Johannes Hofmann (Librarian)

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Gustav Julius Johannes Hofmann (born October 13, 1888 in Dresden ; † April 4, 1954 ) was a German librarian and head of the Leipzig City Library .

Hofmann was the son of the businessman Carl Hofmann and his wife Martha, geb. Comb setter. He attended the Kreuzgymnasium until 1908 and studied history and German in Freiburg i. Br., Geneva, Berlin and Leipzig. At the University of Leipzig , he was in 1913 for Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1914 he was a volunteer at the Leipzig University Library . After participating in the First World War and being seriously wounded, he began working as a laborer at the Leipzig City Library in 1915. From 1916 he was the city librarian and from 1925 to 1945 he headed the city library and the council archive in Leipzig. He modernized the library and headed the cover cataloging committee. In the Nazi state he was one of the partisans and was proud to keep the library running despite the war. He was released in the summer of 1945.

Since 1912 he was married to Johanna Hempel, daughter of the factory owner August Hempel from Plauen. The couple had a son.

Publications

  • The first German writers 'organization and the writers' movement , Verlag K. Scholtze, 1921
  • The Leipzig library and its treasures. Festschrift for the 250th anniversary , Leipzig 1927
  • From the first German writers' union in 1842 to the Reichsschrifttumskammer in National Socialist Germany , in: Der Deutschen Schriftsteller, December 1937
  • Precious book covers of the Leipzig City Library and their cataloging / for the Gutenberg year, on behalf of the Lord Mayor of Leipzig , ed. by Johannes Hofmann, Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1940

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Dresden II, No. 2873/1888
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian in Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1954