Axel von Harnack

Friedrich Hermann Julius Axel Harnack, ( born 12 September 1895 in Wilmersdorf, † June 17, 1974 in Tübingen) from 1914 von Harnack was a German librarian, historian and philologist.

Family

He came from an East Prussian family, whose direct master series begins (1832 †), owner of a men's tailor business in St. Petersburg with Carl Gottlieb Harnack, and was the youngest child of the theologian and science organizer Adolf von Harnack and his wife Amalie Thiersch ( 1858-1937 ). The active in the resistance against Nazism brothers Arvid ( lawyer) and Falk Harnack (director) were his cousins.

Adolf von Harnack was raised together with his five children, including the son Axel on March 22, 1914 in Berlin with diploma on June 9, 1914 in the Prussian nobility.

Axel von Harnack married on September 8, 1924 in Food Hedwig Thienemann ( born May 20, 1901 in Essen, † August 25 1990 in Tübingen), the daughter of the high-school professor Dr. phil. Thienemann Wilhelm and Bertha Baedeker.

Life

After attending school at Bismarck High School in Berlin- Wilmersdorf studied Harnack History and Romance in Freiburg and Berlin, where he in 1920 with a dissertation on Friedrich Daniel Bassermann and the German revolution of 1848/ 49 for Dr. phil. received his doctorate. He then joined the academic library service and auxiliary librarian in 1923, 1927 Digital Libraries at the Prussian State Library. From 1927 he was at the library of the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute. Harnack in 1944 was seconded to the University Library of Tübingen, where he was promoted in 1956 (with a catch-up effect on October 1, 1937) to the Library Director. In 1960 he retired, but remained a lecturer in library science and historiography at the University of Tübingen, where he had taught since his habilitation in 1947.

Harnack wrote a biography of his older brother, the Prussian government president and resistance fighter Ernst von Harnack (1888-1945), and was editor and publisher of his father, Adolf von Harnack estate. In addition, he published in 1947 his memories of the process 1942/43, against his cousin, the resistance fighters Arvid Harnack and his wife Mildred.

Writings

  • Arvid and Mildred Harnack. Memories of their process 1942/43. In: Halbmonatsschrift The presence. No. 26/ 27, Freiburg, January 31, 1947 ( online; PDF).
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