Peter Bruhn

This article is about the librarian Peter Bruhn. For other people see Peter Bruun .

Peter Bruhn (born September 3, 1926 as Hans-Peter Bruhn in Wernigerode ; † August 4, 2009 ) was a German librarian and bibliographer with a focus on literature from and about Russia / USSR / CIS.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1946 at the Fürst-Otto-Gymnasium in Wernigerode, Bruhn completed a degree in Slavic , English and library studies from 1947 at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg , which he completed in 1952 with the state examination. After a short teaching activity at the Martin Luther University, he began training as a trainee lawyer for the higher academic library service in Berlin at what was then the Public Scientific Library (later the German State Library). Because of his involvement on June 17, 1953 , Bruhn had to leave the GDR. He continued his education at the Free University in West Berlin and joined the Eastern European Institute there in 1956, from which he left when he retired in 1991.

As part of the Eastern Europe Institute, Bruhn founded the documentation center for literature from and about Russia / USSR in 1956 and in 1979 took over the scientific management of the institute's library. Under his leadership, the regional scientific database RussGUS was created , which contains bibliographical evidence of German-language literature with reference to Russia, the USSR and their successor states for the years 1974 to 2003.

Selected publications

• The Amber Room of Tsarskoe Selo near Saint Petersburg, Bibliography , 2nd edition, Berlin-Erkner Bock & Kübler 2004. ISBN 3-86155-109-8
• Looted art - bibliography of international literature on the fate of the cultural property captured by the Red Army in Germany during World War II , 4th edition, volumes 1 and 2, Munich Otto Sagner 2003. ISBN 3-87690-835-3
• 50 Years June 17, 1953, Bibliography , Berlin BWV 2003. ISBN 3-8305-0399-7
• (together with Volkhard Thiede), Bibliographies on literature from and about Eastern Europe , Munich Omnia 1992.
• (together with Henry Glade ), Heinrich Böll in the Soviet Union - Introduction to the Soviet Böll reception and bibliography of the writings published in the USSR in Russian by and about Heinrich Böll , Berlin Erich Schmidt 1980. ISBN 3-503-01617 -1
• (together with Vera Ziegler ), Russia and the Soviet Union in German-language literature , Berlin Wiesbaden Otto Harrassowitz 1978. ISBN 3-447-01976-X
• The Soviet literature on the Federal Republic of Germany together with Berlin (West) - Bibliographical Yearbook , Berlin Wiesbaden Otto Harrassowitz 1971/72 (1976) ff. ISBN 3-447-01813-5
• (together with Werner Philipp), Complete Directory of Russian and Soviet Periodicals and Series Works in Libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin , Volumes 1–4. Berlin Wiesbaden Otto Harrassowitz 1962–1976

literature

Jürgen Plähn, On October 1st 1991 Mr. Peter Bruhn, head of the common library of the Eastern European Institute and scientific director of the documentation center for the literature from and about Russia / USSR of the same institute, retired In: FU-Info - the magazine of the Free University of Berlin No. 1 of January 31, 1992, p. 22

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Bruhn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Detailed professional homepage for Peter Bruhn