Jens Ahlers

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Jens Ahlers (2013)

Jens Ahlers (born February 8, 1953 in Rendsburg ) is a German historian , English scholar and librarian . From 2005 to 2019 he was director of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library .

Life

After graduating from the Herderschule Rendsburg, Ahlers studied history , English and general linguistics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 1976 . After the state examination in 1985 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

He completed his legal clerkship from 1986 to 1988 at the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen and the University of Applied Sciences for Library and Documentation . At the University of Cologne he stayed at the chair for library science for another year . In 1989 he went to the Schleswig-Holstein State Central Library in Flensburg for 16 years. In 2005 he was appointed director of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library in Kiel . He retired on May 9, 2019.

Publications

  • The Melanchthon prints of the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen . Göttingen 1987. GoogleBooks
  • The Guelphs and the English Kings 1165–1235 . Lax Verlag, Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 978-3-7848-3502-0 . GoogleBooks
  • with Gerhard Kraack: The Schleswig-Holstein State Central Library and its historical book holdings . State Central Library Schleswig-Holstein, Flensburg 1993. GoogleBooks

Catalogs

  • with Gerhard Kraack: book illustration from five centuries. An exhibition in the Schleswig-Holstein State Central Library from May 17 to June 23, 1991 on the occasion of the 425th anniversary of the Old High School in Flensburg . State Central Library Schleswig-Holstein, Flensburg 1991. GoogleBooks
  • Landgrave Carl von Hessen 1744-1836, governor in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. An exhibition in the Schleswig-Holstein State Archives , 1996. GoogleBooks
  • with Jan Schlürmann : New beginnings and civil war. Schleswig-Holstein 1848-1851 , vol. 2.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The Guelphs and the English Kings 1165–1235
personal data
SURNAME Ahlers, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, English scholar and librarian; Director of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg