Friedrich Adolf Ebert

Friedrich Adolf Ebert ( born July 9, 1791 in diving, † November 13, 1834 in Dresden ) was a German librarian and bibliographer.

Life

He studied in 1808 at the University of Leipzig, first theology and later philology, and his PhD in 1812 in Wittenberg. From 1814 he worked in librarianship. From 1823 he headed the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, from 1825 until his death ( he died as a result of a fall from a ladder books ), he was director of the Royal Public Library of Dresden.

Ebert campaigned for the recognition of an independent library profession and developed requirements for the training ( The formation of the librarian, Leipzig 1820). He has also been scientifically active, so he worked from 1819 to the Monumenta Historica Germaniae with.

His most extensive work is the General Bibliography Bibliographical Lexicon ( 2 volumes, 1821-1830 ), in which he tried to capture all important for the scientific work of art. He regarded it as a task of a librarian as comprehensively educated to distinguish between important and unimportant. In his preface he writes:

" The bibliography is in her farther extent of the Codex diplomaticus Literar history, the surest and altimeter of literary culture and activity ( ... ) In the above expansion, it recognizes no other limit than that which it either the pure scientific value or sets the historical interest of the literary productions of all ages and nations. What lacks both, perhaps even have a local or even specielleres interest; but it belongs to the bibliography as a science no longer present, and it was, even apart from the insurmountable express obstacles unmistakable bullshit when some scholars dreamed of a general bibliography, in which no Compendium, no pamphlet and no verses collection should be ignored. "

Even if later bibliographers did not share this approach, his bibliography is true for their thorough and careful preparation as a milestone.

His son Adolf Ebert was a literary historian and linguist.

Together with Martin Schrettinger applies Ebert as the founder of Library Science.