at the university library in 1914, after serving in the First World War in 1920 he was a librarian; at the same time he received a teaching position in history. In 1921 he moved to the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, where he was appointed acting director in 1923. In 1926 Schneider accepted a call as senior librarian and library councilor at the Lübeck City Library , where he became first library councilor and deputy director in 1930.

After Heinrich Schneider and the library director Willy Pieth were on leave in March 1933 for political reasons and then dismissed at the beginning of July , he first emigrated to Sofia , taught as a visiting professor at the American College until he moved to the USA in 1936, where he worked until his In 1955 he retired and taught at Harvard University in Cambridge , among others . Schneider - he died in California in 1972 at the age of 83 - is one of the most important Lessing researchers of his time.

In 1953 Schneider was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • Use of the attributive epithet in Schiller's and Goethe's verse dramas . Christ & Herr, 1911 ( dissertation ).
  • Contributions to the history of the Helmstedt University Library. Verlag des Universitätsbund, Helmstedt 1924.
  • The portrait of Eva Lessing. G. Engelhardt Nachf., Wolfenbüttel 1924.
  • Lessing and Wolfenbüttel. J. Zwißler, Wolfenbüttel 1924.
  • Joachim Morsius and his group. On the intellectual history of the 17th century. Otto Quitzow Verlag, Lübeck 1929.
  • Klaus Groth and Emanuel Geibel . Ceremony for the opening of the Geibel room of the Lübeck city library on the occasion of the 26th German Librarian Day Whitsun 1930 in Lübeck. Lübeck City Library, Lübeck 1930.
  • Lessing. Twelve biographical studies. Lehnen, Munich 1951.

literature

  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .
  • Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1985 (Journal of Libraries and Bibliography. Special Issue 42).
  • Felicitas Hundhausen: Heinrich Schneider. Librarian and scholar. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-447-03732-6 (Wolfenbütteler Schriften zur Geschichte des Buchwesen. Volume 24; not evaluated).
  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 55.
  • Philobiblon: a quarterly for book and graphic collectors. Volume 40, E. Hauswedell, 1996, p. 154.
  • Jörg Fligge , Peter Borchardt (Ed.): The scientific city library and the development of municipal library structures in Europe since 1945. Harrassowitz in commission, 2001, ISBN 3-447-04406-3 , p. 46.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 50, p. 352
  2. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999 ( [1] ). Retrieved September 23, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American librarian and German scholar of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 1972
Place of death California