Ignaz Schwarz (antiquarian)

Ignaz Schwarz ( Ignácz Schwartz ; born July 17, 1867 in Neutra , † December 18, 1925 in Vienna ) was an Austrian antiquarian and historian in the fields of medical history , books and the history of the Jews in Vienna .

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Ignaz Schwarz comes from a Jewish merchant family. He completed the grammar school in Neutra by 1886 and then studied twelve semesters of medicine at the University of Vienna . However, he did not complete his studies in Würzburg until 1907 with a dissertation in medical history. While still a student, he wrote historical papers on medicine and pharmacology.

At first on the side, from 1906 he worked fully in the book and art shop Gilhofer und Ranschburg in Vienna. On March 27, 1908, he received power of attorney in this company and on October 1, 1909, he became a co-owner. From 1914 to 1917 he did military service and after his return on June 1, 1917 he left Gilhofer and Ranschburg and founded his own antiquarian bookshop and auction house, which soon enjoyed an excellent reputation in German-speaking countries. He specialized primarily in antiquarian medical literature and works on the city of Vienna. After his death in 1925, this company was continued by his wife Margarete (Grete, née Horner, born September 27, 1875), who also held power of attorney since 1922. Since she was also of Jewish origin, she was deported to Minsk in November 1941 and murdered there. Schwarz's son, Kurt L. Schwarz (1909–1983), also worked in the company from 1927.

The company was named after the annexation of Austria "in 1938 arisiert " and transferred to Johann K. Paulusch (1901-1989), who had worked from 1920 to 1928 for the company. At the end of 1940 he joined forces with Hans von Bourcy and founded the company "Bourcy & Paulusch". After the war, Kurt Schwarz fought for compensation in court.

Auction catalog of the Georg Eckl collection, 1926

Fonts (selection)

In addition to his work as an antiquarian, he published in three areas in particular: the history of medicine and pharmacy, books and the history of the Jews in Vienna. He also wrote under the pseudonym Ignácz Arányi .

• The medical manuscripts of the royal university library in Würzburg . Würzburg 1907 ( digitized version , dissertation).
• The Viennese ghetto. Its houses and its inhabitants (= sources and research on the history of the Jews in German Austria 2). Vienna 1909 ( digitized version ).
• On the history of the Windhag library . Vienna 1912.
• From the first period of Viennese printing (1482–85) . In: Bibliography of the Austrian prints of the XV. and XVI. Century . Volume 1, 1. Vienna 1913, pp. 142–163 ( digitized version ).
• Viennese street scenes in the Rococo age. The Vienna views by Schütz, Ziegler, Janscha 1779–1798. Descriptive Directory . Vienna 1914.
• History of the Jews in Vienna. From its first appearance until 1625 . In: History of the City of Vienna Volume 5, Vienna 1914, pp. 1–64.
• History of the Viennese pharmacy in the Middle Ages (= history of pharmacies and pharmacy in Vienna from the oldest times to the present. Volume 1). Vienna 1917.

He published a directory himself: My literary estate . Vienna [1925].

literature

• M. Ziegert: Dr. Ignaz Schwarz . In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel Volume 93, 1926, No. 64, pp. 6-7.
• E. Lebensaft, Ch. Mache, J. Seidl:  Schwarz (Schwartz), Ignaz (Ignácz). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 438.
• Agnes Schildorferc, Ute Simonlehner, “Aryanizations” in the case of the book and art antiquarian shops “Gilhofer und Ranschburg” and “Dr. Ignaz Schwarz ” . Seminar paper in the seminar "Aryanization" in the Austrian book trade at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna in the winter semester 2001/02 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Hupfer: On the history of the antiquarian book trade in Vienna . Diploma thesis University of Vienna 2003, pp. 242–244 ( digitized version ).