Kurt Gassen

Kurt Gassen (* 1892 in Berlin ; † 1981 ) was a German librarian and author.

Kurt Gassen studied German , philosophy and history in Freiburg , Berlin and Greifswald . In 1917 he received his doctorate in Greifswald and then gained his first experience in academic library services in Berlin and Kiel. Then alleys went to Greifswald and in 1937 deputy director of the local university library . Since Gassen had joined the NSDAP in 1940 , he was dismissed from library service in March 1946. In May 1948 he was hired again as a "scientific assistant". In 1951 Gassen went to Berlin and in 1953 was employed as a librarian at the German Academy of Sciences and then at the German State Library .

Fonts (selection)

• The chronology of the novellas of Heinrich von Kleist . Weimar 1920 (diss.).
• Sibylle Schwarz. A Pomeranian poet 1621-1638 . Greifswald 1921.
• Pomeranian literature from the oldest times to the present . Greifswald 1930.
• Contemporary Pomeranian Literature . Greifswald 1932.
• The Beginnings of New Low German Literature in Pomerania 1770-1870 . In: Pommersche Jahrbücher 29 (1935), pp. 157-182.
• Unknown Pomeranian letters from the Greifswald University Library . Greifswald 1940.
• Edited with Michael Landmann : Book of thanks to Georg Simmel. Letters, memories, bibliography . Berlin 1958.

literature

• Renate Herrmann-Winter : Kurt Gassen and the Low German Collection of the University Library Greifswald . In: Baltische Studien NF Vol. 83 (1997), pp. 87-94 (digitized version ) .

Web links

• Literature about Kurt Gassen in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Kurt Gassen in the state bibliography MV