Wilhelm Koner

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Wilhelm Koner 1869

Wilhelm David Koner (born July 6, 1817 in Berlin , † September 29, 1887 ibid) was a German librarian , historian, classical philologist and geographer .

Life

Wilhelm Koner studied classical philology , philosophy and archeology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, a. a. with August Boeckh , Karl Ferdinand Ranke , Franz Ritter , Theodor Panofka , Ernst Heinrich Toelken and Eduard Gerhard . In 1843 he was charged with a thesis on the ancient Tegea to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1844 Koner took up an assistant position at the Royal Library in Berlin. In 1850 he stayed in London for three months to catalog a private coin collection. In the same year he became provisional, in 1851 actual curator of the university library, which was subordinate to the Royal Library. On January 29, 1862 he was awarded the title of professor.

In 1873 Koner was commissioned to run the university library under his own responsibility. The following year he was appointed university librarian. In 1877, under Koner's direction, the Berlin University Library was finally separated from the Royal Library.

The holdings of the university library grew rapidly during Koner's tenure. A catalog from 1839/42 puts it at around 15,000 volumes, in 1890 - three years after Koner's death - there were already 137,000. Koner succeeded in acquiring valuable private libraries as gifts or donations or by buying them. These included the libraries of Gustav Parthey , Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlets , the Brothers Grimm , August Boecks and part of the library of Wilhelm von Humboldt .

Koner's best-known work was the monograph The Lives of the Greeks and Romans , which appeared in five editions during his lifetime and which he wrote together with Ernst Guhl .

Koner was a board member of the Berlin Geography Society and the German African Society initiated by Adolf Bastian . From 1878 he was a corresponding member of the k. k. Geographical Society in Vienna. From 1861 he was editor and editor of the magazine for general geography and from 1865 its continuation, the magazine of the society for geography .

Wilhelm Koner died in Berlin in 1887 at the age of 70 and was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of Hallesches Tor . The grave has not been preserved.

Honors

In 1885 Koner was awarded the Carl-Ritter-Medal of the Gesellschaft für Gekunde zu Berlin in silver. He became a member of the Leopoldina on July 24, 1886 .

The island of Konerøya, discovered in 1868 by the First German North Polar Expedition , one of the Bastian Islands in the Hinlopen Strait ( Spitzbergen ), is named after Wilhelm Koner.

Works (selection)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friese, p. 108.
  2. ↑ Friese, pp. 134-135.
  3. ↑ Joachim Krüger, Antja Sellin: User Guide for the University Library of the Humboldt University of Berlin (Central Library and Branch Offices) (PDF; 23.4 MB) , Series of the University Library of the Humboldt University of Berlin No. 17, Berlin 1974, p 7-8.
  4. ↑ Communications from the k. k. Geographical Society in Vienna 26, 1883, p. VII .
  5. ↑ Leopoldina 23, issue 19-20, 1887 p. 215 .
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 214.
  7. ^ Meeting of January 2nd . In: Negotiations of the Society for Geography in Berlin . 13, 1886, pp. 44f.
  8. ↑ Leopoldina 23, issue 19-20, 1887 p. 168 .
  9. ↑ Konerøya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Koner, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koner, Wilhelm David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, historian, philologist and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1887
Place of death Berlin