Hugo Hayn

Hugo Hayn (born January 2, 1843 in Breslau , † January 20, 1923 in Dresden ) was a German bibliographer .

Life

Hugo Hayn came from a Silesian family of doctors and lawyers. His father, Dr. Adolph Hayn, was a district judge in Breslau. He spent his childhood on an uncle's estate near Waldenburg . After preparation by a private tutor, he attended grammar schools in Schweidnitz and Breslau and studied in Berlin from 1866, including with Leopold von Ranke , who also gave him permission to use the Royal Library without restriction. According to his own autobiographical notes, he made extensive trips in Europe and America. On his return he began his bibliographic research in the libraries of Leipzig, Dresden, Darmstadt, Stuttgart and Munich, Göttingen, Vienna, Zurich and London. Under the pseudonym N. Hay he published a first collection in 1875 under the title Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica, a directory of all German erotic literature including translations . He has expanded and supplemented this work many times. It appeared in further editions until it had grown to 8 volumes at the beginning of the 20th century. Volume 9, which appeared in 1929, is a supplementary volume edited by Paul Englisch . Alfred Gotendorf , named as the editor, was a patron of Hayn and a promoter of the bibliography. After Hayn had paid for his travels in his younger years with an inheritance that had come to him, he gradually fell into poverty as the income from the sale of his books was insufficient to cover his livelihood. Some of Hayn's letters asking for support (including to Hermann Sudermann and Victor Ottmann ) have been preserved in the German Literature Archive in Marbach and in the Saxon State Library in Dresden . Shortly after he reached the age of 80, he was found dead on a park bench in Dresden.

Cover title to Hugo Hayn's proposal for a reading library

meaning

At a time when strict morals prevailed and everything erotic and sexual was taboo, Hugo Hayn pioneered the research and preservation of the literature dealing with these topics. His bibliographies list many writings that cannot be found in the official book trade directories of Kayser and Heinsius . It was not until the mid-1880s that a paradigm shift took place with the publications of Richard von Krafft-Ebing , Iwan Bloch and Sigmund Freud , in which eroticism and sexuality were recognized as serious research subjects.

Works

• A 'secular song book' from the Meusebach library in Berlin . In: Serapeum . Journal for library studies, manuscript studies and older literature. 31st year (1870), pp. 145–155.
• Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica. Directory of all German erotic literature including translations . Reference book for literary historians, antiquarians and librarians. Edited from reliable sources by H. Nay. Leipzig 1875.
• Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica. List of the entire German erotic literature including the translations , together with details of the foreign originals. Second, thoroughly reworked, greatly increased edition enriched with the addition of the Berlin and Munich German erotic book treasures and provided with antiquarian prices. Modifications made by Hugo Hayn. Unflad, Leipzig 1885.
• Bibliotheca Germanorum gynaecologica et cosmetica. Directory of German sexual and cosmetic writings including the translations and the originals. With special consideration of the older popular medicine and the addition of antiquarian prices, edited by Hugo Hayn. At the same time supplement to the second edition of the Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica. Unflad, Leipzig 1886.
• Bibliotheca erotica et curiosa Monacensis. List of French, Italian, Spanish, English, Dutch and neo-Latin erotica and curiosa, of which no German translations are known . Compiled on the Königl. Court and State Library in Munich. and provided with bibliographical notes and market prices by Hugo Hayn. Harrwitz, Berlin 1889.
• Bibliotheca Germanorum nuptialis. Directory of single prints of German wedding poems and wedding jokes in prose from the middle of the XVI. Century to modern times . Compiled by Hugo Hayn with notes, information on libraries and market prices. Supplement to Goedeke's outline on the history of German literature and Hayn's Bibliotheca Germanorum Erotica . Teubner, Cologne 1890.
• The German riddle literature. Attempt of a bibliographical overview up to modern times . In addition to a directory of German Loos, Tranchir and Complimentir books. In: Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen. 7th year (1890), pp. 516–556 ( online ).
• Bibliography of books with bogus titles . A contribution to the literature of curiosities. In: magazine for book lovers. 3rd year, 1st volume (1899/1900), pp. 84–90.
• Four new curiosity libraries. Bavarian Hiesel. Amazon literature. Collar Trial and Cagliostro. Bibliotheca selecta erotica-curiosa Dresdensis . All compiled for the first time by Hugo Hayn. HW Schmidt, Jena 1905.
• Overview of the literature (mostly published in Germany) on the allegedly committed ritual murders and host sacrilege by Jews . Compiled for the first time by Hugo Hayn. HW Schmidt, Jena 1906.

Editing

• Thesaurus librorum Philippi Pfister, Monacensis. Catalogus bibliothecae selectae . Directory of a selected collection of Bavarica, Monacensia, Judaica, as well as of works from all sciences, whereby Rara and Curiosa, owned by the Royal Bavarian. Government Councilor Philipp-Pfister in Munich. Edited with notes and registers by Hugo Hayn. Schuh, Munich 1888.
• Proposal for a reading library for young women. A bibliographical and erotic curiosum from 1780 . With annotations and a list of joking catalogs (livres imaginaires) edited by Hugo Hayn. Jahnke, Borna-Leipzig 1889.
• Virtuous virgins and boy journeyman time-expellers. A secular song book of the XVII. Century from v. Meusebach's collection in the Berlin public library . Evidence of the sources from which the 201 songs are drawn from Karl Hartwig Gregor Freiherr von Meusebach. († 1847.) Edited by Hugo Hayn as a contribution to the history of German folk song. Teubner, Cologne 1890.

literature

• Monika Bargmann: Hugo Hayn - bibliographer of love . In: Biblos 57 (2008), 2, pp. 15-28.
• Karl Klaus Walther: The man who catalogs love . In: Philobiblon 39 (1995), pp. 218-221. (Also in: Karl Klaus Walther: Das Europa der Bibliographen. From Brunet to Estreicher. De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2019. pp. 100–120.)

Web links

• List of publications with evidence of digital copies
• Monika Bargmann: Hugo Hayn. Digitized.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Klaus Walther: The man who cataloged love . In: Philobiblon 39 (1995), pp. 218-221