Johann Carl Eduard Buschmann
Johann Carl Eduard Buschmann (born February 14, 1805 in Magdeburg , † April 21, 1880 in Berlin ) was a German linguist, librarian and private secretary.
His research was mainly focused on the Northwest and Central American languages and the dialects of Malaysia and Polynesia . Buschmann worked as a librarian at the Royal Library in Berlin. From the end of the 1820s he was also the private secretary of the brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt . Buschmann supported Alexander von Humboldt in the development of his main work Kosmos - Draft of a physical description of the world (5 volumes 1845–1862) and created the register of the cosmos , which appeared in 1862, three years after Humboldt's death, as the fifth volume. He also supported Humboldt in the preparation of the third edition of Views of Nature (1849) and in the publication of the Kleiner Schriften (1853). Buschmann received numerous manuscripts from Humboldt during his lifetime. In addition, he bequeathed box 10 of his collection of materials, the so-called Collektaneen to the cosmos, in his will . Buschmann kept the manuscripts together with around 1,000 letters and notices that Humboldt sent to him until his death. His Humboldt collection came to the library of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin at the beginning of the 1880s and in 1886 to the Royal Library. Today, Buschmann's Humboldt Collection, along with other documents from Humboldt's estate and the letters from the correspondence between Humboldt and Heinrich Berghaus, is in the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow.
References
literature
- Erdmann, Dominik: Who writes who stays! Notes on Eduard Buschmann and a newly acquired personal copy from his estate. In: Communications from the State Libraries in Berlin and Munich 13/38 (2018) pp. 44–48.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography at the University of Magdeburg
- ↑ Petra Werner: Heaven and Earth. Alexander von Humboldt and his cosmos. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-05-004025-4 , p. 171.
- ↑ Dominik Erdmann and Jutta Weber: Nachlassgeschichten - Comments on Humboldt's papers in the Berlin State Library and the Biblioteka Jagiellońska Krakau. In: Alexander von Humboldt on the web. 16/1 (2015) pp. 58-77.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buschmann, Johann Carl Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist, librarian and private secretary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1880 |
| Place of death | Berlin |