Leopold Hirschberg

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Leopold Hirschberg (born December 6, 1867 in Posen , †  September 28, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German doctor , music writer and bibliophile in Berlin.

Hirschberg initially received his doctorate in medicine and worked as a doctor. He later did his doctorate in the humanities and from 1900 was a lecturer at the Humboldt University, a free adult education center in Berlin. As a book collector he brought together a library of 20,000 volumes, which contained many rare works and magazines, and which he sold to the library of the University of Berlin in 1913 . After the sale of this library, he continued collecting. Large parts of the second book collection, which had been assembled until his death, were auctioned off in 1931 by the Müller & Gräff company in Stuttgart.

His best-known work is “Taschengoedeke. Bibliography of German First Editions ”, which was intended for quick orientation within German literature from around 1650 to the first half of the 19th century. “Translations of foreign literature, philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche , the graphic artists from Chodowiecki to Wilhelm Busch , musicology from Bach to Robert Franz , countless things from the border areas (cultural history, folklore, theology, etc.)” are combined in the work. Although the "Taschengoedeke" (which has no relation whatsoever to Karl Goedekes Grundrisz for the history of German poetry ) received severe criticism from experts, it was made the basis of the microfiche collection "Bibliothek der deutschen Literatur", which was produced by the Saur publishing house in Munich.

Works (selection)

  • The war music of the German classics and romantics , 1911
  • Richard Wagner's Beethoven Breviary , 1918
  • Carl Loewe's instrumental works , 1919
  • Memoirs of a Bibliophile , 1919 (second edition 1922), catalog of the book collection, a supplement to Memoirs of 1920
  • Der Taschen-Goedeke , 1924 (Bibliography of German first editions)
  • Carl Maria von Weber , 1926 f.

Editing

  • Carl Loewe, Sacred Chants , 1905
  • Caroline von Günderode, Melete v. Jon , 1906
  • Friedrich Rückert, gleanings , 1910/1911 (II.)
  • Friedrich Rückert, Political Notebook , 1911
  • Carl Loewes Secular Choirs , 1911 f. (III.)
  • Heinrich Marschner's ballads , 1912 f. (IV.)
  • Music library , 1912 f.
  • Friedrich Rückert, Oriental sagas , 1919
  • ETA Hoffmann, drawings , 1921
  • Friedrich Rückert, March poems , 1922
  • ETA Hoffmann, Collection of Grotesque Figures , 1922
  • Caroline von Günderode, Collected Works , 1922 (3 volumes)
  • ETA Hoffmann, Complete Works , 1922 (14 volumes)
  • Richard Wagner's religious tone poems for choral singing , 1919
  • Georg Friedrich Daumer, Collected poetic works , 1924 f. (IV.)
  • HL Wagner, Collected Works , 1924 f. (V.)
  • "Goethe's legend of the horseshoe by Johann Sebastian Bach 1925

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Roland torture: German poet and Germanist libraries. A critical bibliography of their catalogs. Stuttgart, Eggert, 1975, p. 99.
  2. ^ Leopold Hirschberg. The pocket goedeke. 2nd edition of the new print, Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990, preliminary report, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Hirschberg, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1929
Place of death Berlin