Paul Scherrer (Librarian)

Paul Scherrer also Scherrer-Bylund (born August 28, 1900 in St. Gallen ; † March 28, 1992 ibid.), Entitled to live in St. Gallen, was a Swiss librarian .

Life

Paul Scherrer, the youngest son of the St. Gallen merchant, city councilor and puppet theater manager Hermann Scherrer and the née Sophie Gehrig, attended primary school in St. Gallen, passed the Matura at the Humanistic Gymnasium St. Gallen before studying German at the Universities of Munich , Berlin and Glasgow , which he achieved in Munich in 1927 with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. phil. completed.

In January 1929, Paul Scherrer was elected as a research assistant at the University Library of Basel , where he was appointed librarian in 1931, and in 1947 he moved to the ETH-Bibliothek Zurich as senior librarian , where he took over the management in 1953; he was also director from 1956 to 1961 of the Thomas-Mann Archive. In 1963, Scherrer was given the post of director of the central library in Zurich , which he filled until he retired in 1971.

During his tenure as director of the central library in Zurich, Paul Scherrer was primarily responsible for its expansion into a modern academic general library. Paul Scherrer - his first marriage was Tamara née Wintsch in 1929, his second marriage was Barbro née Bylund in 1963 - he died on March 28, 1992, five months before he was 92, in his hometown of St. Gallen.

Fonts

Thomas Murner's relationship to humanism: examined on the basis of his "Reformatio Poetarum", dissertation , Basel, 1929
The renovation of the ETH library in the years 1948 to 1951, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, 1951
On the development and tasks of the libraries of technical universities, Leemann, Zurich, 1955
Sub aeternitatis specie: Thoughts on the library profession, Swiss Bibliophile Society, Basel, 1957
Is bibliophilia up to date? : Considerations on the journal "Librarium", Swiss Bibliophile Society, Zurich, 1958
The library of the German Patent Office and the cultural tasks of technical libraries, Heymann, Munich, Cologne, Berlin, 1959
With Hans Wysling : Source-critical studies on the work of Thomas Mann , Francke, Bern, Munich, 1967

literature

Swiss Bibliophile Society: Librarium, volumes 17-18, Swiss Bibliographical Society, 1974 page 134.
Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 8, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 615.
Rudolf Mumenthaler, Wolfram Neubauer, Margit Unser, ETH-Bibliothek: - to seek the truth in the sciences: book treasures of the ETH-Bibliothek from four centuries, ETH-Bibliothek, 2003 ISBN 978-3-9521386-9-4 . Page 15.
Thomas spokesman: In the spirit of accuracy, Vittorio Klostermann, 2006 ISBN 978-3-465-03498-8 . Page 149.

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Scherrer in the catalog of the German National Library
Structure of the structures The TMA under Paul Scherrer (1956 - 1961) (PDF; 46 kB) in www.stadt-zuerich.ch accessed on January 10, 2011

Individual evidence

↑ on the father cf. Elke Krafka: Hermann Scherrer . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1601.

personal data
SURNAME	Scherrer, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Scherrer-Bylund, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	August 28, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 1992
Place of death	St. Gallen

[1] the father cf. Elke Krafka: Hermann Scherrer . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1601.