Otto Glauning

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Otto Heinrich Julius Glauning (born August 5, 1876 in Nuremberg , † August 15, 1941 in Munich ) was a German librarian .

family

Otto Glauning was the son of the Nuremberg school councilor Friedrich Glauning (1842–1911) and his wife Anna, nee. Beck (1850–1920), a daughter of the publisher Wilhelm Beck from Nördlingen. He married Fanny Eggel (* 1871) in 1909. The daughter Anna Elisabeth (1910–1987) emerged from this marriage and married the ancient historian Helmut Berve .

Life

Glauning attended the Melanchthon High School in Nuremberg and then studied new languages ​​and German in Erlangen , Berlin and Munich. During his studies in 1896 he became a member of the C. St. V. Uttenruthia Erlangen and in 1899/1900 was a founding member of the Schwarzburgbund - connection Herminonia Munich . Glauning joined the Court and State Library in Munich as a volunteer in 1899 , where he became an assistant in 1901, secretary in 1904, curator in 1909 and librarian in 1911. Working in the manuscript department, he also worked on the "Medieval Library Catalogs" and later also on the "Rarities from South German Libraries"; he built the binding collection and 1914-18 the war collection.

In 1921 he was appointed director of the Leipzig University Library . At the same time he was honorary professor for library science and chairman of the Saxon examination office for library science. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1937 he retired.

Publications (selection)

  • Lydgate's minor poems, the two nightingale poems, (AD 1446); from the mss. with introduction, notes, and glossary . London 1900.
  • German tablets of the IX. to XVI. Century from manuscripts of the K. Court and State Library in Munich , 5 vols., Munich: Kuhn / Leipzig: Hiersemann 1910–1930.
  • Neveu and the robbery of Nuremberg art and book treasures in 1801 . In: Communications of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg, Vol. 22 (1918), pp. 174–244.
  • A century of library history: an inaugural lecture, Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz 1923.
  • The Current Situation of German Academic Libraries, Munich: Kellerer 1926.
  • Dissertation questions . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , vol. 49, 1932, pp. 371–377.
  • Binding and identification of the property . In: Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft, Vol. 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1933, pp. 206–236.
  • The libraries and the public . In: Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft, Vol. 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1933, pp. 581-598.
  • Three leather cut volumes from the turn of the 14th century from old cell . In: Hermann Neubert (ed.): Festschrift Martin Bollert for his 60th birthday , Dresden: Jeß 1936, pp. 188–195.
  • together with Paul Lehmann: Medieval fragments of manuscripts from the university library and the Georgianum in Munich , Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1940 (Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen. Supplement; 72).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 73 No. 906.
  2. ^ Ferdinand Geldner:  Glauning, Otto Heinrich Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 439 ( digitized version ).

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SURNAME Glauning, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glauning, Otto Heinrich Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1941
Place of death Munich