Great reading party

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In 1900, the Museum Society moved into a luxuriously designed floor in Theaterstrasse 14 of the Langeschen Foundation

The Great Reading Society , also known as “ The Museum ” and Museum Club , was the most important of several reading societies in the former royal seat of Hanover . It was founded in response to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution by 6 city dignitaries , including the Hanoverian Councilor Georg Friedrich Brandes , on October 20, 1799. The aim of the society was, instead of the so-called literary societies, which was heavily criticized by Brandes in particular, "to bring friends of literature closer to one another and to maintain social contacts."

history

In the first few years in particular, the members of the Great Reading Society systematically built up their own “ society library ”.

In 1817 there was an internal split into the "reading society with library" and the "museum society", which acted as more of a society club for upscale circles.

In 1886 the "Reading Society with Library" dissolved and the library was transferred to the Council Library , which was later integrated into the Hanover City Library .

The “Museum Society”, on the other hand, took its seat in 1900 at Theaterstrasse 14 , also known as the Langesche Foundation , on a floor luxuriously designed by the architect Albrecht Haupt . The museum society was dissolved in 1967.

Personalities

Well-known members were

literature

  • Ernst Mühry : History of the Museum Society in Hanover 1789 to 1905. According to the files of the society and the Kgl. State Archives compiled , Hanover: Schrader, 1905
  • Henning Rischbieter : Hannoversches Lesebuch, or: What was written, printed and read in and about Hanover , Volume 1, 1650-1850, 3rd edition, Hanover: Schlütersche, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-039-0 , p. 158, 166, 196

Archival material

Archival material from and about the Great Reading Society or the Museum Society can be found, for example

  • in the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hanover location)
    • as a file for the period from 1888 to 1967 with the title Museumsgesellschaft in Hannover . This includes, among other things, the granting of the status of a legal person, the association's statutes from 1889 and 1900, lists of members, records of destruction and losses in World War II; Property matters and evidence of the dissolution in 1967. Archive signature NLA HA Nds. 120 Hanover Acc. 46/74 No. 16/1
    • Member directories for the period from 1928 to 1944, archive signature NLA HA Nds. 120 Hanover Acc. 46/74 No. 16/2
    • Files with, among other things, accounts for the period 1943 to 1961, archive signature NLA HA Nds. 120 Hanover Acc. 46/74 No. 16/3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Ludwig Hoerner : Reading Society, Große L. , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 401; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Theaterstrasse 14 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 203
  3. ^ Henkel: Libraries and Lending Libraries , in Monika Estermann , Reinhard Wittmann (Red.): Archive for the history of the book industry , ed. from the historical commission of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels eV, Volume 49, Frankfurt am Main: Buchhändlervereinigung GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-7657-2091-7 , pp. 250ff .; here: p. 251; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ a b Compare the information about the Arcinsys Lower Saxony Bremen archive information system
  5. ↑ Compare the information and cross-references in the database of the joint union catalog
  6. ↑ Compare the information about Arcinsys Lower Saxony Bremen
  7. ↑ Compare the information about Arcinsys Lower Saxony Bremen