Lukas Weischner

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Lukas Weischner (* 1550 or 1555 in Erfurt ; † 1609 in Jena , also: Lucas Weyschner or Weschener ) was a German bookbinder and librarian .

Life

Lukas Weischner was born in Erfurt in 1550 or 1555 as the son of the bookbinder Johannes Weischner (around 1515–1589). In 1559 the family settled in Jena, where the father had been appointed university bookbinder at the University of Jena , which had opened a year earlier .

Trained by his father, Lukas Weischner received a position as court bookbinder for Duke Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1528–1589) in 1572 . At the same time, Weischner looked after the Duke's library. In the same year, Duke Julius issued a Liberey order for his initially small library and thus laid the foundation of the later world-famous Wolfenbüttel library, today's Herzog August Library . By buying books on behalf of the Duke in Leipzig , already at that time one of the centers of the German book trade and publishing, Weischner was able to expand the library's holdings considerably.

Weischner maintained his apartment and bookbinding workshop in the nearby Riddagshausen monastery . Weischner married Susanna Horn, daughter of the printer Konrad Horn, in 1575.

In 1576 Lukas Weischner was appointed privileged university bookbinder at the University of Helmstedt , which was founded in October of the same year by Duke Julius. The early books, published in Helmstedt itself and taken up in the Helmstedt University Library , were bound in Weischner's workshop.

In 1579 Lukas Weischner returned to Jena at the request of his father, where he had been in charge of the university library from 1563 or 1567 . After his father's death or as early as 1588, Lukas took over the office of university bookbinder and librarian at the Jena University Library , which he held until his death in 1609.

Services

Lukas Weischner is one of the most important Renaissance bookbinders in the German-speaking area today . As early as the 1570s, he used the technique of press gilding to gild book covers instead of the method of hand gilding that had been common up until then. Examples of the binding art from Lukas Weischner's workshop can be found in the holdings of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar , the Leipzig University Library , the Würzburg University Library , the Gotha Research Library , the Darmstadt University and State Library and the Coburg State Library .

In 2010, the Duchess Anna Amalia Library bought the tenth volume of Luther's 1597 sermons in a binding by Lukas Weischner, edited as in- house postil , at auction for € 22,000 . The work comes from the personal possession of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I of Saxe-Weimar (1562–1602).

literature

  • 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. 730 .
  • Matthias Hageböck, Katja Lorenz: New acquisition for the Duchess Anna Amalia Library: a princely binding from the workshop of Johannes and Lukas Weischner . In: Binding research - information sheet of the working group for the collection, indexing and preservation of historical book bindings , issue 28, April 2011, pp. 60–69. PDF
  • Helmar Härtel : Precious bindings by Lukas Weischner, the librarian and bookbinder in the service of Duke Julius of Braunschweig and Lüneburg. In: Binding research - information sheet of the working group for the collection, indexing and preservation of historical book bindings , issue 3, October 1998, p. 48.
  • Hellmuth Helwig: Jena bookbinder of the 16th century . In: Collection of Library Studies, Volume 46, 1937, pp. 225–241.
  • Hellmuth Helwig: Lukas Weischner and his father Johannes Weischner as bookbinders and librarians at the Jena University Library. In: Archives for bookbinding . Year 36, Halle 1936, pp. 25–28, 36–37.
  • Hermann Herbst : The Brunswick court bookbinder Lucas Weischner. A contribution to the history of the German Renaissance binding. In: Jahrbuch der Einbandkunst, Verlag für Einbandkunst . Volume 1, Leipzig 1927. pp. 87–111.
  • Robert Naumann (Hrsg.): Serapeum - magazine for library science, manuscript studies and older literature. Volume 4, Verlag T. O. Weigel, Leipzig 1843, p. 84.
  • Angelika Pabel: Prince's present and spoils of war: a cover from the Weischner workshop in the Würzburg University Library . In: Binding research - information sheet of the working group for the recording, indexing and preservation of historical book bindings , issue 29, October 2011, pp. 62–66.
  • Angelika Pabel: A work by Lukas Weischner - Plantin's Polyglot Bible in the Würzburg University Library . - In: Binding research - information sheet of the working group for the recording, indexing and preservation of historical book bindings , issue 5, October 1999, pp. 32–37.

Web links

Commons : Lukas Weischner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Naumann
  2. ↑ Nikolaus Großkurt: Epithalamion - wedding poem to Lukas Weischner from Jena, Buchbinder u. Library manager in Wolfenbüttel, u. Susanna, daughter of the printer Konrad Horn . Wolfenbüttel 1575.
  3. ↑ a b Literature by and about Johannes Weischner in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ^ Angelika Pabel: Conference report of the 5th annual conference of the working group for the collection and indexing of historical book bindings (AEB) . Münster, September 28-30, 2000.
  5. ^ Matthias Hageböck: Bindings by Lukas Weischner from the time after 1579 in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Weimar . In: Binding research - information sheet of the working group for the collection, indexing and preservation of historical book bindings , issue 12, April 2003, p. 48.
  6. ^ Sylvie Jacottet: Bindings Braunschweiger Buchbinder of the 16th century in the University Library Leipzig . In: Binding research - information sheet of the working group for the recording, indexing and preservation of historical book bindings , issue 17, October 2005, p. 46.
  7. ↑ Angelika Pabel: A work by Lukas Weischner - Plantin's polyglot Bible in the Würzburg university library . In: Binding research - information sheet of the working group for the collection, indexing and preservation of historical book bindings , issue 5, October 1999, p. 32.
  8. ↑ Angelika Pabel: Prince's present and spoils of war: A cover from the Weischner workshop in the Würzburg University Library . In: Binding research - information sheet of the working group for the collection, indexing and preservation of historical book bindings , issue 29, October 2011, pp. 62–66.
  9. ^ From the Golden Bull to the Ernst Ludwig Press: bindings from seven centuries in the collections of the University and State Library in Darmstadt; Handout for the exhibition; 20th annual conference from October 8 to 10, 2015 in the Hessian University and State Library in Darmstadt
  10. ↑ Lord, keep me at your word: Dynasty and denomination on Ernestine princely bindings: Handout for the exhibition: 21st AEB annual conference from October 27th to 29th, 2016 in the Coburg State Library
  11. ^ Matthias Hageböck, Katja Lorenz: Valuable purchase from the Duchess Anna Amalia Library , Klassik Stiftung Weimar November 11, 2010, accessed on August 21, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Weischner, Lukas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weischner, Lucas; Weyschner, Lucas; Weschener, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookbinder and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH 1550 or 1555
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH 1609
Place of death Jena