Roland Jäger (historian)

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Roland Otto August Jäger (born May 1, 1935 in Rautenberg near Altenburg ) is a German historian and librarian .

Live and act

Roland Jäger graduated from the college for librarianship in Leipzig and studied history as an external student at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1985 he also received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig with a thesis on “German Liberals in the Hanoverian Constitutional Struggle 1837–1843” .

After the first stages of his professional life as a librarian in Halle (Saale) and Leuna , Jäger took up a position at the Leipzig University Library in 1962 , which he held with changing tasks until he retired. During his many years as a research assistant in the manuscript department, specialist librarian for art history and historical auxiliary sciences, and curator of the coin collection, Jäger repeatedly succeeded in acquiring valuable manuscripts, early prints and coins for the university library. For example, the Paul Nebauer 1980 autograph collection, comprising around 3500 individual pieces. The purchase of Greek and Byzantine gold coins and the acquisition of an exquisite collection of Meißner Groschen ( Günther Röblitz Collection ) partially compensated for the losses of the coin collection during the Second World War and in the post-war period.

Jäger devoted numerous publications to the collections of the university library and the book and publishing history of Leipzig and Germany. As a committed art collector, he published on German artists in the second half of the 20th century, including Max Uhlig and Hermann Glöckner , but especially the painter and graphic artist Gerhard Altenbourg (1926–1989), with whom he was friends.

Roland Jäger is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • I collect drawings. In memory of Albert Wigand . In: Marginalien 71 (1978), pp. 53-56
  • The Evoë archive in the autograph collection of the Leipzig University Library . In: Marginalien 78 (1980), pp. 25-49
  • with Dietmar Debes: collections of the university library . In: Ernst Ullmann (ed.), Kunstschätze der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig , Leipzig 1981, pp. 65–92
  • The first edition of Georg Forster's works. A documentation from the archive of the FA Brockhaus Leipzig publishing house . In: Friedhilde Krause, Hans-Erich Teitge (ed.), Studies on Books and Libraries 2, Leipzig 1982, pp. 73–81
  • Nummotheca Lipsiensis. Coins and medals from the university library's coin collection . Leipzig, 1983
  • Hegenbarth in Dresden . In: Josef Hegenbarth , drawings and colored sheets from the years 1925 to 1962 . Galerie am Sachsenplatz, 136th sales exhibition, Leipzig 1987, pp. 7–13
  • "After Emmaus". Out and about with Gerhard Altenbourg . In: Eduard Beaucamp (ed.): The third eye. A dialogue between the friends Gerhard Altenbourg and Erhart Kästner . Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1992, pp. 113–125
  • German literature of the 18th and 19th centuries from the library of Mr. Kurt Wolff in Leipzig. The end of a collection and the beginning of a publishing house . In: Marginalien 135 (1994), pp. 21-30
  • "Golden Bear", "Silver Bear". Printers and writers in Leipzig . Lecture at the 96th annual meeting of the Society of Bibliophiles e. V. on June 18, 1995 in Leipzig, Munich 1995
  • From the history of the coin collection of the Leipzig University Library . In: Erfurter Münzblätter 5 (1997), Issue 1, pp. 47–54
  • The book collector Gerhard Altenbourg. Gerhard Altenbourg on the 10th anniversary of his death on December 30, 1999 . In: Marginalien 157 (2000), pp. 3-14
  • as editor: The garment of the book. Historical book covers from the holdings of the Leipzig University Library and the German Museum of Books and Writing of the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig , exhibition catalog Leipzig 2001/02, Leipzig 2002; 2nd revised edition, Leipzig 2003. ISBN 978-3-91010894-3
  • Book lust and book load - from the ninety-nine bibliophiles at Leipziger Platz . In: Herbert Kästner (ed.), "... in the middle of Leipzig, surrounded by his own art treasures and collections of other ..." Contributions to Leipzig book art and bibliophilia in the first third of the 20th century . Leipzig 2004, pp. 9–50

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information in Bernd Heise, Roland März (ed.), Albert Wigand, Nürnberg 2008, p. 272, note 43, and Ilse Zilch-Döpke (ed.), Altenbourg viewed. Artists and authors zu Altenbourg, Berlin 2010, p. 93.
  2. ↑ See Dietmar Debes, Manuscripta & Incunabula. Manuscripts and cradle prints from the University Library, Leipzig 1981.
  3. ↑ Lecture by Dr. Roland Jäger in the Lindenau Museum in Altenburg , accessed on March 28, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Roland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jäger, Roland Otto August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Rautenberg near Altenburg