Wilhelm Totok

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Wilhelm Totok (born September 12, 1921 in Groß-St.-Nikolaus im Banat ; † May 2, 2017 in Leverkusen ) was a German author , editor and librarian .

Life

Totok was born as the eldest son of the businessman Andreas Totok and his wife Luisa, b. Loch, born in the Banat. As this part of the old Austria-Hungary fell to Romania after the First World War, he grew up trilingual: Hungarian from his father, German from his mother, and Romanian as the state language. His parents sent him to a German-speaking school in the Banat capital, Timișoara , where he graduated from high school in 1940 with the Romanian state high school diploma. Totok studied German, classical philology, history and philosophy at the universities of Marburg / Lahn and Vienna . After the state examination and doctorate, he was a librarian in Frankfurt am Main from 1949 (from 1951 at the German Library ) and from 1957 as a library councilor at the University Library of Marburg . From 1962 to 1986 Totok was director of the Lower Saxony State Library (today Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library ) in Hanover.

From 1973 to 1975 Totok was first chairman of the Association of German Librarians (VDB) and from 1977 to 1980 first chairman of the German Library Association (DBV).

Totok became widely known as a bibliographer through the handbook of bibliographical reference works he founded , the 1st edition of which appeared in 1953 and was published in 6 editions by 1985, as well as the extensive handbook of the history of philosophy (6 volumes, 1964–1990), which appears as a standard work since 1997 in the second, newly edited edition.

A commemorative publication in Totok's honor was published in 1986 under the title Libraries in the Service of Science , which also contains a list of publications. He was the holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and the Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit (1st class).

Publications (selection)

  • Manual of the History of Philosophy. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main.
    • Volume 1. Antiquity: Indian, Chinese, Greco-Roman Philosophy. Among employees by Horst-Dieter Finke and Helmut Schröer. 2., completely reworked. and exp. Edition. 1997, ISBN 3-465-02871-6 .
    • Volume 2. Middle Ages. Among employees by Hiltraut Heiderich and Helmut Schröer. 1973, ISBN 3-465-00985-1 .
    • Volume 3. Renaissance. Among employees by Erwin Schadel, Hans-Peter Schramm and Helmut Schröer. 1980, ISBN 3-465-00989-4 .
    • Volume 4. Early Modern Times. 17th century. Among employees by Erwin Schadel, Ingrid Dietsch and Helmut Schöer. 1981, ISBN 3-465-00991-6 .
    • Volume 5. Bibliography of the 18th and 19th centuries. Among employees by Horst-Dieter Finke, Hans-Henner Hackstein, Helmut Schröer and Ingrid Dietrich. 1986, ISBN 3-465-01665-3 .
    • Volume 6. Bibliography 20th Century. Among employees by Horst-Dieter Finke, Hans-Henner Hackstein and Helmut Schröer. 1990, ISBN 3-465-01883-4 .
  • with Rolf Weitzel: Handbook of bibliographical reference works. 2nd Edition. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1959
    • Volume 1: General bibliographies and general reference works. 6th edition. 1984, ISBN 3-465-01592-4 .
    • Volume 2: Specialized bibliographies and subject-related reference works. 6th edition. 1985, ISBN 3-465-01594-0 .

literature

  • Reinhard Oberschelp, Karl-Heinz Weimann (Hrsg.): Libraries in the service of science. Festschrift for Wilhelm Totok for his 65th birthday on September 12th. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-465-01735-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://wilhelm.totok.de/index.htm
  2. ^ Wilhelm Totok: Obituary notice. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. May 6, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Totok, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Great St. Nicholas , Banat
DATE OF DEATH 2nd May 2017
Place of death Hanover