Karl Philipp Christian Schönemann

Karl Philipp Christian Schönemann (born January 17, 1801 in Göttingen ; † September 8, 1855 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German teacher, librarian and numismatist . From 1830 to 1854 he was the director of the Ducal Library in Wolfenbüttel, today's Herzog August Library .

Life

Karl Philipp Christian Schönemann was born as the son of the Göttingen professor Carl Traugott Gottlob Schönemann (1765–1802) and his wife Elisabeth Henriette (1777–1859), née Leiste. After the early death of the father, the mother moved to Wolfenbüttel, where her father Christian Leiste (1738–1815) was the principal of the large school . Schönemann grew up here and received his schooling first from his grandfather and then from his mother's brother. In 1819 he took a study of classical philology and theology at the University of Göttingen , where he u. a. with Georg Ludolf Dissen andKarl Otfried Müller studied and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1823 . He then went to Wolfenbüttel as a grammar school teacher and in 1829 moved to the Julianum grammar school in Helmstedt as vice-principal . In 1830 he was finally appointed to the ducal library in Wolfenbüttel. As head of the library, he managed to increase its meager acquisition budget by selling duplicates . He wrote u. a. Works on the history of the library and numismatics . Since 1844 he suffered from an eye disease that made him increasingly blind. He retired in 1854 and died of cholera the following year .

Schönemann was married twice: in 1830 he married Henriette Pauline Charlotte Leiste (1808–1845), daughter of the preacher Christian Ludwig Leiste , who was largely related to him, and granddaughter of the theologian Johann August Nösselt . In 1851 he married Julie Römer (1799– around 1877), daughter of the consistorial councilor Jacob Ludwig Römer (1770–1855), who, like her father, has occasionally emerged poetically. A daughter and two sons of his children survived, the eldest of whom, Anton Wilhelm Otto Schönemann (1833–1855), also fell victim to cholera a few days after him.

Works (selection)

• In memory of Georg Burckhard Lauterbach’s . In: Serapeum 3 (1842), pp. 213-223 ( digitized version ).
• Guy de Warwick. Description and samples of a still unknown old French manuscript from the ducal library in Wolfenbüttel . In: Serapeum 3 (1842), pp. 353-365 ( digitized version), p. 369-376 ( digitized version ).
• Outlines for the history and description of the Wolfenbüttler library . In: Serapeum 4 (1843), p. 81–95 ( digitized version ), p. 97–106 ( digitized version ), p. 193–204 ( digitized version), p. 209–218 ( digitized version ), Serapeum 5 (1844), Pp. 209–224 ( digitized version), p. 225–236 ( digitized version ) [ these are all sequels, the sequel last announced on p. 236 no longer appeared ].
• One hundred curiosities from the ducal library in Wolfenbüttel (3 vols.). Culemann, Hannover 1849-1852 ( digital copies: Volume 1 , Volume 2/3 ).
• On patriotic coinage from the twelfth to fifteenth century or the basics of bracteature and description of almost five hundred old Braunschweig, Helmstedt, Halberstädt, Reinstein, Goslar, Anhalt and other hollow pennies, as well as Westphalian and Hessian two-sided pennies . Wolfenbüttel 1852 ( digitized version ).
• For the history and description of the ducal library in Wolfenbüttel . In: Serapeum 18 (1857), pp. 65–80 ( digitized version ), p. 81–91 ( digitized version), p. 97–108 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Werner Arnold: Schönemann, Karl Philipp Christian . In: Lexicon on the past and present of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel. Edited by Georg Ruppelt and Sabine Solf. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1992 (= Lexica of European Libraries, Vol. 1), ISBN 3-447-03233-2 , pp. 143f.
• Otto von Heinemann : The ducal library to Wolfenbüttel. A contribution to the history of German book collections . 2., completely new. Aufl. Wolfenbüttel 1894 (Reprint Amsterdam 1969), pp. 219-232 ( digitized version ).
• Wolfgang Milde : Schönemann, Karl Philipp Christian, Dr. In: Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon . [Vol. 1]: 19th and 20th centuries. Edited by Horst-Rüdiger Jarck and Günter Scheel . Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 536f.
• Paul Raabe : Karl Philipp Schönemann and Heinrich Wilhelm Hahn. On the idea of ​​a German national library in Wolfenbüttel. In: Aratro corona messoria. Contributions to European knowledge transmission . Festgabe for Günther Pflug on April 20, 1988. Ed. By Bernhard Adams u. a. Bouvier, Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-416-02150-9 , pp. 35-45.
• Anton Ruland: commemorative mark to Dr. Carl Phil. Chr. Schönemann and his son Dr. Otto Schönemann . In: Serapeum 17 (1856), pp. 71-78 ( digitized version ) .
• Ludwig Schweiger: In memory of Dr. Carl Philipp Christian Schönemann, Herzogl. Librarian in Wolfenbüttel, and his son, Dr. Anton Wilhelm Otto Schönemann . In: Serapeum 17 (1856), pp. 113-128 ( digitized version ) .
• Paul Zimmermann :  Schönemann, Karl Phil. Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 291-293.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Philipp Christian Schönemann in the catalog of the German National Library