Georg Kloss

Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss - often Kloss - (* July 31, 1787 in Frankfurt am Main, † February 10, 1854 ) was a German physician, collector of books, in particular, bibliographies, and historian.

Life

Lump was stopped by his father, a surgeon, to study medicine, which he ( a member of the country team Suevia I) began at the University of Heidelberg and graduated at the University of Göttingen. In Göttingen he founded on 14 January 1809 other students initially a country team of the Rhineland, which he joined in early February 1809 the Corps Hannovera. After the MD thesis in Göttingen in 1810, he began his medical practice at the Rochus Hospital in Frankfurt am Main, where he became about 1817 as the successor of Johann Christian Ehrmann. The medical work soon entered into the background of his other, diverse interests, for which he became known. More than through his work as a doctor, he was known for his distinctive bibliographic collecting. His collection of Paläotypen was of exceptional size and went with his death at the Frankfurt City Library.

A part of his library he left in 1835 to auction on the basis of a published at Sotheby 's in London printed auction catalog in English (see also the note at Bernhard Adelmann of Adelmannsfelden ), and also used in the subsequent period the price differential between Germany and England by Books and Libraries ankaufte low in Germany and let market in London.

Lump in 1805 was taken at the age of 18 years as a so-called " Lufton " ( name of a Masonic Son ) in the lodge "Zur unity " in Frankfurt for Freemasons. 1828 his brothers elect him as master of the chair. In 1836 he was Grand Master of the Eclectic Federal. With several releases from 1842 on the history of Freemasonry, he became the founder of the Masonic historical research in Germany. His estate went to the Masonic Grand Master of Masons, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, the archived him in The Hague and Freemasons made ​​available today the Bibliotheca Klossiana the Cultural Masonic Center " Prins Frederik ".

Digitized books from his collection with ex -libris notice

  • Frankfurt city law Reformation of 1509
  • Albertus Magnus Liber aggregationis, seu Liber de secretorum virtutibus herbarum lapidum et animalium
  • Annals of the Lodge for unity, Frankfurt aM 1842, reprint Graz, 1972 ( Google Books)
  • Bibliography of Freemasonry, Sauerland, Frankfurt aM 1844, reprint, 1970 ( Google Books)
  • Freemasonry detected in its true meaning from the old and genuine documents of the stonemasons, Masonen and Freemasons, terminal, Leipzig 1846, reprint, 1970 ( Google Books)
  • History of Freemasonry in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1848, reprint 1971
  • History of Freemasonry in France, shown from genuine documents, 2 vols, Jong Hans, Darmstadt 1852 and 1853 Volume 1: From the introduction of Freemasonry in France until the Restoration of the monarchy. (Google Books)
  • Volume 2: From the restoration of Konigthums to the July Revolution.

Secondary literature

  • Adolf Callisen: Medici African Writers' Lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all civilized nations: Jou - Lal, Volume 10, Altona 1832, p 254
  • Otto Deneke: Old Göttingerland teams. Göttingen 1937.
  • Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner and Dieter A. Binder: International Masonic Encyclopedia, Revised and expanded edition of the 1932 edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3
  • Franzstadt Müller ( ed.): History of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen from 1809 to 1959 Göttingen 1963, pp. 27 ff.
  • William Stricker: Dumpling, Georg Franz Burkhard. In: General German Biography (ADB ). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 227 f
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