Otto Hartwig

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Otto Peter Conrad Hartwig (born November 16, 1830 in Wichmannshausen , † December 22, 1903 in Marburg ) was a German librarian and historian .

Life

Otto Hartwig was the son of pastor Hermann Hartwig and his wife Wilhelmine, nee. Conradi. After his father was transferred to Hundelshausen , he went to the Progymnasium in Eschwege in 1842 and in 1844 switched to the Gymnasium in Hersfeld , where he passed his Abitur in 1850. From there he went to study theology and philosophy at the University of Marburg , where he was involved in the foundation of the old fraternity Germania in 1851 and was made an honorary member of the Arminia fraternity in 1863 . In 1852 he went to the University of Halle for a year , then returned to Marburg in 1853 and passed his first theological exam in 1855. He then worked in Göttingen on his dissertation and was established in March 1857 in Marburg doctorate .

For a short time he worked in Reinhausen near Göttingen, but then went to the University Library of Marburg . In 1860 he went to Messina for five years , where he worked as a preacher for the German Evangelical community. After his return to Germany he was a temporary assistant teacher at the grammar school in Rinteln , then in 1866 he became secretary at the university library in Marburg and in 1876 he took over the management of the university library in Halle , where he became senior librarian in 1884 and library director in 1889. In 1898 he retired and moved back to Marburg, where he died in 1903 as a Privy Councilor .

Otto Hartwig was one of the most influential librarians of his time and, together with Karl Dziatzko , August Wilmanns and the ministerial official Friedrich Althoff, played a key role in the reform and professionalization of the Prussian library system. He was the founder and from 1884 to 1903 the editor of 20 volumes of the Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen .

Fonts

As an author:

  • Henricus de Langenstein dictus de Hassia , Marburg: Elwert 1857 (dissertation).
  • From Sicily. Culture and history pictures , 2 volumes, Cassel and Göttingen: Wigand 1867/69.
  • Sources and research on the oldest history of the city of Florence , 2 volumes, Marburg: Elwert 1875/80 (volume 1: archive.org ).
  • Florence and Dante , Paetel, Berlin 1892.
  • The translation literature of Lower Italy in the Norman-Staufer epoch . In: Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 3, 1886, pp. 161–190 ( digitized version ), addendum: p. 223–225 ( digitized version ).
  • Two Hessian librarians. Karl Julius Caesar and Johann Georg Albert Duncker . In: Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 3, 1886, pp. 513-534 ( digitized version ).
  • The oldest and the youngest paper . In: Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 5, 1888, pp. 197-201 ( digitized version ).
  • Ludwig Bamberger , Marburg: Arrow 1900 ( archive.org ).
  • From the life of a German librarian , Marburg: Elwert 1906 ( archive.org ).

As editor:

  • Laura Gonzenbach : Sicilian fairy tales. Collected from the vernacular . With comments by Reinhold Köhler and an introduction published by Otto Hartwig, 2 parts, Leipzig: Engelmann 1870
  • Festschrift for the five hundredth birthday of Johann Gutenberg . On behalf of the city of Mainz. Mainz / Leipzig: Harrassowitz 1900 (digitized: urn : nbn: de: s2w-7488 )

literature

  • Arnim Graesel: Otto Hartwig † . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Volume 21 (1904), pp. 97-103 ( n117  - Internet Archive ).
  • Rudolf Bonnet: Die Toten der Marburger Burschenschaft Arminia , Volume 1, Frankfurt am Main 1926, p. 4 (there also picture in the foreword).
  • Rupprecht Leppla:  Hartwig, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 15 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Memories of Otto Hartwig and the youth of the Zentralblatt für Libraries . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Volume 50, 1933, pp. 21-27.
  • Ilse Barnikol: Otto Hartwig (1830–1903). List of his publications . University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 1980.
  • Rotraut Fischer, Christina Ujma: "As an esthete and as a person you have to go to Italy". Otto Hartwig's Italian passions . In: Alma Mater Philippina , Marburg 1998, pp. 38-44.
  • Rotraut Fischer, Christina Ujma: From the Lahn to the Arno. Otto Hartwig. A Hessian librarian in Italy. With an appendix to unpublished letters . In: Yearbook of the Brothers Grimm Society , Volume 7, 1997, pp. 55–84.

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Hartwig  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5692, p. 482 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Hartwig, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartwig, Otto Peter Conrad (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Wichmannshausen
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1903
Place of death Marburg