Wilhelm Fuchs (librarian)

Ernst Adolf Wilhelm Fuchs (born June 21, 1886 in Schmalkalden ; † August 8, 1973 in Göttingen ) was a German librarian and lawyer .

Life

Wilhelm Fuchs, son of the businessman Edmund Fox and the Wilhelmine born Happich, students and high school graduate at the school Bernhardinum in Meiningen , devoted himself subsequently studying law , economics and philosophy at the Universities of Leipzig , Marburg , Munich , Berlin and Zurich , the in 1915 in Marburg with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. iur. completed.

Wilhelm Fuchs began his professional career as a court trainee . At the University Library of Göttingen he completed his library training for the higher library service, in 1918 he passed the library assessor examination. Fuchs then took up an auxiliary librarian position in Göttingen, in 1922 he moved to the University and State Library of Münster as a library councilor , in 1926 in the same position at the Göttingen University Library, and in 1951 he was retired. Wilhelm Fuchs, who was a member of the Prussian Advisory Board for Library Matters from 1924 to 1926, took on a teaching position for legal book studies at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Göttingen in 1946 , where he was appointed adjunct professor in 1950.

Fuchs mainly dealt with questions relating to the subject catalog , in particular the Göttingen real catalog, as well as legal bibliography.

Wilhelm Fuchs, who married Hella, née Tiemann, in 1919, with whom he had a son named Erich, died in 1973 at the age of 87 in Göttingen.

Publications (selection)

• The types of legal propositions: Infinity problems in jurisprudence, Helwing, Hannover, 1920.
• Legal literature guide and bibliographical technique for lawyers: A bibliographical guide, 2nd edition, Universitätsbuchh. F. Coppenrath, Münster (Westphalia), 1925.
• The beginnings of legal bibliography in the 16th century, Frz. Winkler Verlag "Im Buchladen", Linz a. D., 1928.
• Spirit of Jurists: An Anthology, Frz. Winkler Verlag "Im Buchladen", Linz a. D., 1928.
• German law - law u. Justice in 2 millennia of German legal history . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1934
• Ways and wrong ways of legal thought - Small contributions to the theory of law . Ebering, Berlin 1936
• On the theory and practice of the real catalog: studies on academic library regulations; At the same time a contribution to the theory of subject and specialist bibliography, Häntzschel, Göttingen, 1941–1946.
• Logical studies in the field of jurisprudence, Schönhütte, Göttingen-Grone, 1920–1954.
• The systematic real catalog of the University Library of Göttingen: General overview of its main departments, arrangement, volume divisions and signatures, Schönhütte, Göttingen-Grone, 1946.
• Legal book studies. History and system of the legal bibliography. 5th edition of "Legal Literature Guide and Bibliographical Technique for Jurists" that has been completely worked out and brought up to date. Göttingen-Grone, August Schönhütte & Sons, 1953.

literature

• Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who . Volume 17. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973, page 284.
• Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 88.
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 3, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 522, 523.
• Eric Steinhauer : Signing Technique and Legal Encyclopedia. The Göttingen librarian Wilhelm Fuchs (1886–1973) - a biographical consideration and an entertaining harvest of flowers. In: Informations from the Freiburg library system 2001, No. 6, pp. 12-17. ISSN  0943-7258 ( Online ; PDF; 1.4 MB.) (Accessed January 21, 2014.)

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Fuchs Ernst Adolf WILHELM in the register of the University of Zurich