Karl Löffler (Librarian)

Karl Löffler (born January 7, 1875 in Stuttgart ; † December 9, 1935 there ) was a German librarian and manuscript specialist .

life and work

Löffler's father was the surveying inspector Gottlob Löffler. Karl Löffler attended the Latin School in Blaubeuren and the Evangelical Seminary in Blaubeuren , after which he studied in Tübingen, Geneva, Poitiers, Paris, London and Stuttgart. In 1905 he received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Tübingen with his dissertation Das Passive bei Otfrid and in Heliand, especially in relation to the Latin sources . From 1900 to 1908 Löffler worked in higher education, in 1908 he became a librarian at the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart, in 1912 he received the title of professor and in 1920 he was promoted to senior librarian.

Karl Löffler emerged with publications on manuscript studies and librarianship , of which his introduction to catalog studies , which appeared in 1935 shortly before Löffler's death, had a lasting effect. Due to the “recognition (...) that his last work had found among specialists and library users at home and abroad”, a newly edited second edition was published in 1956, the editor of which Norbert Fischer praised Löffler's art, “an apparently so brittle one and to present factual topics such as cataloging in an extremely lively, easily understandable, and sometimes downright humorous way ”and therefore only made necessary updates, but no major changes, to Löffler's text. This work also formed the basis for a completely revised edition by Walther Umstätter and Roland Wagner-Döbler that appeared under the same title in 2005 . Löffler was one of the founders of the lexicon of the entire book industry .

Publications (selection)

• Columella : De re rustica . trans. by Heinrich Oesterreicher, ed. Karl Loeffler. Litterar. Association in Stuttgart, Tübingen 1914 ( digitized ).
• The manuscripts of the Weingarten monastery (= Central Journal for Libraries . Supplement 41). Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1912 ( digitized version ). Reprint: Kraus, Nendeln 1968.
• The manuscripts of the Zwiefalten Monastery . Winkler, Linz a. Danube 1931 ( digitized version )
• History of the Württemberg State Library (= Central Journal for Libraries . Supplement 50). Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1923.
• Romanesque decorative letters and their predecessors . Matthaes, Stuttgart 1927.
• Swabian book illumination in the Romanesque period . Filser, Augsburg 1928.
• Introduction to handwriting . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1929 ( digitized version )
  • [2. Ed.], Revised. by Wolfgang Milde (= Library of the Book Industry, Vol. 11). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1997. ISBN 3-7772-9723-2 .
• Introduction to cataloging . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1935.
  • 2nd ed., Revised. by Norbert Fischer. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1956 ( digitized version )
  • 3rd ed., Completely revised. by Walther Umstätter and Roland Wagner-Döbler. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-7772-0506-0
• as ed. with Joachim Kirchner : Lexicon of the entire book system. 3 volumes, KW Hiersemann, Leipzig 1935–1937.

literature

• Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 (= Journal for Libraries and Bibliography . Special Issue 42). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , pp. 199-200.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Preface by Norbert Fischer to the 2nd edition of the "Introduction to Cataloging", Stuttgart 1956 ( digitized version ( memento of the original dated August 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check Original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ). 

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Löffler  - Sources and full texts

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