Paul Schwenke

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Georg Paul Schwenke (born March 20, 1853 in Langendembach , † December 19, 1921 in Berlin ) was a German librarian and binding researcher .

He received his first lessons in the village school, his father instructed him in the ancient languages ; from 1865 to 1870 he attended high school in Eisenach. From 1870 to 1874 he studied theology and classical philology in Leipzig and classical philology in Breslau and Jena . In 1874 he received his doctorate in philosophy in Jena .

In 1875 he worked as an "extraordinary laborer" at the Greifswald University Library . In the same year he passed the examination for the higher teaching post. From 1879 he was curator at the State Library in Kiel . In 1887 he got a job as a sub-librarian at the University Library of Göttingen . In 1893 he took over the management of the University Library in Königsberg .

In 1895 he called for the establishment of a complete register of all binding stamps rubbed through in libraries with historical book holdings and thus advocated systematic research on binding. In 1898 he gave a lecture at the 44th Philologists' Meeting in Dresden on research into German book covers of the 15th and 16th centuries . Schwenke tried to set up a central collection point for rubbing through bindings and their tools at the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg .

In 1899 he became director of the printing department at the Royal Library in Berlin . He was a co-founder and first chairman of the Association of German Librarians . From 1900 he published a series of works on the history of printing on the beginnings of book printing and the Gutenberg question .

From 1903 to 1914 he played a key role in the planning of the new building for the Royal Library on Unter den Linden (today the Berlin State Library ). In 1906 he became the first director of the Royal Library in Berlin. In this position, Schwenke was responsible for the internal library operations alongside Karl Gustav Adolf von Harnack . In 1912 he traveled to the USA (East and Midwest of the United States). Paul Schwenke retired on April 21, 1921.

Paul Schwenke was one of the most important binding researchers in Germany. His collection of cover rubs is systematically indexed in the cover database and made available on the Internet.

Fonts

  • A 9th Century Library and its Custos. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, Vol. 2, 1885, pp. 241–242 ( online ).
  • Address book of the German libraries (10th supplement of the Zentralblatt für Bibliothekwesen ), 1893.
  • Yearbook of the German Libraries , 1902 ff.
  • Zentralblatt für Bibliothekwesen , 1904 to 1921 publisher.
  • The new building of the Royal Library in Berlin . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 25, 1908, pp. 262–263.
  • The forty-two line Gutenberg Bible. After the parchment copy of the Royal Library of Berlin and that of the State Library in Fulda , Vol. 1: Facsimile edition (the Mainz edition 1543–1555). Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1913, Vol. 2 1914.
  • The inauguration of the new Royal Library in Berlin . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 31, 1914, pp. 147–162.
  • The bookbinder with the lute player and the knot . In: incunabula and manuscripts. Festgabe Konrad Haebler for his 60th birthday . Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1919, pp. 122–144.
  • The library as a whole . In: Fifteen Years of the Royal and State Library. Presented to the outgoing General Director Adolf von Harnack on March 31, 1921 by the academic officials of the Prussian State Library . Berlin: Prussian State Library, 1921, pp. 1–10.
  • Donat prints from the State Library in Mainz . In: Fifteen Years of the Royal and State Library […], pp. 31–36.

literature

  • Hermann Degering : Paul Schwenke in memory . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 39, 1922, pp. 1–24.
  • Paul Schwenke, librarian and book scholar. Contributions to the symposium in the Herzog August Library on November 29th and 30th, 2004 . Wiesbaden, 2005 ( library and science ; 38)
  • Johannes Buder:  Schwenke, Georg Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 67-69 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwenke Collection
  2. ^ Symposium on Paul Schwenke , 29. – 30. November 2004, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Library .

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personal data
SURNAME Pan, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwenke, Georg Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and binding researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Langendembach
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1921
Place of death Berlin