Herbert Munk

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Herbert Munk (born June 26, 1875 in Berlin , † April 19, 1953 in Lugano ) was a German philatelist and author .

Life

Munk was born the son of the Berlin architect Paul Munk. He studied philosophy and psychology in Berlin, Munich and Göttingen. In 1900 he did his doctorate at the University of Göttingen under Georg Elias Müller with a dissertation called "The phenomena with brief irritation of the visual organ" (date of the oral examination: May 11, 1900).

He was the author of a large part of the Kohl Postage Stamp Handbook . Furthermore, he was president of the technical committee of the Union of German Philatelic Associations and an international philatelic juror before the First World War .

Munk left Germany before the outbreak of war and continued his philatelic work in Switzerland . Around 120 years after the Rayon stamps were issued , it was still not possible to validly and correctly differentiate the different printing stones, i.e. the different editions of these stamps. They tried separating by color, but that proved imprecise. During the Second World War , Herbert Munk researched these issues, all of which had been produced by the lithographer Carl Durheim in Bern . Munk researched the differentiation between the different editions based on the printing stones. He named the first printing block A1.

honors and awards

For the Kohl-Handbuch he and JB Seymour were awarded the 1930 Sieger Prize for the best philatelic work in the German language. He received the Lindenberg Medal in 1925 and his name was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in Torquay in 1932 . In 1936 he received the Crawford Medal from the Royal Philatelic Society London . He was inducted into the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame and was made an honorary member of the Collectors Club of New York in 1949.

Memberships

Selected publications

  • Kohl-Briefmarken-Handbuch as publisher and main author of the 11th edition 1923 to 1936, from A to Italy
  • New ways of researching the federal editions 1850 ff. In the cross pattern 1941
  • All sorts of news about Locale and local post. 1951

literature

  • Obituary. In: Berliner Philatelisten-Klub of 1888: Mitteilungen , 66th year of the association, December 1953, new series No. 18; on the title page
  • M. Amrhein: Philatelic Literature , Volume 4, ISBN 9977-47-355-2 , pp. 219-220

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Munk: The phenomena with brief irritation of the visual organ . Barth, January 1, 1900 ( google.com [accessed January 30, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Maassen : Les Jalons de la Literature Philatelique au XIXe Siècle "/" Milestones of The Philatelic Literature of The 19th Century. Phil * Creativ, ISBN 978-3-932198-23-6 , p. 391 ff.
  3. ↑ Honegger Philatelie AG: The printing stones of Rayon II and I light blue , accessed on September 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ The Philatelic Database - Archive of Stamp Collecting Articles: Dr. Herbert Munk (1875-1953) , accessed September 12, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Munk, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philatelist and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1953
Place of death Lugano