Karl Georg Brandis

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Karl Georg Brandis (born April 10, 1855 in Copenhagen , † July 28, 1931 in Jena ) was a German librarian.

Karl Georg Brandis was the son of the Protestant pastor Christian (Wilhelm Theodor Dietrich) Brandis (1810–?) And the grandson of the doctor and pharmacist Joachim Dietrich Brandis (1762–1846). He studied Classical Philology and History at the University of Bonn with Franz Bücheler and Hermann Usener and was awarded a doctorate on March 13, 1881. phil. PhD . From 1883 to 1890 he worked as a prince educator at the court of Grand Duke Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach in Weimar . He then went to the Royal Library of Berlin as a research assistantwhere he was appointed librarian in 1901.

In 1903 he went to Jena and was appointed senior librarian of the Jena University Library as the successor to the late Karl Konrad Müller . He held this position until his retirement in 1926 (successor Theodor Lockemann ) and worked as an honorary head of the public reading hall in Jena until his death.

In 1904, the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt appointed Brandis a foreign member. On April 1, 1916 he was appointed Privy Councilor .

Fonts (selection)

  • De aspiratione Latina quaestiones selectae . Bonn 1881 (dissertation)
  • Contributions from the Jena University Library on the history of the Reformation century . Jena 1917
  • On the origin and history of the Jena song manuscript . In: magazine for book lovers . New Series, Volume 21 (1929), pp. 108-111

literature

  • Wilhelm Schmitz: Karl Georg Brandis . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. Social and Linguistic Series . Volume 4 (1954/1955), pp. 251-254
  • Barbara Oehme: Jena professors in portrait. Paintings from 425 years of university history (1548 / 58–1983) . Jena 1983, p. 72.
  • Alexandra Habermann / Reiner Klemmt / Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1924–1980 , Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2004, p. 33f.

Web links

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