Otto Erich Ebert

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Bookplate by Otto Erich Epstein from 1905, one year before he changed his last name to "Ebert". The bookplate was designed by Hugo Steiner-Prag .

Otto Erich Ebert (born May 19, 1880 in Prague ; † September 3, 1934 there ) was a German librarian.

Life

Ebert was the son of the dentist Heinrich Epstein and his wife Sofie, geb. Cowardly. He attended the German grammar school in Prague and then from 1899 to 1905 studied law, history and historical auxiliary sciences in Prague and Vienna. At the German University in Prague , he was in 1905 for Dr. jur. PhD. In 1906 he converted to Catholicism and renamed himself Ebert. In the same year he began as an intern at the University Library in Vienna , where he was promoted to senior librarian until 1920. From 1915 to 1918 Ebert was in the war for the Austro-Hungarian Army. In 1915 he was awarded the silver medal of the Red Cross with the war decoration for his work as head of the library of the Vienna University Hospital.

After studying leave at the Deutsche Bücherei , Ebert moved there in 1920 and was appointed deputy director in 1921. From 1927 he headed the newly established bibliographic information center. Under the National Socialist rule, he was released in 1933 for "racial" reasons. His leave of absence in August 1933 was followed by his final release on December 31, 1933. In October 1933 he married the widow Hedwig (Hedda) Meisenburg, born in Leipzig. Brückmann. In September 1934 he died of a stroke that struck him while his mother was visiting Prague.

Ebert was primarily active in the field of books and higher education in the field of bibliography. He edited the "Bibliographie des Buchwesens", which appeared since 1918, and edited the "Bibliographical Yearbook for German Higher Education", which appeared since 1912. As a co-editor, he was also active in the "Literaturblatt für deutsches Hochschulwesen" and "Minerva-Zeitschrift".

Fonts

  • together with Oskar Scheuer : Bibliographical yearbook for German higher education , vol. 1. Vienna Leipzig 1912. GoogleBooks . - Reprint Nabu Press (2011), ISBN 978-1-24564055-8 .
  • From the workshop of Poeschel & Trepte: a contribution to the bibliography of German private printing . In: Alere flammam . Society of Friends of the German Library, Leipzig 1921, pp. 7–37.
  • University studies: the literature of the year 1924 , Leipzig 1925 (Literarisches Zentralblatt für Deutschland. Annual reports of the Literarisches Zentralblatt on the most important new scientific publications in the entire German-speaking area; 1,2).
  • The private prints and their maintenance in the Deutsche Bücherei . In: The Deutsche Bücherei after the first decade of its existence: retrospectives and prospects . Deutsche Bücherei, Leipzig 1925, pp. 1–11.
  • The redesign of the general German bibliographies . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 48 (1931), pp. 522-526.

literature

  • Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , pp. 64f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubert Lang: Lawyer History. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Sören Flachowsky: " Armory for the swords of the spirit". The Deutsche Bücherei during the Nazi era . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3196-9 .
  3. ↑ Prager Tagblatt, November 30, 1915, p. 4 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Ulrich Hohoff: Scientific librarians as victims of the Nazi dictatorship. An overview of 250 résumés since 1933 . Part 1: The layoffs . In: O-Bib. Das Offene Bibliotheksjournal, Vol. 2 (2015), Issue 2, pp. 1–32, here: p. 6 ( https://doi.org/10.5282/o-bib/2015H2S1-32 ).
personal data
SURNAME Ebert, Otto Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1934
Place of death Prague