Jürgen Warmbrunn
Jürgen Warmbrunn (* 1962 in Münster , Westphalia) is a German historian with a focus on Eastern Central Europe .
Education and professional career
Jürgen Warmbrunn studied Slavic Studies , Eastern European History, English and Finnish Language and Literature in Münster , Prague and Helsinki . He received his doctorate in Münster in 1992. From 1993 to 1995 he completed training for the higher service at academic libraries in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Konstanz and Cologne . From 1995 to 1999 he was head of acquisitions and subject librarian for linguistics and literature, art and music at the university library of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder. Since 1999 he has been head of the research library of the Herder Institute in Marburg, where he has been deputy director and board member since 2005.
Warmbrunn's areas of work include library history, especially Eastern Central Europe, the Czech literary and intellectual history of the 19th and 20th centuries, Russian academic and cultural life between the two world wars in Germany and Czechoslovakia, and the life and work of Robert William Seton-Watson .
Committees and memberships (selection)
- 2002: Chairman of the Working Group of Libraries and Documentation Centers for East, East Central and Southeast European Studies
- 2004–2012: Chairman of the Working Group of Special Libraries / Section 5 in the DBV
- 2009: Secretary of the International Association of Bibliotheca Baltica
- 2007-2013: Member of the International Advisory Board of the magazine "Solanus: international journal for the study of the printed and written word in Russia and East-Central Europe"
- 2018: Member of the editorial board of the Czech library magazines "Knihovna: knihovnická revue" and "Knihovna plus"
- 2018: Member of the Advisory Board of the American library science journal "Slavic & East European Information Resources"
Fonts (selection)
monograph
- English lexical borrowings in the vocabulary of contemporary Czech language. Lit Verlag, Münster [u. a.] 1994, ISBN 978-3-89473-753-5 .
Editorships
- Winfried Irgang: Silesia in the Middle Ages: settlement - church - documents; selected essays. Edited by Norbert Kersken and Jürgen Warmbrunn, Marburg 2007
- Cooperation versus self-profile? : 31st working and advanced training conference of the ASpB eV, Section 5 in the German Library Association, September 25-28, 2007 at the Technical University of Berlin, edited by Ursula Flitner, Jadwiga Warmbrunn and Jürgen Warmbrunn. Karlsruhe 2008.
- Vychod k Baltijskomu morju: karty i drugie informacionnye resursy Baltijskogo morja i pribreznych territorij : IX Mezdunarodnyj Simpozium [Biblioteka Baltika]; materialy simpoziuma, 23–24 October 2008. Saint Petersburg 2010
- The power of digital disorder : 32nd work and training conference of the ASpB eV, Section 5 in the German Library Association, September 22nd to 25th, 2009 in the University of Karlsruhe. Edited by Jadwiga Warmbrunn and Jürgen Warmbrunn. Karlsruhe 2011.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Warmbrunn, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian with a focus on East Central Europe |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munster , Westphalia |