Robert Naumann (Librarian)

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Robert Naumann (Emil Wilhelm Robert Naumann; born December 3, 1809 in Leipzig ; † August 31, 1880 ibid) was a German high school teacher and librarian .

Life

Naumann was the son of master tailor Johann Gottfried Naumann and his wife Johanna Christiane, nee. Lochmann. In 1827 he passed the Abitur at the Nikolai-Gymnasium in Leipzig , then he studied theology and classical philology at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1830 . Also in 1830 he was employed as an observer at the Leipzig Council Library. In 1832 Naumann passed the "theological candidate examination", in 1833 he became a catechist at the St. Peter's Church in Leipzig . Finally, in 1835, he switched to the Nikolai Gymnasium as a teacher of ancient languages, history, geography and religion, where he worked until 1876. Also in 1835 he was appointed sub-librarian of the council library.

In this part-time position he achieved particular merits by organizing the library, cataloging numerous volumes and increasing the holdings from 37,000 to 100,000 volumes in his almost fifty-year tenure. His most important act was the preparation of the manuscript catalog, the "Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum ..." (Naumann catalog). Together with the Leipzig publisher Theodor Oswald Weigel, he published the magazine " Serapeum : Journal for Library Science, Handwriting and Older Literature", which appeared from 1840 to 1870. It was the first specialist library science journal in Germany. Between 1855 and 1860, Naumann and Rudolf Weigel also published the magazine “Archive for the Drawing Arts”.

Naumann was a member of the Leipzig Johannisloge Balduin zur Linde . His estate is in the Leipzig University Library .

Works (selection)

As an author

Monographs
  • Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum qui in Bibliotheca Senatoria Civitatis Lipsiensis asservantur: accedunt tabulae lithographicae XV. Codices orientalium linguarum descripserunt Henricus Orthobius Fleischer et Franciscus Delitzsch . Gebhardt, Grimae 1838 [published 1840] ( digitized version ).
  • Guide through the exhibition of manuscripts and printed works at the Leipzig City Library . Melzer, Leipzig 1856.
  • The Battle of Nations near Leipzig along with news from contemporaries and eyewitnesses about the same With a map of the battlefield and a plan of the city of Leipzig from 1813 . TO Weigel, Leipzig 1863 ( digitized version ).
  • On October 19, 1864. Festschrift for the members of the association founded fifty years ago on October 19, 1914 to celebrate October 19 . Weigel, Leipzig 1864 ( digitized version )
  • From the year 1813. Communications to the members of the association for the celebration of October 19th in Leipzig . Weigel, Leipzig 1869 ( digitized version ).
  • The Napoleon Stone on the Thonberge near Leipzig . To denote the standing quarters owned by Napoleon I on October 18, 1813, established by the association for the celebration of October 19 in Leipzig . Baensch, Leipzig 1871 ( digitized version )
  • The Fraternity of Notaries and Litterates in Leipzig . Naumann, Leipzig 1874. ( digitized version ).
Essays
  • Acta Lutherorum at the Leipzig City Library . In: Serapeum , Vol. 1 (1840), pp. 46-48.
  • About the manuscript of the Annales Fuldenses in the Leipzig City Library . In: Serapeum , vol. 1 (1840), pp. 145-152.
  • Some news about the legacy of the Pölitz library to the Leipzig city library . In: Serapeum , vol. 1 (1840), pp. 13-60.
  • About a manuscript by Valerius Maximus in the Leipzig city library . In: Serapeum , Vol. 2 (1841), pp. 113-123.
  • About some recently published anecdotes from the manuscripts of the Leipzig City Library . In: Serapeum , Vol. 3 (1842), pp. 267-269.
  • About some manuscripts by Hans Sachs , along with some unprinted poems by this poet . In: Invitation to the Valediction Act of some Nicolai students going to university . 1843, pp. 3-35.
  • Pro dromus et specimen Catalogus librorum mss. qui in bibliotheca senatoria civitatis Lipsiensis asservantur . In: Archives for Saxon History and Antiquity , Vol. 1 (1843), pp. 296–317.
  • About some manuscripts by Hans Sachs, along with some unprinted poems by this poet . In: Serapeum , vol. 4 (1843), p. 145.
  • About a so far unknown xylographic product of the press by Christoph Froschover in Zurich . In: Serapeum , Vol. 5 (1844), pp. 241-244.
  • Communications from the manuscript collection of the Leipzig City Library . In: Serapeum , Vol. 5 (1844), pp. 244-249.
  • [About the secular celebration of Leibniz's birthday in Hanover in 1846] with addendum . In: Serapeum , Vol. 7 (1846), pp. 22-224, 240.
  • The parchment prints of the Leipzig City Library . In: Serapeum , Vol. 7 (1846), pp. 352-365.
  • Description of the manuscripts in the possession of Mr. TO Weigel in Leipzig . In: Serapeum , Vol. 8 (1847), pp. 199-202.
  • Seriousness and joke in the signatures of old manuscripts . In: Serapeum , Vol. 8 (1847), pp. 346-350.
  • Report on a public exhibition organized at the Leipzig City Library . In: Serapeum , Vol. 8 (1847), pp. 193-199.
  • A Cisio-Janus in a manuscript in the Leipzig City Library . In: Serapeum , Vol. 9 (1848), pp. 36-40.
  • The Raths or grammar school library in Zwickau . In: Serapeum , Vol. 9 (1848), pp. 145-157.
  • On the history of the spiritual libraries in Leipzig . In: Serapeum , Vol. 13 (1852), pp. 331-334.
  • The paintings in the manuscripts of the Leipzig City Library . In: Archives for the arts of drawing with special reference to the art of engraving and woodcutting and their history , vol. 1 (1855), pp. 233–235.
  • The oil paintings in the Leipzig City Library . In: Archives for the arts of drawing with special reference to the art of engraving and woodcutting and their history , vol. 3 (1857), pp. 39–55.
  • The invitation to the opening of the Leipzig City Library in 1711 . In: Serapeum . Vol. 26 (1865), pp. 177-180.
  • Newly found fragments of a manuscript by the younger Titurel . A contribution to the history of the devastation of manuscripts . In: Serapeum , Vol. 26 (1867), pp. 193-196.
  • Narratio de Adamo Oleario , Conrectore quondam Scholae Nicolaitanae Lipsiensis celeberrimo saeculi XVII. peregrinatore . In: Program of the Nicolaigymnasium in Leipzig 1867 . Edelmann, Leipzig 1868, pp. 3–22.

As editor

  • Catalog of the duplicates of the Leipzig City Library, which ... are auctioned in 1842 . Leipzig City Library, Leipzig 1842.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ today part of the Leipzig City Library
  2. ^ Ie Theodor Oswald Weigel (1812–1881), bookseller in Leipzig


personal data
SURNAME Naumann, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1880
Place of death Leipzig