Willy Lüdtke

Willy Lüdtke (born November 4, 1875 in Köslin ; † June 5, 1945 in Munich ) was a German librarian and Protestant theologian.

Life

Lüdtke studied theology and Christian archeology and received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1897 . In 1898 he joined the Berlin State Library as a volunteer , where he became an assistant in 1900. In 1902 he moved to Kiel University Library , where he stayed for 16 years. Here he worked on the creation of a new systematic card catalog. In 1918 he returned to the State Library in Berlin for a short time before he worked at the State and University Library in Hamburg the following year . He stayed there until his retirement in 1943. In 1919 he received the title of professor. In the Hamburg library he was in charge of the theology and oriental studies and was particularly dedicated to the German Bible Archive, the holdings of which were completely destroyed in the Second World War.

Fonts (selection)

• Studies on the miniatures of the Viennese Genesis , Greifswald: Bindewald 1897 (Greifswald, Univ., Diss., 1897).
• together with Theodor Nissen: The grave inscription of Aberkios: their tradition and their text , Leipzig: Teubner 1910.
• The German Bible from the 15th to 18th centuries. Exhibition to celebrate the Jubilee of the Lutheran New Testament 1522, September 21, 1922. vd State and University Library of Hamburg , Hamburg 1922.
• The worship of the holy Anshar . In: Writings of the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History, Vol. 8. (1926/28), pp. 123–162.
• The Uffenbach Gospel Harmony . In: Orientalia Hamburgensia: Festgabe; presented to the participants of the German Orientalist Day Hamburg, Hamburg: State and University Library 1926, pp. 59–83.

literature

• Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , pp. 203-204.