Walter Plöbst

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Walter Plöbst (born September 12, 1884 in Sonthofen , † September 7, 1972 in Munich ) was a German classical philologist and librarian .

Life

Walter Plöbst attended elementary school in Munich and from 1894 to 1903 the Maximiliansgymnasium . From 1903 to 1907 he studied Classical Philology and Ancient History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1906 and 1907 he passed the two sections of the philological teaching examination. From October 20, 1907, he was an intern at the Munich University Library for ten months , then from August 20, 1908 at the Munich Court and State Library , where he passed the specialist examination for academic library service in 1909. In 1910 he was with a dissertation on the rhetorical technique of amplificatio Dr. phil. PhD ; the work was inspired by Engelbert Drerup and supervised by Albert Rehm .

As a librarian, Plöbst first worked at the provincial library in Neuburg an der Donau , then from January 1, 1912 as custodian at the Royal Library of Bamberg , from June 16, 1921 at the Court and State Library in Munich and from April 1, 1922 as State librarian at the University Library of Würzburg . On October 1, 1923, he moved to the University Library in Munich, where he spent the rest of his career. From 1928 he was deputy to the library director Adolf Hilsenbeck . After his retirement, Plöbst was acting head of the university library from 1938 to 1940, and also from 1945 after Joachim Kirchner was removed from office . On May 1, 1946, Plöbst was appointed library director and remained in this position until his retirement on October 1, 1952.

Plöbst was a long-time member of the Association of German Librarians , of which he was treasurer from 1926 to 1928 and deputy chairman from 1948 to 1949.

Plöbst came out with only a few scientific publications. Commissioned by Wilhelm Kroll , he wrote an article about the Greek orator Lysias for Pauly's Real Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity (RE).

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literature

  • Ladislaus Buzás: History of the Munich University Library . Wiesbaden 1972, p. 240
  • Ladislaus Buzás: Walter Plöbst † . In: Bavarian Library Forum . Volume 1 (1973), p. 76
personal data
SURNAME Poor, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonthofen
DATE OF DEATH 7th September 1972
Place of death Munich