Ralph Lansky

Ralph Lansky (born July 18, 1931 in Riga ) is a German lawyer , librarian and legal bibliographer .

Life

Ralph Lansky lived in the Rhineland after World War II and studied law in Cologne and Bonn . This was followed by the first state legal examination in Düsseldorf and the doctorate to become a Dr. jur. in Bonn as well as an apprenticeship and examination for the higher library service in Cologne.

From 1962 he worked at the City and University Library in Frankfurt am Main (since 2005 called University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg ), from 1966 at the University of Bonn as head of the library of the legal seminar and subject librarian for law at the university library, from 1970 as library director. From 1972 until his retirement in 1993 he was director of the library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg . He is one of the founders of the Association for Legal Library and Documentation ( AjBD ). From 1971 to 1974 he was chairman of this association of legal librarians and documentaries from German-speaking countries. He was a member of the board until 1996. As a legal librarian , he has promoted this profession in a variety of ways through professional activity, association work in the German and international area and a series of publications. These were not only useful for librarians.

In 1991, on his 60th birthday, Library and Law - international appeared. Festschrift Ralph Lansky, edited by Jürgen C. Gödan and Holger Knudsen. In 1996 he was made an honorary member by the AjBD. A similar honor ("Life Member") was given in 1995 by the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL). Lansky was also active in this world association of legal libraries.

estate

Lansky bequeathed his academic legacy to the Hamburg State and University Library . This estate has been placed in the estate magazine of the SUB Hamburg since 2009 and can be used in the manuscript reading room.

Fonts

The Hague Convention of April 15, 1958 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in the Field of Child Support. Diss. Jur. Bonn. Self-published in 1960.
The protection of public libraries according to German administrative and criminal law. Greven, Cologne 1963. ( Works from the Librarian Training Institute of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Issue 24.)
Library regulations. 1st edition Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1967; from 3rd edition 1980–2005 with bibliography on library law; from 2004 continued by Carl E. Kesper; 4th edition 2007-. ISBN 978-3-465-03482-7 .
Systematics of jurisprudence in basic features. Bouvier, Bonn 1968. ( Bonn contributions to library and book studies. Volume 17.)
Bibliography on library law. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1970–74. ( Journal for Librarianship and Bibliography. Special Issue 10 and Supplementary Issue.)
The scientific librarians in the Federal Republic of Germany. A sociological analysis based on statistics. Bouvier, Bonn 1971. ( Bonn contributions to library and book studies. Volume 23.)
Legal and political science journals from the University of Bonn. 2nd edition, Volume 1.2. Bouvier, Bonn 1974-76. ( Bonn contributions to library and book studies. Volume 7.) (1st edition 1961 by Käte Hoedt.)
Basic literature law: Federal Republic of Germany. A selection bibliography. Basic literature on law: Federal Republic of Germany. A selective bibliography. 3rd edition. Schweitzer, Munich 1984. ISBN 3-88709-100-0 . (1st edition 1974.)
Jurisprudence. In: Totok / Weitzel: Handbook of the bibliographical reference works. 6th edition, volume 2. Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1985, ISBN 3-465-01594-0 , pp. 366-401. (4th ed. 1972.)
[Ed., With Raimund-Ekkehard Walter :] In the service of law and legal literature. In the service of law and legal literature. Festschrift for Helmut Dau on his 65th birthday on September 30, 1991. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1992. ISBN 3-87061-393-9 . Contents.
Legal Libraries Manual. Handbook of law libraries. German Library Institute, Berlin 1993. ISBN 3-87068-437-2 .
The legal librarians in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Introductory presentation and directory of lawyers working full-time in the library. Directory of law librarians in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Working Group for Legal Library and Documentation (AjBD), Regensburg 1997, ISSN 0935-2538 . ( Law, library, documentation. Special issue 1997.)
Necrology of legal librarians in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: 1970–1996. Necrology of law librarians in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland: 1970–1996. In: International Journal of Legal Information. 24. 1996 (1998), ISSN 0731-1265 , pp. 234-262, 25. 1997 (1999), pp. XI.
Bibliographical handbook of law and administration. Bibliographical handbook on law and public administration. Volume 1-3. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1987–99. ISBN 3-465-01726-9 (Volume 1). Continued with Gerd Hoffmann and Raimund-Ekkehard Walter in Law, Library, Documentation Vol. 29–34 (1999–2004), ISSN 0935-2538 .
History of the Lansky / Lantzky families, especially the German Baltic branches. German-Baltic Genealogical Society , Darmstadt 2006. ( Baltic genealogical tables. Special issue. 31.) ISSN 0721-202X .
[In cooperation with Darrell Frogness and Fritz Lansky:] Joseph and Juliane Lansky, their ancestors and descendants. A family history in Germany, the Baltics, and the United States. Self-published, Kaarst 2012.
[With Gerd Hoffmann and Raimund-Ekkehard Walter:] New legal bibliographies and other information media (NJBI). New legal bibliographies and other information sources. Selected explanatory bibliography. Selective and annotated bibliography. Hoffmann, Schifferstadt 2013. ISBN 978-3-929349-60-3 .

literature

Jürgen C. Gödan: "This is Lansky" - Ralph Lansky 80 years old. In: Law, Library, Documentation 41. 2011 (2012), pp. 3–4 and 42 (2012), p. 84 (change notice). ISSN 0935-2538 .
Igor I. Kavass, Arno Liivak: Ralph Lansky in conversation. To interview. In: International Journal of Legal Information. 26, 1998 (1999), pp. 160-183. ISSN 0731-1265 . (The interview took place in Hamburg in October 1994.)
Ralph Lansky: autobibliography and biography. Autobibliography and -biography. (autobib.) At the same time, an introduction to my academic papers at the Hamburg State and University Library. Hamburg 2001–. (Last updated 2018.) (PDF; 259 kB.)

