Samuel Quiccheberg

Portrait of Samuel Quiccheberg ( Hans Mielich , ca.1556)

The Belgian author Samuel Quiccheberg (* 1529 in Antwerp ; † 1567 in Munich ), art historical advisor to Albrecht V , was the founder of museology in Germany.

His treatise Inscriptiones vel Tituli Theatri Amplissimi (1565) mainly refers to the Munich Kunstkammer , which was created at the same time. In the treatise he describes a concept for an ideal museum ("Theatrum"), drawing inspiration from the work of the theater scholar Giulio Camillo , who in his L'idea del theatro (Florence 1550) had tried to create a mnemotechnical system , after which one can remember “all things in the world” at the same time.

His most important idea, however, was to expound the importance of the art and wonder chambers for education .

Quiccheberg also worked as a librarian in Johann Jakob Fugger's library . When Duke Albrecht V bought the library for his Munich court library in 1871 , both the librarian Quiccheberg and his system were taken over.

literature

Harriet Roth (Hrsg.): The beginning of museum teaching in Germany. The treatise "Inscriptiones vel Tituli Theatri Amplissimi" by Samuel Quiccheberg. Latin - German. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-05-003490-4 (also: Berlin, Humboldt University, dissertation).
Klaus Minges: The Collection of the Early Modern Age. Criteria of order and specialization (= museums - past and present. Vol. 3). Lit, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-8258-3607-X (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, dissertation, 1993).
Helmut Zäh: Quicchelberg, Samuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 44 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Samuel Quiccheberg . In: Deutsche-Biographie.de
Stefan Laube: Description of Samuel Quicchelberg's Inscriptiones Vel Titvli Theatri (PDF)
Stephan Brakensiek: Samuel Quicchelberg: Founding father or single perpetrator? On the intention of the Inscriptiones vel Tituli Theatri amplissimi (1565) and their reception in European collections between 1550 and 1820 . In: metaphorik.de, 14/2008 (PDF)
Manuela Kahle: An investigation into Giulio Camillo's L`idea del theatro and Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones vel tituli theari amplissimi . Master's thesis, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 2005 (PDF)

Individual evidence

↑ Uwe Jochum: Small Library History (= Reclams Universal Library . No. 17667 ). 3. Edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-017667-2 , pp. 105 .

personal data
SURNAME	Quiccheberg, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian author and founder of museum teaching in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH	1529
PLACE OF BIRTH	Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH	1567
Place of death	Munich

[1] Uwe Jochum: Small Library History (= Reclams Universal Library . No. 17667 ). 3. Edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-017667-2 , pp. 105 .