Karl Dziatzko

Karl Dziatzko

Karl Dziatzko (pronunciation (IPA) [dʒiˈatsko] , born January 27, 1842 in Neustadt in Upper Silesia , † January 13, 1903 in Göttingen ) was a German librarian and classical philologist .

From 1859 to 1863 he studied classical philology in Breslau and Bonn , where he was also an assistant at the university library, which was headed by his academic teacher Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl . After receiving his doctorate in 1863 on the prologues of Plautus and Terenz , Dziatzko was initially a teacher at grammar schools in Opole and from 1865 in Lucerne . At the end of April 1871 he became head of the Freiburg University Library for a short time , where he qualified as a professor in Classical Philology in the same year.

After a brief return to the school service in Karlsruhe, he became director of the University Library in Breslau on October 1, 1872 , which he comprehensively reorganized. The rules he created for the new alphabetical card catalog became the model for the Prussian instructions .

From October 1, 1886 until his death, Dziatzko was director of the Göttingen University Library and the first holder of the newly created chair for auxiliary library sciences at the University of Göttingen , which served in particular to train for the higher library service in Prussia.

Dziatzko played a central role, also as an advisor to Friedrich Althoff , in the reform of the academic library system at the end of the 19th century. He played a decisive role in the professionalization of the library profession through his training function in Göttingen and his participation in the formation of a professional association (initially as a section of the philologists' association).

Dziatzko worked scientifically in the field of Gutenberg research, incunabula and ancient books, as well as editor and explainer of the comedies of Terence.

Fonts (selection)

See Alfred Schneider: Bibliography of the publications of Karl Dziatzko . In: Contributions to the theory and practice of books and libraries, Vol. 8. Halle 1904, pp. 1–12.

• De prologis Plautinis et Terentianis quaestiones selectae . Dissertation Bonn 1863.
• Selected comedies by P. Terentius Afer: as an introduction to reading the old Latin comedies . Teubner, Leipzig 1874ff. (many new editions)
• P. Terenti Afri Comoediae . Tauchnitz, 2nd edition Leipzig 1884.
• The centralization of the catalogs of German libraries . In: Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 1, 1884, issue 7, pp. 261–267 ( digitized version )
• For exchanging documents between German universities . In: Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 2, 1885, pp. 231–237 ( digitized version ).
• Instruction for the order of the titles in the alphabetical card catalog of the Royal and University Library in Wroclaw . Asher, Berlin 1886.
• Contributions to the Gutenberg question . Asher, Berlin 1889.
• Gutenberg's earliest printing practice . Asher, Berlin 1890.
• Development and current status of the academic libraries in Germany with special consideration of Prussia . Spirgatis, Leipzig 1893.
• The international mutual relations of the libraries . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , vol. 10 (1893), pp. 457-462 ( digitized version ).
• Investigations into selected chapters of the ancient book industry . Teubner, Leipzig 1900.

literature

• C. Haeberlin: Karl Dziatzko . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde 28th vol. 1905 (1906) pp. 72–97 ( digitized version ).
• Ludwig Denecke :  Dziatzko, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 213 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Günther Pflug : Dziatzko, Karl . In: Lexicon of the entire book system , 2nd edition, Vol. 2 (1989), p. 462.
• Gordon Stevenson: Dziatzko, Karl . In: Robert Wedgeworth (Ed.): World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services . 3rd edition 1993, p. 260.
• Ludger Syré (ed.): Between library and science. Wilhelm Brambach's letters to Karl Dziatzko and other colleagues . Logos Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8325-1889-9 .

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Dziatzko  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Karl Dziatzko in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
August Wilmanns	Director of the Göttingen University Library 1886–1903	Richard Pietschmann