Wilhelm glasses

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Wilhelm Glasses , complete Wilhelm Heinrich Christian Glasses (born September 8, 1821 in Lübeck ; † May 28, 1907 there ) was a German publisher, antiquarian and librarian.

Life

Wilhelm Gläser was the youngest son of the teacher at the daughter school on the Wehde , which later became the Ernestin School , August Michael Gläser and his wife Catharina Johanna Henriette, née. Rosehr.

He turned to the profession of bookseller. In 1868 he acquired EJ Karow's university bookstore and printer in Dorpat and continued it as W. glasses . Here he mainly published academic writings, school books, guides and cookbooks. He maintained a lending library and was editor of the Dörptschen Zeitung and the New Dorpater Calendar . On January 1, 1875, he sold his shop in Dorpat to LH Schnakenburg in Riga . It was continued as a branch of the Riga House, together with a lithography company and the lending library.

Glasses did not return to Lübeck voluntarily. He tried to continue the tradition of the Dörptschen Zeitung from Lübeck by publishing the Livonian-German booklets of the Dörptschen Zeitung . In the introduction to the first issue he wrote in 1876 “Reasons independent of me prevent my return to Dorpat and force me to temporarily publish the Dörptsche Zeitung in my home town of Lübeck.” He ran a book and second-hand bookshop under the company of W. Gläser here, first in Königstrasse (then no. 843, today no. 121), then from June 1, 1880 at Augustenstrasse 9, a shop that was used as an antiquarian bookshop with a focus on Lübeck literature ( Lubecensien ) almost until his death has passed.

After the death of Friedrich Avé-Lallemant at Christmas 1876, glasses was hired as his successor as a library assistant at the city ​​library . For twelve years he made his literacy and knowledge of books available to the public with great zeal and willingness, and with tireless diligence he took up his pen himself . His first publication of several handwritten sources on Ratekau and Lübeck in November 1806 ( Battle of Lübeck ) he dedicated in 1884 to his brother-in-law, the city archivist Carl Friedrich Wehrmann . His fragments of knowledge of the Lübeck first prints from 1464 to 1524 from 1903 have remained a basic bibliographical work to this day, even if in the introduction to this book and in another book that followed it in 1904 he praised Lübeck as the suitable location for an imperial treasure trove of Germanic books Memories of his work in the city library that were marked by bizarre and bitterness flow into it - but these in turn provide information about the way in which the library was set up, acquired and sold in the last quarter of the 19th century. As early as the end of 1888, increasing blindness had forced Glasses to give up his position at the city library. His last years were characterized by ever greater isolation with increasing age, bitter existential worries and harsh conditions .

Works

  • Livonian-German issues of the Dörptschen Zeitung
Issue 1 1876 ( digitized version , Tartu University Library)
Issue 2 1876 ( digitized version , Tartu University Library)
Issue 3: Three Christmas evenings in the German Hanseatic city of Dorpat. 1893
Book 4: Germany, Nebuchadnezzar and Russian Tender. 1899
  • August Michael glasses, school teacher. With family tree of the glasses family. Lübeck 1879
  • Ratekau and Lübeck in November 1806. Memorial sheet in the records of eyewitnesses. Lübeck: Glasses 1884
  • Fragments to the knowledge of the Lübeck first prints from 1464 to 1524 together with a look back at the later time. Lübeck: Glasses 1903
Digitized , Internet Archive
  • A treasure trove of books from the Germanic tribes in the free imperial and Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Lübeck: Glasses 1904

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the collections of the German Booksellers Association. Volume 2, Leipzig: Börsenverein 1897, p. 178
  2. ^ See the entries in the Tartu University Library catalog
  3. ^ Schnakenburg, Heinrich , in: Severin Corsten (ed.): Lexicon of the entire book system. 2nd edition, Volume 6 Phraseology - Schütz-Hufeland , Stuttgart: Hiersemann 2003 ISBN 9783777203270 , p. 570
  4. ↑ Obituary (lit.)
  5. ↑ Johann Anselm Steiger (ed.): Hamburg: A metropolitan region between early modern times and the Enlightenment. Berlin: de Gruyter 2012 ISBN 9783050057859 , p. 18
  6. ↑ Obituary (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Glasses, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glasses, Wilhelm Heinrich Christian (full name); Stern, Carl von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, antiquarian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1907
Place of death Lübeck