Kaspar Adam Stenger

Kaspar Adam Stenger , also Caspar Adam Stenger (* 1649 ; † January 12, 1690 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German ducal councilor and librarian . From 1685 to 1690 he headed the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.

Life

Kaspar Adam Stenger was born in 1649, immediately after the end of the Thirty Years' War . He was the son of the Erfurt preacher Nicolaus Stenger (1609–1690), one of his older brothers was the Protestant theologian Johann Melchior Stenger (1638–1710). Stenger worked at the Wolfenbütteler Hof as the secret chamber secretary of the jointly ruling dukes Rudolf August and Anton Ulrich .

In 1685 he was appointed librarian at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. Stenger was the third librarian after the eponymous founder, Duke August . Numerous important and monumental works were acquired under his direction, including the Theatrum Sabaudiae, Italiae, Belgii et regii et foederati , as well as books from the collections of the historian Charles Ancillon and the diplomat Joachim de Wicquefort (1600–1670). Stenger Herzog Anton Ulrich was able to purchase the from the Alsatian Weissenburg Abbey originating Weißenburger manuscripts move that arrived after eleven years of negotiations shortly after Stenger's death in Wolfenbüttel. These were 104 valuable medieval manuscripts that were acquired for 1000 thalers. His successor Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz found it when he was appointed on January 14, 1691. In the years 1687/88 Stenger worked on the continuation of the Wolfenbüttel bookwheel catalog .

Stenger died in January 1690 at the age of 40 in Wolfenbüttel and was buried in the Brunswick Cathedral , of which he was canon .

literature

Otto von Heinemann : The ducal library to Wolfenbüttel. A contribution to the history of German book collections . 2., completely new. Wolfenbüttel 1894 (Reprint Amsterdam 1969), pp. 111–112. ( Digitized version ).
Wolfgang Milde : Stenger, Kaspar (also Caspar) Adam . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 676-677 .
Robert Naumann (Ed.): Serapeum . Journal for library studies, manuscript studies and older literature , Volume 3, Leipzig 1842, p. 215.
Günter Scheel : Leibniz 'relationship to the Bibliotheca Augusta in Wolfenbüttel (1678-1716) . In: Joseph König (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch , Volume 54, Braunschweig 1973, pp. 172–199. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

↑ Udo Sträter : Philipp Jakob Spener and the "Stengersche Streit" . In: Martin Brecht (ed.): Pietism and modern times. A yearbook on the history of modern Protestantism , Volume 18, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, p. 53.
↑ Udo Sträter: Philipp Jakob Spener and the "Stengersche Streit" . In: Martin Brecht (ed.): Pietism and modern times. A yearbook on the history of modern Protestantism , Volume 18, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, p. 41.
^ Günter Scheel: Leibniz 'Relationship to the Bibliotheca Augusta in Wolfenbüttel (1678-1716) . In: Joseph König (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch , Volume 54, Braunschweig 1973, p. 175.

personal data
SURNAME	Stenger, Kaspar Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stenger, Caspar Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	1649
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1690
Place of death	Wolfenbüttel

[1] Udo Sträter : Philipp Jakob Spener and the "Stengersche Streit" . In: Martin Brecht (ed.): Pietism and modern times. A yearbook on the history of modern Protestantism , Volume 18, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, p. 53.

[2] Udo Sträter: Philipp Jakob Spener and the "Stengersche Streit" . In: Martin Brecht (ed.): Pietism and modern times. A yearbook on the history of modern Protestantism , Volume 18, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, p. 41.

[3] Günter Scheel: Leibniz 'Relationship to the Bibliotheca Augusta in Wolfenbüttel (1678-1716) . In: Joseph König (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch , Volume 54, Braunschweig 1973, p. 175.