Otmar Seemann

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Otmar Seemann (born September 3, 1946 in Vienna ) is an Austrian dentist and bibliographer.

biography

Seemann has the most comprehensive collection of old encyclopedias with a focus on encyclopedias from German-speaking countries, especially German conversational encyclopedias from the 19th century. He is considered a specialist in the field of subject lexicography.

Seemann published and wrote accompanying introductions for the microfiche editions that he also edited, for example for the Austrian National Encyclopedia by Franz Gräffer and Johann Jakob Czikann. In 2001 he sold his 12,000-volume collection to a private library abroad.

Other research areas of Otmar Seemann are publishing in Vienna in the 18th and 19th centuries, the creation of a bibliography of people living in Austria from 1750 to 1850 as well as articles on books, bibliography and dental topics.

Publications (selection)

  • Bibliotheca lexicorum : annotated directory of the Otmar Seemann collection; edit by Martin Peche. Based on a complete directory compiled by Otmar Seemann, edited by Hugo Wetscherek. Vienna: Antiquariat Inlibris, 2001.
  • Cumulative addendum to war: MNE. 3rd, improved and increased edition. Krieg, Vienna 1995. [MNE = Mne = no more published]
  • The prints of the ABG dated “1811”. Vienna: Manz, 1995.
  • Large German encyclopedias since the 19th century: Brockhaus - Pierer - Meyer - Herder; bibliographical overview .
  • Overall index "Contemporaries", "The Present", "Our Time". Edited and with an introduction by Otmar Seemann. Munich [u. a.]: Saur, 1995.
  • "... and the desire and urge to work indescribable ...": Johann Georg Krünitz and his economic-technological encyclopedia. Exhibition on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of Johann Georg Krünitz. [Exhibition and catalog: Dagmar Bouziane; Heike Krems; Ruth White. Advice: Otmar Seemann]. Berlin: Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, 1996.
  • Large Austrian encyclopedias and their authors. Exhibition catalog, Vienna 1992.
  • GA Zischka. Bibliographer, Goethe researcher and doctor. 1991.
  • Incomplete dictionaries and encyclopedias. An addendum to war: MNE. In: Karl H. Pressler (Ed.): From the Antiquariat. Volume 8, 1990 (= Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel - Frankfurter Ausgabe. No. 70, August 31, 1990), pp. A 329 - A 334.
  • Longing storms the brooks deep inside. The writer Margarete Seemann (1893–1949). 1989.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See Michael O. Krieg: No more was published. A list of unfinished printed works. On the basis of the former Hofrat Dr. Moriz Grolig, library director of Vienna, edited and supplemented the collected material. 2 volumes. Walter Krieg Verlag, Bad Bocklet / Vienna / Zurich / Florence 1954–1958.
personal data
SURNAME Sailor, Otmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian dentist and bibliographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna