Wilhelm Maurer (Librarian)

Wilhelm Maurer (born June 24, 1826 in Darmstadt ; † December 13, 1894 there ) was a German librarian .

Life

Wilhelm Maurer was born in 1826 as the son of a businessman. He was related to the Darmstadt librarian Andreas Schleiermacher , whose wife was a born bricklayer. Wilhelm Maurer attended grammar school in his hometown and after graduating, studied classical philology at the University of Giessen . During his studies he became a member of the Cattia Gießen fraternity in the winter semester of 1845/46 . In 1847 he passed the philological state examination with distinction and became an Accesist at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt. From 1849 he was a teacher in England and returned to Darmstadt in 1855. After the death of Karl August Ludwig Feder in January 1856, he got a job at the Grand Ducal Court Library. He started out as a laborer, became accesist in 1857, secretary in 1859 and first secretary in 1865. In 1873 he was promoted to court librarian. When Philipp Alexander Ferdinand Walther retired in autumn 1885 , he was appointed his successor as director of the court library on October 17, 1885 . He held this office until his death.

The merits of the wall lie primarily in improving the accessibility of the court library for users. He issued new usage regulations and improved the situation in the reading rooms. Wilhelm Maurer died after a short illness in December 1894 at the age of 68 in his hometown. He was born with Charlotte Maurer. Eckhardt married. The sons Berthold and Karl emerged from the marriage.

Honors

Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous

1894: Award of the Royal Crown Order III. class

Publications

About the civil complaints from the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Darmstadt 1855.

literature

Nekrolog, in: Darmstädter Zeitung. dated December 14, 1894.
Erich Zimmermann (Ed.): Electricity through the centuries. Contributions to the history of the Hessian State and University Library Darmstadt. Frankfurt am Man 1967.
University and State Library Darmstadt (Ed.): Neue Mitte (n). The library buildings of the Technical University of Darmstadt. Darmstadt 2014.

Individual evidence

^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießen fraternity 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, O. Cattia. No. 32.

personal data
SURNAME	Maurer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	June 24, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH	December 13, 1894
Place of death	Darmstadt

[1] Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießen fraternity 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, O. Cattia. No. 32.