Web links

Literature by and about Ralph Lansky in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ During his doctorate (1957–1960) he worked part-time as a research assistant at the University of Bonn, and from 1958–1960 as a trainee lawyer in the legal preparatory service (until he was appointed library trainee).
↑ Part-time he was a lecturer for science and bibliography in law, economics and social sciences at the library school in Frankfurt a. M.
^ Predecessor: Hans Peter des Coudres , successor: Jürgen Christoph Gödan.
↑ Together with Agiro and Raimund-Ekkehard Walter , he also founded the Wikipedia articles Legal Librarian (from 2011) and Legal Library (from 2015). Compare also Ralph Lansky, Gerd Hoffmann: Rechtsbibliothekare in the German-language Wikipedia. In: Law, Library, Documentation 44 (2014) pp. 56–57.
↑ International Association of Law Libraries (IALL)
^ Collection of personal papers and autographs from the Hamburg State and University Library
↑ The collection of rules goes back to a suggestion by Clemens Köttelwesch, the then director of the City and University Library in Frankfurt am Main. - See also Ulrike Eich: The Association of German Librarians in the Post-War Period. In: Association of German Librarians 1900–2000. Festschrift. Edited by Engelbert Plassmann and Ludger Syré. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04247-8 , p. 136: “Another important service of this time, the compilation of the library regulations, was not performed by a commission; it is the work of Ralph Lansky, who was a member of the legal commission, but did this work alone. "
↑ This publication has largely made it obsolete: German Libraries for Comparative Law, Foreign and International Law. German libraries for comparative, foreign, and international law. Working group for legal library and documentation, Hamburg / Augsburg 1990, ISBN 3-926911-03-4 . ( Workbooks of the Working Group for Legal Libraries and Documentation No. 14.)
↑ This publication is largely out of date: Handbook of Bibliographies on the Law of Developing Countries. Handbook of bibliographies on law in the developing countries. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-465-01446-4 .
^ Law, library, documentation - RBD. Announcements from the Association for Legal Library and Documentation (AjBD).
↑ Continues the Bibliographical Handbook of Law and Administrative Sciences cited above . Cumulates and supplements the sequels published in Law, Library, Documentation .
↑ See also above under "Estate" .

personal data
SURNAME	Lansky, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, librarian and legal bibliographer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 18, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Riga

[1] During his doctorate (1957–1960) he worked part-time as a research assistant at the University of Bonn, and from 1958–1960 as a trainee lawyer in the legal preparatory service (until he was appointed library trainee).

[2] Part-time he was a lecturer for science and bibliography in law, economics and social sciences at the library school in Frankfurt a. M.

[3] Predecessor: Hans Peter des Coudres , successor: Jürgen Christoph Gödan.

[4] Together with Agiro and Raimund-Ekkehard Walter , he also founded the Wikipedia articles Legal Librarian (from 2011) and Legal Library (from 2015). Compare also Ralph Lansky, Gerd Hoffmann: Rechtsbibliothekare in the German-language Wikipedia. In: Law, Library, Documentation 44 (2014) pp. 56–57.

[5] International Association of Law Libraries (IALL)

[6] Collection of personal papers and autographs from the Hamburg State and University Library

[7] The collection of rules goes back to a suggestion by Clemens Köttelwesch, the then director of the City and University Library in Frankfurt am Main. - See also Ulrike Eich: The Association of German Librarians in the Post-War Period. In: Association of German Librarians 1900–2000. Festschrift. Edited by Engelbert Plassmann and Ludger Syré. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04247-8 , p. 136: “Another important service of this time, the compilation of the library regulations, was not performed by a commission; it is the work of Ralph Lansky, who was a member of the legal commission, but did this work alone. "

[8] This publication has largely made it obsolete: German Libraries for Comparative Law, Foreign and International Law. German libraries for comparative, foreign, and international law. Working group for legal library and documentation, Hamburg / Augsburg 1990, ISBN 3-926911-03-4 . ( Workbooks of the Working Group for Legal Libraries and Documentation No. 14.)

[9] This publication is largely out of date: Handbook of Bibliographies on the Law of Developing Countries. Handbook of bibliographies on law in the developing countries. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-465-01446-4 .

[10] Law, library, documentation - RBD. Announcements from the Association for Legal Library and Documentation (AjBD).

[11] Continues the Bibliographical Handbook of Law and Administrative Sciences cited above . Cumulates and supplements the sequels published in Law, Library, Documentation .

[12] See also above under "Estate" .