Robert Abendroth

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Emil Robert Abendroth (born March 9, 1842 in Pirna , † February 14, 1917 in Leipzig ) was a German curator, librarian and archivist .

Life

Abendroth came from the widespread and originally from the city of Scheibenberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains , the Abendroth family. a. and the Hamburg lawyer and mayor Amandus Augustus Abendroth (1767-1842) belongs. He was born in the Saxon city of Pirna on the Elbe . After attending grammar school, he studied natural sciences and philosophy at the University of Leipzig in 1864/65 . In 1868 he graduated as Dr. phil. with the dissertation on the subject of morphology and relations of arachnids .

In 1884 he became an assistant and in 1896 curator at the Leipzig University Library . In 1900 he was appointed librarian and on March 11, 1902, he was appointed senior librarian. At the same time he was the curator of Gehler's medical library.

His main work was the publication The Problem of Matter , published by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig in 1889 . A contribution to the critique of knowledge and natural philosophy. The bibliographical system of natural history and medicine (including general natural science), presented according to the specialist catalogs of the Leipzig University Library, introduced historically and critically and explained by Robert Abendroth . It appeared in 1914 and was published in a revised form by Fock in Leipzig in 1921.

Robert Abendroth also worked part-time as archivist for the Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig.

He lived in Leipzig, Brandvorwerkstraße 38 II.

Fonts

  • The problem of matter: a contribution to epistemological criticism and natural philosophy , Leipzig: Engelmann 1889 ( digitized version ).
  • The bibliographical system of natural history and medicine (including general natural science) , 2 volumes, Borna: Noske, 1914.

literature

  • Who is it , 4th ed., 1909, p. 2
  • Robert Abendroth . In: Yearbook of German Libraries , Wiesbaden, Vol. 13 (1916), p. 93.
  • Robert Abendroth . In: Literarisches Zentralblatt für Deutschland , Leipzig, 1917, p. 225.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is it? , 4th ed., 1909, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Abendroth, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abendroth, Emil Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German curator, librarian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirna
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1917
Place of death Leipzig