Historical collections of the Central and State Library Berlin Foundation
The historical collections are a special area within the Foundation Central and State Library Berlin .
The inventory (as of 2016) includes around 500,000 volumes, almost 56,000 autographs, some incunabula (incunabula), numerous artist books and graphics.
General
The historical collections were created in 1901 with the establishment of the Berlin City Library (BStB) from valuable parts of the municipal library as well as from foundations, donations and purchases of libraries and bequests from important Berlin personalities. They are a mirror of Berlin's history and its urban-bourgeois culture. Until recently, collections that were created in Berlin and / or have a close content-related relationship with the city have been taken over and preserved by the ZLB in accordance with the provisions of its foundation law.
The Department of Historical Collections | Berlin Studies is integrated into a regional as well as international cooperation network.
In addition to the main tasks of maintaining the holdings and building new collections, the intention is to continue the project to search for cultural assets that have been confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution , in order to return these books to the previous owners or today's descendants, owners or heirs .
Some collections (examples)
- Library of the Social Democratic MP Emil Basner (1852-1918)
- Library of the poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965)
- Library of the Frauenwohl Association (founded in 1888)
- Library of the poet Franz Fühmann (1922–1984)
- Library of the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster ( permanent loan )
- Library of Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867–1950) and secondary literature on trivial literature
- Göritz-Lübeck-Stiftung - contains the estate of gymnastics father Jahn
- some plans by Jean de Bodt (1670–1745)
- Library of the writer and publicist Julius Rodenberg (1831–1914)
- Library and estate of the economist Jürgen Kuczynski (1904–1997)
- Library of Karl August Prince von Hardenberg (1750–1822)
- Works and manuscripts by Willibald Alexis actually Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Häring (1798–1871)
- Library of the physician Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902)
literature
- Annette Gerlach: Unlawful book possession in the central and state library Berlin. In: Regine Dehnel (ed.): Jewish book ownership as looted property. Second Hanover Symposium. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-465-03448-1 , pp. 305-320 ( Journal for Libraries and Bibliography. Special Issues 88).
- Peter P. Rohrlach: Berlin City Library . In: Bernhard Fabian (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany . Volume 14: Berlin. Part 1. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim et al. 1995, ISBN 3-487-10054-1 , pp. 222-246.
- Hans-Ulrich Mehner: The literary special collections. In: 25 Years of America Memorial Library , Berlin Central Library . Saur, Munich et al. 1979, ISBN 3-598-10194-5 , pp. 165-172.
Web links
- Historical collections of the Central and State Library Berlin
- Alphabetical overview of the collection