Horst Gronemeyer

Horst Gronemeyer (born December 16, 1933 in Altona ) is a German librarian and Germanist .

Life

Gronemeyer studied German and classical philology at the University of Hamburg from 1953 to 1961 . After graduating, he became a lecturer for German language and literature at the University of Edinburgh (1961–1963). In 1963 he published his dissertation, which he had submitted to the University of Hamburg, entitled Investigations into the history of the German Virgil transmission, with special emphasis on Rudolf Alexander Schröder . From 1963 to 1998 Gronemeyer was librarian at the State and University Library Hamburg , from 1978 to 1998 its professor and director.

From 1974 he was head of research and co-editor of the historical-critical edition of the works and letters of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock . In 1997 he published the letters of the Hamburg poet Friedrich von Hagedorn , about whom he published the portrait of Friedrich von Hagedorn, Hamburg's forgotten poet , in 2008. From 1982 to 2002 Gronemeyer was chairman of the Maximilian Society , the largest German bibliophile association. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg .

literature

• Harald Weigel (Ed.): Festschrift for Horst Gronemeyer on his 60th birthday . Herzberg 1993 (bibliothemata 10).

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Gronemeyer in the catalog of the German National Library