Joseph Förstemann

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Joseph Heinrich Gustav Ernst Förstemann (born February 12, 1841 in Halle (Saale) , † December 19, 1900 in Leipzig ) was a German librarian and archivist .

Life

Joseph Förstemann was born the son of the librarian and historian Karl Eduard Förstemann . He studied classical philology at the University of Halle and received his doctorate there in 1863 with the dissertation De dialecto Hesiodea for Dr. phil. Three years later he passed the examination for the higher education authority. As early as 1860 to 1861 he went to Rome on behalf of Johann Heinrich Friedrich Karl Witte to compare Dante manuscripts for him. From 1864 to 1866 Förstemann was a private tutor with a family in Aachen .

In May 1866, with the support of senior librarian Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf , who was friends with the Förstemann family, he was given a position as an assistant at the Leipzig University Library . In 1870 he became curator, 1875 librarian and in 1881 second senior librarian at the Leipzig University Library. In 1872 he was temporarily given the management of the Pölitz Library, a special collection in the Leipzig City Library . From 1878 to 1891 he was also archivist at the Royal Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Förstemann did a great job of building and equipping the Leipzig University Library (1887–1891). He organized the relocation of the book inventory in 20 working days; he only needed eight weeks to set up the around 500,000 inventory units. When the new building opened a few months later, he was allowed to personally guide the Saxon King Albert through the building. As early as 1888, at the instigation of Friedrich Zarncke, he received the title of royal Saxon court counselor , and on the day the library was reopened, Förstemann was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Albrecht Order .

Förstemann re-edited the Novae constitutiones audientiae contradictarum in curia Romana promulgatae ad 1375, rediscovered by him in the holdings of the Leipzig University Library and listed as a loss, and published it in 1897. His main work, it appeared in 1894, was the processing of the third volume of the document book of the city of Leipzig, to which a place and person index for all three volumes was attached. Another important work of his was the new edition of the Erasmus letters from the holdings of the Leipzig University Library, which he did not live to see published in 1904. They appeared again as a reprint in 1968. His last work was a biography of Felix König (Rex), the librarian of Duke Albrecht of Prussia .

Joseph Förstemann died on December 19, 1900, at the age of 59, in Leipzig of a heart condition.

Publications (selection)

  • De dialecto Hesiodea. Dissertation , Halle 1863 ( digitized version ).
  • Document book of the city of Leipzig. Volume 3, as editor , Leipzig 1894.
  • Fragment from a city book of the old town of Bernburg. 1401-1420. Hall 1897.
  • Novae constitutiones audientiae contradictarum in curia Romana promulgatae a. D. 1375. Leipzig 1897.
  • Felix König (Rex) Polyphemus, first librarian to Duke Albrecht of Prussia. Leipzig 1899. ( digitized ).
  • (as editor) Letters to Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Leipzig 1904 ( digitized version ).

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SURNAME Förstemann, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Förstemann, Joseph Heinrich Gustav Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1900
Place of death Leipzig