Poznan University Library

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Poznan University Library
Stamp of the former Kaiser Wilhelm Library

The University Library of Posen ( Polish Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Poznaniu ) emerged on April 18, 1919 from what was then the Kaiser Wilhelm Library. Today it is the largest library in Poznan .

history

The library, founded by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1898 , moved into a new building in the neo-renaissance style on November 14, 1902 . Donations from the Royal Library of Berlin as well as private, political and social donors had brought together almost 100,000 German-language volumes in the four years.

As the library of the newly founded Royal Academy in Poznan , it developed into a scientific library from 1903. By 1919 the book inventory had grown to 250,000 volumes. The library had the regional legal deposit right for the Prussian province of Posen . The library also played an important role in the emerging public librarianship. To supply the smaller towns in the province, Rudolf Focke initiated a provincial traveling library, which supplemented and advised the district libraries.

When the province fell to Poland in 1919, the library was Polonized. In 1927 she received the right to deposit copies for the whole of Poland. At the beginning of the Second World War , the library had around 500,000 volumes. During the German occupation in World War II, it was called the State and University Library of Poznan . Since 1945 again under Polish administration, the library was extended by a generous extension in 1952.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 25 "  N , 16 ° 55 ′ 31.8"  E