Reinhard Mosen

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Reinhard Mosen (born August 21, 1843 in Dresden , † September 3, 1907 in Oldenburg ) was a German secret councilor and librarian in the service of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

Life

Reinhard Mosen was born as the younger son of the well-known writer Julius Mosen . His ancestors were evangelical pastors and cantors in Marieney in Vogtland or were active in the school service. The originally Jewish family immigrated from Prague in the middle of the 16th century and then converted to the Christian faith.

Mosen attended high school in Oldenburg from 1850 . In 1862 he began studying classical philology in Jena . Like his father before, he joined the Jena fraternity Germania and the literary circles of the university town and corrected and edited the first complete edition of his father's works. In 1864 he moved to the University of Berlin and shifted the focus of his studies to modern languages . He worked in the neo-philological seminar and finally passed the state examination for the higher teaching post in early 1868. By autumn 1870 Mosen was then a teacher of English and French at the Wilhelmsschule in Wolgast . When his older brother Erich died on August 16, 1870 in the battle of Mars-la-Tour in the Franco-Prussian War , Mosen was transferred from there to the municipal secondary school in Oldenburg in order to be closer to his mother, who was meanwhile also widowed. In 1874 he was appointed there to the head teacher and his doctorate in 1875 with a work about the English playwright and actor Thomas Otway in Jena to the Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1877, after Theodor Merzdorf's death, Mosen applied for the position of librarian at the Grand Ducal Public Library , but was unsuccessful. It was not until 1884 that Mosen was appointed to this position as the successor to the late August Lübben. The focus of his official work was less on organizational matters and more on user advice and scientific information. On the other hand, he also had a latent dispute with the library commission, which was still formally responsible for library management. In 1889 Mosen became senior librarian and had various other assignments to work on. For example, from 1896 the revision of the Grand Ducal private library and the cataloging of its new acquisitions and, from 1899, the entire new cataloging of this book collection including the order of the Tischbein estate contained therein. In the same year Mosen was awarded the Knight's Cross, Second Class, of the Grand Ducal House and Merit Order for his services, and in 1904 he was appointed a secret councilor.

In addition to his professional activity, Mosen was involved in various ways in the social life of Oldenburg. From 1871 he was a member of the literary-sociable association in which he gave numerous lectures and whose presidency he took over from 1886 to 1887. Since 1881 he was also active in the Literary Society and served as Secretarius perpetuus from 1897 to 1902 . As a freemason, he was a deputy master in the Oldenburg lodge, the Golden Hirsch, from 1888 to 1894 and master of the chair from 1894 to 1901 . Although Mosen did not come close to his predecessors in terms of quality and scope of his academic work and library initiatives, he nonetheless had a respected and co-determining position in the literary and academic life of Oldenburg and was, according to Mosen's biographer Egbert Koolman, a “sensitive connoisseur of literature and History and witty scholarly librarian ”.

family

Mosen was married to Karolina Johanna geb. Breast (* 1847). The couple remained childless. After Mosen's death, his wife moved back to her home in Greifswald in 1908 .

Works

  • About Thomas Otway's life and works, with special consideration of the "tragedies". Jena. 1875.
  • Julius Mosen. A biographical sketch. Oldenburg. 1878.
  • Biography of Julius Mosen. Published in: Julius Mosen: Complete Works. New edition Leipzig. 1880.
  • The life of Princess Charlotte Amélie de la Trémoïlle, Countess von Aldenburg. As editor. Oldenburg. 1892.
  • Foreword to: Julius Mosen, memories. Plauen. 1893.
  • Robin Hood . Dramatic poetry set to music by Albert Dietrich . Without location information. Before 1879.
  • Biterolf. Unpublished poetry. 1877.

Remarks

  1. ↑ There are different details about the year of birth. While Egbert Koolman states 1843 in his Mosen biography, 1848 is the year of birth on the homepage of the German National Library .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Wolf Jäger:  Mosen, Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 171 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Dieter Seidel: Julius Mosen. Life and work. A biography. Ed. Julius-Mosen-Gesellschaft e. V., 2003, pp. 345-348.
  3. ^ Egbert Koolman: Mosen, Reinhard In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 483 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Mosen, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1907
Place of death Oldenburg