Lorenz Hertel

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Library rotunda of the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, 18th century

Lorenz Hertel (born September 12, 1659 in Hamburg , † November 19, 1737 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German ducal councilor and librarian . From 1716 to 1737 he headed the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.

Life

Lorenz Hertel was born in Hamburg in 1659 as the son of a bookseller. He came to Braunschweig as court master in 1690 and moved to Wolfenbüttel in 1692. Hertel had been in contact with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz by letter from 1691 , who became director of the Herzog August Library that year. In the course of the following years he became Leibniz's helper in scientific and library matters. Hertel was appointed legation secretary under Duke Anton Ulrich and later a legation councilor. Diplomatic missions took him to Stockholm in 1697 , to Copenhagen in 1698 and to Dresden from 1700 to 1701 . He also used his official trips to acquire art on behalf of the ducal. He made art purchases for the Salzdahlumer Galerie at the Düsseldorf court and received a painting by the Swedish court painter David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl as a gift in Stockholm .

Leibniz stayed in Wolfenbüttel only temporarily during his directorate, so that Hertel grew more and more involved in library work. In 1705, Duke Anton Ulrich commissioned Hertel, without Leibniz's knowledge, to manage the library business. From 1706 to 1710 a new library building, the so-called rotunda , was built by the master builder Hermann Korb . Hertel managed the move and the temporary installation of the library in the neighboring hall of the armory . After Leibniz's death in 1716, Hertel succeeded him as director of the library. It was not until 1723 that the move to the library rotunda, which was built in 1710, took place after the interior was finally completed. In 1731 Hertel wrote a report on the library addressed to Duke Ludwig Rudolf , in a sense his library will.

Hertel died in Wolfenbüttel in November 1737 at the age of 78. He bequeathed his private library, comprising 3881 volumes and 79 manuscripts, to the Herzog August Library. A coin catalog created by Hertel is preserved in the manuscript library.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bénédicte Savoy (Ed.): Temple of Art: The Birth of the Public Museum in Germany 1701–1815 , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2015, p. 131.
  2. ^ Otto von Heinemann: The ducal library in Wolfenbüttel. A contribution to the history of German book collections . 2., completely new. Wolfenbüttel 1894 (reprint Amsterdam 1969), pp. 327-335.
  3. ^ Paul Raabe: Hertel, Lorenz . 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. 344 .
  4. ^ Academic libraries of the 18th and 19th centuries , website of the Herzog August Bibliothek (accessed February 10, 2020).
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Leschhorn : The Roman coins , Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-92279-62-7 (wrong), ISBN 3-922279-62-7 , p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Hertel, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ducal councilor and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1737
Place of death Wolfenbüttel