Wolfgang Milde
Wolfgang Milde (born July 3, 1934 in Allenstein ; † July 23, 2011 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German librarian and manuscript scholar .
Life
Milde studied German, theology and library science in Jena, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. In 1966 he was at the Free University of Berlin to Dr. phil. doctorate, the title of his dissertation is The library catalog of the Murbach monastery from the 9th century .
From 1966 to 1997 he was head of the manuscript department of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel . He played a key role in developing the library, which was the largest in Europe in the 17th century, into a modern, internationally recognized study and research center for the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Among other things, he succeeded in acquiring the Gospel Book of Heinrich the Lion in 1983 .
His international research activities took him to Italy, Poland, Belgium and the USA ( ASW Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 on the subject of The Gospel of Henry the Lion ) and as a visiting professor in Cincinnati , Ohio (1974). In 1979 he was visiting lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and since 1986 honorary professor at the same, and since 1992 also honorary professor at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald . He also held teaching positions at the Technical University of Braunschweig (since 1986) and at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
Milde published numerous works on the history of books, manuscripts and libraries, on the works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and on the Gospel Book of Heinrich the Lion.
literature
- Christian Heitzmann: Obituary Wolfgang Milde (1934-2011) . In: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography . Volume 58, No. 5, 2011, p. 297, DOI: 10.3196 / 186429501158591 , ISSN 0044-2380 (print), ISSN 1864-2950 (online).
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Milde in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Wolfgang Milde in the German Digital Library
- Mild, Wolfgang . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii . (with hyperlink to forward the request to the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog search engine)
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Milde in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- News about the death of Wolfgang Milde in the monthly report of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel - August 2011 . In: Annual archive of the monthly reports 2011 . Online: www.hab.de . Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel , p. 30 of the annual archive or the PDF file, p. 1 of the monthly report August 2011 , chapter SPECIAL NEWS , accessed and received on July 31, 2017 (PDF file, 450 KiB; the page numbers on the pages of the annual archive are incorrect; monthly report of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel - August 2011 ( memento from September 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 115 KiB)).
- Entry on Wolfgang Milde . In: Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar Online . De Gruyter, ISSN 2193-2786 , accessed July 2, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Rosenbach Lectures, 1931 - present . In: www.library.upenn.edu . University of Pennsylvania Libraries, accessed July 2, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mild, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librarian and manuscript scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Allenstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 2011 |
| Place of death | Wolfenbüttel |