Ludwig Borngässer

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Ludwig Borngässer (born April 5, 1907 in Darmstadt , † April 17, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician and librarian .

Life

Ludwig Georg Borngässer was born in 1907 in Darmstadt as the son of the music teacher and church musician Wilhelm Borngässer (1879–1963) and his wife Elisabeth Stöppler. He attended the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium and then studied mathematics at the TH Darmstadt . He did his doctorate in 1933 under Jakob Horn and Alwin Walther as Dr.-Ing. The title of his dissertation was "About hypergeometric functions of two variables". As early as 1932 he had begun library training at the Hessian State and University Library in Darmstadt. In August 1937, the study assessor got a permanent job as a librarian. After the Second World War, Borngässer supported Hans Rasp, who came to Darmstadt in 1946, in setting up the Hessian State Library, which was merged with the university library of the TH Darmstadt in July 1948 by decree of the Ministry of Culture.

In 1950 he received the title of library director. Ludwig Borngässer was responsible for the structural reconstruction of the library and for the music department. In this responsibility, he was in charge of the new carillon in Darmstadt Castle, which was restored in December 1951 after a fundraising campaign by the Darmstadt population.

In 1958 Borngässer went to the Technical University of Berlin as head of the university library . After two and a half years, however, he returned to Darmstadt in 1960. After Hans Rasp retired in 1961, Ludwig Borngässer became his successor. Already in 1963 he moved to the much larger State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin. He headed this until his retirement in 1972.

Borngässer was a close friend of the German-American scientist and artist Hans Elias , who was also from Darmstadt, was born in Darmstadt the same year as Borngässer and had also studied mathematics at the TH Darmstadt . It is thanks to this friendship that the estate of Hans Elias came into the possession of the Berlin State Library as a gift . The only remaining work of art by Hans Elias, Prometheus, hangs in a light shaft next to the north staircase to the east foyer of the Scharoun building of the State Library .

Borngässer was a long time member of the library committee of the German Research Foundation and of the advisory board of the German library. Ludwig Borngässer died in April 1994 in Berlin at the age of 87.

Publications

  • 1933: "About hypergeometric functions of two variables", Darmstadt.

literature

  • Kurt Wolfgang Drozd: Ludwig Borngässer on his 80th birthday. - In: Mitteilungen der Staatsbibliothek Berlin (Prussian Cultural Heritage) New Series 1. 1992, pp. 63–64. Address on the occasion of the birthday reception of the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation on April 14, 1992.
  • Richard Landmeyer 1994: Ludwig Borngässer 1907–1994 (obituary), in: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, 41 (1994), pp. 459–461.
  • University and State Library Darmstadt (Ed.): Neue Mitte (n). The library buildings of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Baron: THE PROMETHEUS SCULPTURE BY HANS ELIAS IN THE STATE LIBRARY OF BERLIN , in: Library magazine . Messages from the Berlin and Munich State Libraries, Issue 1/2011, pp. 35–38
personal data
SURNAME Borngässer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1994
Place of death Berlin