Wilhelm Erman

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Wilhelm Adolf Erman (born June 13, 1850 in Berlin , † May 19, 1932 in Bonn ) was a German librarian and geographer.

Life

Wilhelm Erman was the son of the physicist Georg Adolf Erman and brother of the Egyptologist Adolf Erman and the lawyer Heinrich Erman . After attending the French grammar school in Berlin, he studied geography, classical philology, Sanskrit, history and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and Leipzig University from 1868 to 1872 . Like all his brothers he was a member of the Leipzig fraternity Germania . In 1872 he received his doctorate in Leipzig .

In 1874 he began his librarianship at the Royal Library in Berlin . In 1879 he became curator there, and in 1886 librarian. In 1889 he took over the management of the Berlin university library - initially on a temporary basis, then finally from 1890. From there he moved to the University Library in Breslau as director in 1901 . In 1907 he finally came to the Bonn University Library , which he managed until his retirement in 1920. Along with Karl Dziatzko , Otto Hartwig and Fritz Milkau, Erman was one of the most influential advisors to Friedrich Althoff in his reform of the library system in Prussia. For his part, Althoff initiated and promoted the monumental bibliography of German universities . Carl Manfred Frommel wanted to dare to re-issue the “huge title work”, but died in 1938. From 1878 to 1889 Erman was also a scientist in geography and published the reports of the African Society in Germany .

Erman married Klara Rathenow and they had six children together.

Fonts

  • De titulorum ionocorum dialecto . In: Studies on Greek and Latin grammar, Vol. 5 (1872), pp. 251-310 (Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 1872).
  • About the establishment of a German Librarian's Day. Lecture given on Sep 26 1899 in the library section at the Philologists' Meeting in Bremen. In: Gutenberg yearbook . Vol. 80 (2005), pp. 185-199.
  • with Ewald Horn : Bibliography of German universities , 3 volumes. Leipzig 1904-1905 ( Digitalisat the UB Rostock ); Reprinted by Olms, Hildesheim 1965.
  • History of the Bonn University Library (1818–1901) . Hall a. P. 1919; Reprint Kraus Reprint and Harrassowitz, Nendeln / Liechtenstein and Wiesbaden 1969 ( digital copy from ULB Bonn ).
  • Black red gold and black and white red . Frankfurt am Main 1925.
  • Animal magnetism in Prussia before and after the Wars of Liberation. Oldenbourg, Munich and Berlin 1925 (supplement 4 of the historical journal).
  • Paul Erman - a Berlin scholar's life 1764-1851 . Verlag des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins, Berlin 1927 (writings of the Verein für die Geschichte Berlins, 53).
  • Memories . Böhlau, Cologne 1994 (publications from the archives of Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 38), ed. by Hartwig Lohse, ISBN 3-412-08493-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ [Hirschfeld, Adolf / Franke, August]: History of the Leipzig Burschenschaft Germania 1859-1879. Ceremony for the twentieth foundation festival on July 25, 26, 27 and 28, 1879 . o. O. o. J. (Leipzig 1879), p. 69, no. 176
  2. ^ Knaake, Emil / Thiele, Wolfgang / Tornius, Valerian / Leonhardt, Hans (arr.): History of the Leipzig fraternity Germania 1818-1928 . Leipzig undated (1928), p. 211.
  3. ↑ Harald Lönnecker : "The topic was and remained without parallel appearance in German historical research". The Burschenschaftliche Historische Kommission (BHK) and the Gesellschaft für Burschenschaftliche Geschichtsforschung e. V. (GfbG) (1898 / 1909-2009). A history of people, institutions and science (presentations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, vol. 18), Heidelberg 2009, p. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Erman, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erman, Wilhelm Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1932
Place of death Bonn