Margrit Beran Krewson

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Margrit Beran Krewson , also Margrit B. Krewson née Margrit Beran (born March 31, 1936 in Hamburg , † November 6, 2014 in Washington, DC ) was an American librarian and German scholar.

Life

Margrit Beran first studied German at the University of Heidelberg and then at George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she obtained an MA. Margrit Beran Krewson worked for thirty years at the Library of Congress in Washington, and from 1980 until her retirement in 1998 as a German-Dutch expert in the European department. She has produced numerous bibliographic publications and was also invited to give lectures at scientific institutions and to lectures at Harvard University .

After her retirement in 1999 she made yet for the purchase of the Waldseemuller map of 1507 by the Library of Congress, and the Carta Marina of 1516. Beran Krewson has numerous exhibitions curated, so in 1996 the treasures from the Saxon State Library in Dresden , last Book treasures from the German National Library in Leipzig in the New York Grolier Club .

Margrit Beran was married to Charles Fleming Krewson III.

Fonts (selection)

  • 300 Years of German Immigration to the United States . Washington: Libr. Of Congress, 1983
  • Berlin, 750 years: a selective bibliography . Washington: Libr. Of Congress, 1986
  • Von Steuben and the German contribution to the American revolution: a selective bibliography . Washington: Libr. Of Congress, 1987
  • The German Collection of the Library of Congress: Structure and Development since 1815 . Washington: Libr. Of Congress, 1988
  • Exhibit catalogs of the German-speaking countries of Europe: 1958 - 1988; a selective bibliography . Washington: Libr. Of Congress, 1990
  • Immigrants from the Germanspeaking countries of Europe: a selective bibliography of reference works . Washington: Libr. Of Congress, 1991
  • Dresden: treasures from the Saxon State Library . Washington: Libr. Of Congress, 1996
  • The Netherlands and Northern Belgium, a selective bibliography of reference works . Washington: Libr. Of Congress, 1989
  • with Hans-Albrecht Koch ; Ute Baudissin-Zinzendorf: The Articulate traveler: Johann Georg Kohl, chronicler of the American continents . Washington: Libr. Of Congress, 1993
  • The German Forty-Eighters in America: results of a search of the holdings of the Library of Congress Computerized Catalog, September 1995 .

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rep. Richard Andrew Gephardt : A Tribute to Margrit Beran Krewson ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at capitolwords, April 12, 1999 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / capitolwords.org
  2. ↑ a b c Parte Margrit Beran Krewson , in: FAZ , November 22, 2014, p. 8
  3. ↑ Obituary, in: The Washington Post , Nov. 16, 2014
  4. ↑ Martin Waldseemüller's 1516 Carta Marina , at the Library of Congress
personal data
SURNAME Krewson, Margrit Beran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krewson, Margrit B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American librarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2014
Place of death Washington, DC