Paul Dinse

Paul Dinse (born September 6, 1866 in Hamburg , † October 1, 1938 ) was a German geographer and librarian.

Life

Dinse was the son of the machine manufacturer August Dinse and his wife Luise, geb. Dannien. He studied history and geography in Marburg and Berlin , where he also received his doctorate in 1894. As early as 1893 he had joined the Prussian State Library as a volunteer , where he became an assessor in 1895. In 1897 he was on leave to the library of the statistical office of the city of Berlin to rearrange and catalog it. From 1898 to 1900 he was head of the Charlottenburg City Library before moving to the Kiel University Library in 1910 . Here he worked on the final design of the systematic catalog.

Dinse was married to Valeska, b. Sweet, the couple had four children.

Fonts

• The fjord formations: A contribution to the morphology of the coasts . Pormetter, Berlin 1894 (Berlin, Univ., Diss., 1894) [Complete. in: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin, Vol. 29 (1894), pp. 189–259.]
• Catalog of the library of the Society for Geography in Berlin: Attempt to systematize geographical literature . Mittler, Berlin 1903,
• The beginnings of north polar exploration and Henry Hudson's Arctic Ocean voyages . Mittler, Berlin [1908] (Oceanography; 2.2).
• The piracy: a geographical-historical sketch . Mittler, Berlin 1910 (oceanography; 4.2).
• The beginnings of the geographical atlas: on the 400th anniversary of Gerhard Mercator's birthday . In: Marine-Rundschau , 1912, pp. 300–309.
• The handwritten Ptolemy cards and the Agathodemon question . In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin , Vol. 10 (1913), pp. 746–770.

literature

• Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , pp. 59f.