Helmar Härtel

Helmar Härtel (born May 28, 1942 in Breslau ) is a German librarian , codicologist and binding researcher . He was director of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel .

Life

Härtel studied history, Latin and theology from 1962 to 1968 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and at King's College London . He received his doctorate in 1969 in Göttingen with Hermann Heimpel on Lollardic teaching elements in the 14th and 15th centuries . From 1974 to 2007 he was a scientific librarian at the Herzog August Library and from 1996 to 2007 head of the department for manuscripts, incunabula and special collections.

His work focuses on studies of medieval manuscripts, the library history of the Herzog August Library and the history of medieval libraries in Lower Saxony .

During his activity at the Herzog August Bibliothek, an extensive collection of cover rubbings was made under his direction , which is systematically indexed in the cover database and made available on the Internet.

Fonts

• Address book for the collections of medieval manuscripts in Lower Saxony. Wolfenbüttel: Office for the indexing of manuscripts in Lower Saxony in the Herzog August Library, 1976
• The manuscripts of the Abbey Library in Gandersheim. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1978
• The manuscripts of the Andreanum grammar school in the Hildesheim city archive / Doris Fouquet-Plümacher, Helmar Härtel, Marlis Stähli. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1978
• Bibliotheca Tiliana: old hunting books from all over the world / Kurt Lindner, Helmar Härtel. Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Library 1978
• Translatio S. Alexandri auctoribus Ruodolfo et Meginharto Fuldensibus. - Facs Dr. of the manuscript Landesbibliothek Hannover Ms I 186. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1979
• Book and text in the 15th century / lectures ed. by Lotte Hellinga , Helmar Härtel. Hamburg: Hauswedell, 1981
• Manuscripts from the Lower Saxony State Library Hanover / Helmar Härtel, Felix Ekowski. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1982
• The manuscripts in the Hildesheim Cathedral Treasury. Descriptions by Marlis Stähli. Edited by Helmar Härtel. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1984
• Problems of editing medieval manuscripts / Helmar Härtel et al. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1986
• Manuscripts from the Lower Saxony State Library in Hanover; Part 1; Ms I 1 - Ms I 174 / Helmar Härtel, Felix Ekowski, Hans Immel. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989
• Manuscripts of the cathedral library Hildesheim; Part 1; Hs 124a - Hs 698 / Marlis Stähli, Helmar Härtel, Renate Giermann, Marina Arnold. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1991
• Manuscripts of the cathedral library Hildesheim; Part 2; Hs 700-1050, St. God. No. 1-51, Ps 1-6, J 23-95 / Renate Giermann, Helmar Härtel, Marina Arnold. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993
• Manuscripts from the Ebstorf monastery / Renate Giermann, Helmar Härtel. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994
• The Ebstorf monastery library. Reform and School Reality at the End of the Middle Ages. In: Martin Kintzinger , Sönke Lorenz , Michael Walter (eds.): School and students in the Middle Ages. Contributions to the European history of education from the 9th to 15th centuries. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1996, pp. 245-258.
• Manuscripts from the Kestner Museum in Hanover. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999
• The book of hours of Duke Augustus d. J. Berlin: Kulturstiftung der Länder, 2004
• Treasures from the collections of the Herzog August Library: a guided tour from late antiquity to the Reformation. Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Library 1999
• The book of hours of Duke Augustus d. J. Berlin: Kulturstiftung der Länder, 2004
• Written and painted: learned books made by women; a monastery library of Saxon Benedictine nuns of the 12th century. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006
• Tradition as a challenge: cimilies from the collections of the Herzog August Library. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfenbüttler collection of binding rubbings

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmar Härtel in the catalog of the German National Library