Wilhelm Brambach

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Wilhelm Brambach

Wilhelm Brambach (born December 17, 1841 in Bonn , † February 26, 1932 in Karlsruhe ) was a German classical philologist , music historian and librarian .

Life

Wilhelm Brambach, son of the late 1890 piano tuner and organ builder Franz Jacob Brambach and brother of choral conductors and composers Caspar Joseph Brambach , studied after high school at the University of Bonn Classical Philology at Friedrich Ritschl and musicology at Heinrich Breidenstein . In 1864 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Roman consulate .

As a result, Brambach was initially employed as an assistant at the Bonn University Library from 1862 to 1866 . Subsequently, in 1866 he became head (senior librarian) of the Freiburg University Library . At the same time, he taught at the University of Freiburg as an associate professor of classical philology, and since 1868 as a full professor. In 1872, Brambach was entrusted with the management of the Badische Hof- und Landesbibliothek in succession to Johann Christoph Döll , which he held until his retirement in 1904. Even after that, he remained head of the State Library's coin cabinet until 1921. Brambach died on February 26, 1932 at the age of 90 in Karlsruhe.

Act

Brambach's philological research concentrated mainly on the areas of epigraphy , rhythm , metrics and orthography . From a music-historical point of view, the studies of medieval music theory and practice as well as the history of the Reichenau singing school made during his time at the Badische Landesbibliothek based on the Reichenau manuscripts are significant . Although the details were outdated, his research based on exact textual criticism made a valuable contribution to the knowledge of medieval music tracts, for example by Berno and Hermann von Reichenau , and church choral music , especially Gregorian chant .

As library manager, Brambach demanded the independence of the librarian profession after he had learned at the University of Freiburg that librarianship and teaching post had become increasingly incompatible. In Karlsruhe he reorganized the Baden court and state library as well as the associated coin collection, whereby he also referred to the American concept of the public library . In 1872 the library was incorporated into the state administration and subordinated to the department of the Ministry of the Interior. In addition, it was renamed the Grand Ducal Court and State Library. In 1873, Brambach organized the relocation of the library from the Karlsruhe Palace to the collection building on Friedrichsplatz and ensured that the administration was comprehensively modernized, among other things. a. for a systematic listing of the inventory according to a classification of 24 main groups and 143 subgroups, for the provision of an alphabetical card catalog as well as for a modern usage regulation.

The library catalogs printed from 1875 onwards remain linked to Wilhelm Brambach's name. With their publication as regular new access registers, he successfully tried to win over users who did not live in the royal seat of the Grand Ducal Court and State Library.

Publications (selection)

  • De columnis miliariis ad Rhenum repertis commentarius . With a foreword by Friedrich Ritschl . Georgi, Bonn 1865 ( digitized version ).
  • The end of the Bonn philology school. JG Schmitz, Cologne 1865 ( digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Ritschl and Philology in Bonn . Teubner, Leipzig 1865 ( digitized version ).
  • Trajan on the Rhine and the forgery of inscriptions in Trier: open letter to LJF Janssen . Friderichs, Elberfeld 1866 ( digitized version ).
  • Corpus inscriptionum Rhenanarum. Praefatus est Fridericus Ritschelius . Friderichs, Elberfeld 1867 ( digitized version ).
  • The redesign of the Latin orthography in relation to the school . Teubner, Leipzig 1868 ( digitized version ).
  • Metric studies on Sophocles . Teubner, Leipzig 1869 ( digitized version ).
  • Rhythmic and metric studies . Teubner, Leipzig 1871 ( digitized version ).
  • Help booklet for Latin spelling . Teubner, Leipzig 1872 ( digitized version ).
  • The Grand Ducal Court and State Library in Carlsruhe 1875 . [Karlsruhe], 1875 ( digitized version ).
  • Hermanni Contracti musica . Teubner, Leipzig 1884 ( digitized version ).
  • Exhibition of the Grand Ducal Court and State Library for the VII German Geographers' Day in Karlsruhe. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, Vol. 4, 1887, pp. 425–441 ( digitized version ).
  • The Reichenau Singing School. Contributions to the history of learning and the knowledge of medieval music manuscripts . Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1888 ( digitized version ).
  • Meninski on Turkish manuscripts from the Grand Ducal Court and State Library in Karlsruhe . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 7 (1890), pp. 303-307 ( digitized version ).
  • The Historia de sancta Afra martyre, believed to be lost, and the Salve Regina by Hermannus Contractus . Groos, Karlsruhe 1892 ( digitized version ).
  • The manuscripts of the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe . Vol. 1 (1970) History and holdings of the collection, new print with bibliograph. Nachtr., Wiesbaden 1970 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Karl Preisendanz : Wilhelm Brambach: on his 85th birthday. In: The pyramid. Vol. 15, 1926, No. 51, p. 235 f.
  • Ceremony to mark Wilhelm Brambach's 85th birthday on December 17, 1926 / presented by the Badischer Münzkabinett and the Gesellschaft für Münzkunde in Karlsruhe . - Karlsruhe: Müller, 1926. - 30 pp.
  • Paul Ladewig : Wilhelm Brambach. In: Central Journal for Libraries . Vol. 49, 1932, pp. 82-84.
  • Ulrich Weber: Wilhelm Brambach and the reorganization of the Grand Ducal Badische Hof- und Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe (1874–1904) (= work from the librarian training institute of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Vol. 3). Librarian Training Institute, Cologne 1954.
  • Ulrich Weber (Ed.): Four unpublished letters by Wilhelm Brambach to Carl Dziatzko from the property of the Göttingen University Library or: Joke and abuse game between scholars. In: Kölner Schule - Festgabe for the 60th birthday of Rudolf Juchhoff. - Cologne: Greven, 1955. - pp. 169–178.
  • Manfred Krebs :  Brambach, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 513 ( digitized version ).
  • Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 (= Journal for Libraries and Bibliography . Special Issue 42). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 32 f.
  • Gerhard Römer: "Freely accessible to all nationals". The court and state library in Karlsruhe in the 19th century. In: Jörg Fligge , Alois Klotzbücher (Ed.): City and Library. Literature supply as a communal task in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, pp. 421-450. (Wolfenbüttel writings on the history of the book industry; 8).
  • Ludger Syré (ed.): Between library and science. Wilhelm Brambach's letters to Karl Dziatzko and other colleagues . Logos Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8325-1889-9 . (Berlin works on library and information science; 24).

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Brambach  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 1872–1904: Wilhelm Brambach. In: Website of the Baden State Library. Badische Landesbibliothek , accessed on February 13, 2018 .
  2. ^ Julia Freifrau Hiller von Gaertringen: Historical catalog of the Badische Landesbibliothek. In: Website of the Baden State Library. Badische Landesbibliothek , accessed on February 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Brambach, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, music historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1932
Place of death Karlsruhe