Karin Schneider (Codicologist)

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Karin Schneider (born April 5, 1931 in Dessau ; † October 14, 2019 ) was a German archivist , Germanist , manuscript expert and paleographer .

Life

Karin Schneider was an archivist at the Bavarian State Library . From 1967 until her retirement in 1995 she was involved in cataloging German-language medieval manuscripts. She did her doctorate in 1958 in Friborg in German and historical auxiliary sciences under Wolfgang Stammler . The dissertation was about the Melusine of Thuringia from Ringoltingen .

Her manuscript catalogs for the holdings of German-language medieval manuscripts in Nuremberg, Munich (catalogs for the holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, labeled Cgm, published in seven volumes from 1970 to 2005 by Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden, Cgm 201 to Cgm 5247, after Cgm 1- 200 were started by Erich Petzet as early as 1920 ) and Augsburg A standard work on Gothic scripts in German and a total of over 100 scientific publications come from her.

Nigel F. Palmer praised her as a doyenne of studying medieval German-language manuscripts and compared her with Bernhard Bischoff .

In 2003 she received an honorary doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She was in the Comité de Paléographie latine. In 1985 she received the silver medal bene merenti for working on the edition of unprinted texts from the Middle Ages at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

In addition to the works cited in the individual references, she was involved in the following publications:

  • As editor: Thuringia von Ringoltingen: Melusine, Berlin, E. Schmidt 1958 (texts of the late Middle Ages 9)
  • As editor: Pontus and Sidonia: in the Germanization of an unknown from the 15th century, Berlin: E. Schmidt 1961
  • The Eisenacher Zehnjungfrauenspiel, Berlin: E. Schmidt 1964
  • The "Trojan War" in the late Middle Ages: German Troy novels of the 15th century, Berlin: E. Schmidt 1968
  • A book of lots by Konrad Bollstatter. From Codex Germanicus Monacensis 312 of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Reichert Verlag 1973 (also as a medieval fortune-telling game. Konrad Bollstatters Losbuch in cgm 312 , 1978)
  • Gothic writings in German I. From the late 12th century to around 1300, Reichert Verlag 1987, ISBN 9783882262810
  • Gothic writings in German II. Upper German manuscripts from 1300 to 1350, Reichert Verlag, 2009, ISBN 9783895006036
  • Paleography and manuscript studies for German students. An introduction, Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999, 3rd edition, De Gruyter 2014
  • German medieval manuscripts from Bavarian monastery libraries, Bibliotheksforum Bayern, Volume 9, 1981, p. 51
  • The library of the Katharinenkloster in Nuremberg and the municipal society, in: Bernd Moeller, Hans Patze, Karl Stackmann (eds.), Studies on urban education of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (treatises of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, philological-historical class, 3. Volume 137), Göttingen 1983, pp. 70-82.

literature

  • Obituary in the Bavarian Library Forum, issue 1, 2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information on Karin Schneider
  2. ^ Schneider, The German medieval manuscripts. Description of the book decoration by Heinz Zirnbauer . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1965 (The manuscripts of the Nuremberg City Library; Volume 1)
  3. ^ Schneider: The Latin medieval manuscripts: Part 1. Theological manuscripts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1967, (The manuscripts of the Nuremberg City Library; Volume 2, Part 1)
  4. ^ From The German manuscripts of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München: Cgm 201-350 , Editio altera, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1970, manuscripta mediaevalia , handwriting directory online.
  5. ↑ recataloging the medieval German manuscripts of the Bavarian State Library in Munich - Volume 10 , Bavarian State Library
  6. ^ Schneider, German medieval manuscripts of the Augsburg University Library. The signature group Cod. I.3 and Cod. III.1., Harrassowitz 1988). They include the holdings of the former Princely Oettingen-Wallerstein Library on the Harburg, acquired in 1980 .
  7. ↑ Quoted from Klaus Graf's obituary in Archivalia, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Tailor, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and manuscript expert
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2019