Stefan Feyerabend

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Stefan Feyerabend (born May 28, 1932 in Heilbronn ; † June 13, 2018 in Hamburg ) was a German paper collector and expert.

Life

Stefan Feyerabend was a descendant of the Rauch family, who founded the Gebr. Rauch paper factory in Heilbronn. Among his ancestors were Sigmund Feyerabend and Moriz von Rauch , his father was Reinhard Feyerabend.

During his childhood he saw the factory destroyed by the Allied bombing during World War II. It was then continued as a paper wholesaler and eventually became part of the Papier Union .

Stefan Feyerabend graduated from high school in Heilbronn and then became a business graduate and paper wholesaler. He worked in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg , among others . In 1995 he ended his professional activity at Papier Union GmbH & Co. KG in Hamburg and turned to paper history. At first he was primarily interested in the history of the German fine paper wholesaling, from which numerous donations for the paper history collections of the German National Library resulted . In 1998 his work 180 years of paper wholesale, 90 years of the German association was published. He took part in numerous meetings of the German Working Group for Paper History and the International Working Group of Paper Historians (IPH) and became an assessor on the IPH board. In 1996 he published, meanwhile specialized in watermarks, the article Manufacturer's brands and trade marks in the distribution of fine paper in Germany in their historical development . In 2004 he gave a lecture on machine paper watermarks in Poland ; in the same year he published the essay on the position of watermarks in machine papers . It is thanks to Feyerabend that the dandy roll documentation from Andreas Kufferath was added to the collections of the German Museum of Books and Writing . He created an extensive machine paper watermark collection and a collection of normal papers with watermarks, built up a database for this purpose and then initiated a complete digitization of the papers. His original papers are now part of the paper history collection of the German Museum of Books and Writing. The catalog of the European watermark portal memoryofpaper.eu lists Feyerabend's holdings under SFH (for “Stefan Feyerabend Hamburg”). Feyerabend, who wrote numerous works on the history of paper and was a legal knight of the Order of St. John , died after a long illness and left behind his wife Hanna, née. Mussäus. Stefan Feyerabend was buried in the main cemetery in Heilbronn .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 50 years of EHO. Heilbronner Tag 1958 , Verlag Heilbronner Voice, Heilbronn 1958, p. 31
  2. ↑ a b Obituaries , on: www.trauerundgedenken.de , accessed on December 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ Frieder Schmidt, Stefan Feyerabend (1932–2018) , on: www.paperhistory.org/Archive/memoriam/feyerabend.pdf www.paperhistory.org.
personal data
SURNAME Feyerabend, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feyerabend, Stefan Georg Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German machine paper watermark specialist and collector
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2018
Place of death Hamburg