Martin Germann

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Friedrich Martin Rudolf Germann (born August 18, 1942 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss librarian , historian and non-fiction author .

Life

Martin Germann attended schools in Zug and Lucerne . From 1958 to 1962 he was trained as a teacher in the Muristalden seminar in Bern . He practiced this profession for two years before studying history and linguistics at the Universities of Zurich and Basel . He participated in a facsimile edition of the Diplomata Karolinorum and the Catalog des manuscrits datés . Martin Germann did his doctorate on Johann Jakob Thurneysen the Younger, a Basel publisher, printer and bookseller at the end of the 18th century, and passed his doctoral examination in 1971.

Martin Germann initially worked in the central library in Zurich , where he made a name for himself as an expert on incunabula . He later worked in the manuscript collection of the burger library in Bern .

Martin Germann's contributions to the art of printing, especially his finds of unique copies of the oldest Zurich prints (1991) as well as a copy of Gutenberg's 31-line letter of indulgence (1995), were published in the Gutenberg yearbook and in other specialist journals.

Fonts (selection)

Water Church Zurich (1661), etching by Conrad Meyer
The Wasserkirche as the first city ​​library in Zurich ;
Drawing by Franz Hegi , 1845
  • Johann Jakob Thurneysen the Younger, 1754–1803: publisher, printer and bookseller in Basel. A contribution to the history of the Late Enlightenment in Basel and to the history of the penetration of the English and French Enlightenment in the German-speaking area at the end of the 18th century (= Basler Contributions to History , Vol. 128). Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1973.
  • together with Jean-Pierre Bodmer: Cantonal Library Zurich 1835–1915: between the library of the Canons' Monastery of Grossmünster and the Central Library, Zurich Central Library, exhibition, November 12, 1985 to January 10, 1986 , catalog. Central Library, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-299-00006-3 .
  • The Reformed Abbey Library at Großmünster Zurich in the 16th century and the beginnings of modern bibliography. Reconstruction of the book inventory and its origin, the book layout and the library room. With edition of the inventory from 1532/1551 by Conrad Pellikan. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-447-03482-3 .
  • Book cover location: A Zurich calendar for the year 1482. With an overview of the Zurich publishing house and its prints from 1479 to around 1481. In: Gutenberg yearbook. Verlag der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, Vol. 68, Mainz 1993, pp. 66-87 ( doi: 10.5169 / seals-388554 ).
  • New find of a copy of Gutenberg's 31-line letter of indulgence from 1454/1455 (GW 6556) in the Zurich Central Library: report on the find and overview of the state of knowledge of printing history . In: Gutenberg yearbook. Vol. 70, Verlag der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, Mainz 1995, pp. 52–56.
  • Zurich's first print shop (1479–1481), preacher monastery . In: mendicant orders, brotherhoods and beguines in Zurich, urban culture and salvation in the Middle Ages ; ed. by Barbara Helbling u. a. Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2002, pp. 151–157.
  • Spolias from four medieval private libraries in Switzerland: in the libraries of Bern, Sankt Gallen and Zurich, as well as in the Musée historique de la Neuville (Bern). In: Le biblioteche private come paradigma bibliografico , a cura di Fiammetta Sabba, pp. 255–276. Bulzoni, Roma 2008.
  • Hanny Fries (1918–2009) as a book illustrator: The early years (until 1955) . In: Librarium, journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society. Vol. 54 No. 1, 2011, pp. 2-20 ( doi: 10.5169 / seals-388891 ); and The Years since 1955. Vol. 56, No. 2/3, 2013, pp. 63–82.

literature

  • Hans-Jörg Künast: Martin Germann: The Reformed Abbey Library at the Großmünster Zurich in the 16th century and the beginnings of the modern bibliography. Reconstruction of the book inventory and its origin, the book layout and the library room. With edition of the inventory from 1532/1551 by Conrad Pellikan. In: Arbitrium. 16.2 (2009), pp. 129-130 ( doi: 10.1515 / arbi.1998.16.2.129 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Bruckner : The «Catalog des manuscrits datés» in Switzerland . In: Swiss History Journal . 21 (1971), issue 1/2 ( doi: 10.5169 / seals-80657 ).
  2. ^ Samuel Schüpbach-Guggenbühl: Thurneysen, Johann Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ Martin Germann: Arte et Marte: through science and weapons: the founding idea of ​​the Zurich Citizens' Library (1629). Zürcher Taschenbuch for 1981. pp. 25–45.
personal data
SURNAME Germann, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Germann, Friedrich Rudolf Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss librarian, historian and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen