Joseph German

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Joseph Deutsch (born January 4, 1885 in Rath-Vennickel (1886: Traar ), † March 29, 1966 in Heidelberg ) was a German librarian and from 1927 to 1952 head of the university libraries in Greifswald , Breslau and Heidelberg .

Life

German studied history, German literature and geography at the universities of Marburg, Munich, Berlin and Bonn, where he received his doctorate in 1909. In 1912 he passed the specialist examination as a librarian and in 1915 became a library assistant at the University Library of Göttingen . Two years later he was librarian at the University Library in Kiel and in 1921 deputy director of this library. In 1924 he was appointed first library councilor.

In 1927, Deutsch went to Greifswald University Library as director, where he also became a member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania and chairman of the Rügisch-Pomeranian History Association . From 1932 to 1945 he was director of the State and University Library in Wroclaw. After the end of the war, he was at the University Library of Münster in 1946 , before he was from November 1, 1947 to 1952, as the successor to the deceased acting head Hermann Finke, leading library director of the Heidelberg University Library. His merits lay in the re-establishment of this institution after the Second World War .

Deutschs wife was called Elisabeth, the couple had a daughter Irmgard and married Guber.

Works (selection)

  • The library of Duke Philip I of Pomerania . Greifswald, Bamberg 1931.
  • The manuscripts of the department for Low German literature at the University Library of Greifswald. Leipzig 1926.
  • Kilian Leib , Prior of Rebdorf. A picture of life from the age of the German Reformation. (= Reformation history studies and texts; 16/16). Aschendorff, Münster 1910 (dissertation, Internet Archive ).
editor
  • New Heidelberg Yearbooks (since 1950).

literature

  • A. Habermann: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1989. Frankfurt am Main 1985. pp. 56f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German, Joseph
personal data
SURNAME German, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Rath-Vennickel
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1966
Place of death Heidelberg