Lectern

As a panel is called a table with slanted surface or a kind of attachment for such a table, which is used primarily for reading and writing. But even a stand with a sloping surface is called the desk ( music stand, conductor's podium, lectern ).

Etymology

The word comes from the Latin pulpitum meaning " frame boards, planks scaffolding ". Teachers tables in the classrooms is called since the 1950s to today as consoles, although in many cases the charakterisitische slope is no longer available.

History

The console has been around since the early Middle Ages mostly for liturgical purposes in use. In the churches it serves in the choir stalls and in the places of the clergy or on the sideboard for placing the liturgical books, especially the Missal and was mostly associated with the seats ( lectern ). It often serves as a prie-dieu on which the faithful kneel to pray. Also the console is known as a portable device for presentation of the Gospel in the liturgy. These portable consoles were mostly made ​​of wood, made ​​of rare ( in the Gothic period with rich carving ) made ​​of bronze and marble.

A special form of the desk is the so-called eagle lectern dar. It is a lectern in the form of an eagle, the symbol of John the Evangelist. The outspread wings of the eagle carrying the book. They were used in the Romanesque and Gothic. In the Romanesque they are found in Italy in pulpits, as free-standing, made ​​of brass furniture in the Rhineland and the Netherlands until the end of the Gothic.

In secular use, the panel usually serves as a desk, before you work sitting or standing ( standing desk ). On lecterns stands for the speakers often a glass of water ready. Today, they are usually equipped with microphones. Many consoles are adjustable in height.