Willi Gober

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Willi Göber (born December 23, 1899 in Hanover , † July 1, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German librarian .

Life

Willi Göber attended the municipal grammar school in Halle (Saale) and after graduating from school (May 1917) began military service in the First World War . After a wound that made him unfit, he returned to Halle and studied classical philology and linguistics at the university there . On May 23, 1924, he received his doctorate degree with a dissertation on the prose rhythm in Theodoret's church history. phil. PhD . The work received the rating “summa cum laude” and was praised by the professional public after its publication (1926). On July 25, 1924, Göber passed the state examination with distinction.

After graduating, Göber entered the Prussian library service. He worked at the University Library in Halle , initially as an unskilled worker, and from April 1, 1926 as a volunteer in the scientific service. At the same time he held exercises in the philological seminar at the University of Halle. On October 22, 1927, he passed the library examination in Berlin.

On January 1, 1928, Göber was transferred to the State and University Library in Breslau , where he was entrusted with cataloging the manuscripts. In more than ten years of work, Göber created a catalog that was to appear in the series Directory of Manuscripts in the German Empire . During Göber's lifetime, however, only the first delivery appeared (1938). The second volume, the manuscript already completed, reached the Soviet Union in the wake of the war and was returned to the University of Wroclaw , where the librarian Konrad Jażdżewski carefully revised it. The volume was published in 1982 under the title Catalogus manu scriptorum codicum medii aevi latinorum signa 180-260 comprehendens . In addition to working in the library, Göber also gave lectures as a lecturer in the field of classical philology (from the winter semester 1929/30).

Towards the end of the Second World War , Göber fled Breslau and moved to Halle, where he took part in the reintegration of the relocated book collections and taught classical philology as a lecturer from the 1950/51 winter semester. On April 1, 1952, Göber was appointed director of the university library of the Humboldt University in Berlin . Göber endeavored to expand and modernize the library there. Among other things, he set up an interlibrary loan system to which over 1,300 institutions ultimately belonged. He also commissioned a directory of the magazines and newspapers from the Soviet Union in the university library and its faculty and institute libraries from 1945–1959 and, together with Friedrich Herneck, issued a three-volume commemorative publication for the university anniversary (1960) and the scientific journal of the Humboldt University Berlin out.

In Berlin, Göber also took part in academic teaching. From the winter semester of 1952/53 he was a lecturer in classical philology. On January 31, 1953 he was appointed professor of library science. On October 14, 1954, he was elected a full member of the Classical Studies Section of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . From 1954 he also managed the chair of Greek Philology in full. On January 1, 1961, he was appointed full professor of Greek language and literature. At the same time he continued to teach library science as a professor with a teaching assignment.

Fonts (selection)

  • Quaestiones rhythmicae imprimis ad Theodoreti historiam ecclesiasticam pertinentes . Berlin 1926 (dissertation)
  • A parchment code of Dionysius Thrax from late antiquity. P. Hal. 55a . In: Medieval manuscripts. Ceremony for the 60th birthday of Hermann Degering . Leipzig 1926, pp. 111-118
  • List of manuscripts in the German Empire: The manuscripts of the State and University Library in Breslau . Volume 1, Leipzig 1938
  • Bernhard Weissenborn. Directory of his scientific publications . Leipzig 1951
  • From the work of the academic libraries in the German Democratic Republic . Leipzig 1955
  • with Friedrich Herneck : Research and work. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Humboldt University in Berlin 1810–1960 . Three volumes, Berlin 1960
  • The university library. Main features of their development. (In: Contributions to the history of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Scientific journal of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Supplement for the anniversary year IX, 1959/60. , Berlin 1961, pp. 1–14)

literature

  • Erich Stietz, Walter Karl: In memoriam Willi Göber . In: Central Journal for Libraries . Volume 75 (1961), pp. 390-393

Individual evidence

  1. It is digitized in the BCUWr .

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