Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko

Karl Dziatzko ( pronunciation (IPA ) [ dʒiatsko ], born January 27, 1842 in Neustadt in Upper Silesia, † January 13, 1903 in Göttingen ) was a German librarian and classical philologist.

He studied from 1859 to 1863 Classical Philology in Breslau and Bonn, where he was also assistant at the university library, which was led by his academic teacher Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl. After his doctorate on the prologues of Plautus and Terence (1863 ) Dziatzko was first a teacher at secondary schools in Opole and since 1865 in Lucerne. In 1871 he became head of the Freiburg University Library and habilitated there in the same year.

After a brief return to the teaching profession in Karlsruhe, he was born in 1872 Director of the University Library Wrocław, which he reorganized comprehensively. The rules drawn up by him for the new alphabetical card catalog have been the model for the Prussian Instructions.

From 1886 until his death was Dziatzko Director of the University Library and the first holder of the newly created Department of auxiliary library science at the University of Göttingen, who served in particular to the Higher Education for library service in Prussia.

Dziatzko worked at a central location, with as a consultant by Friedrich Althoff, in the reform of science librarianship end of the 19th century. At the professionalization of librarianship profession he had by the Göttingen training role and participation in the creation of a professional association (initially as a section of the philologist Association ) major contributors.

Scientifically Dziatzko operated in the field of the Gutenberg Research, the Inkunabelkunde and the ancient book trade, as well as editor and commentator of the comedies of Terence.

Writings

• De ProLogis Plautinis et Terentianis quaestiones selectae. Diss Bonn 1863.
• Selected comedies of P. Terentius Afer: an introduction to the reading of the Old Latin comedies. Teubner, Leipzig 1874ff. (many editions )
• P. Terenti Afri Comoediae. Tauchnitz, 2nd ed Leipzig 1884.
• Instruction for the order of the title in the alphabetical card catalog of Royal and University Library in Wroclaw. Asher, Berlin, 1886.
• Contributions to the Gutenberg question. Asher, Berlin, 1889.
• Gutenberg's earliest printers practice. Asher, Berlin, 1890.
• Development and present state of scientific libraries in Germany with special emphasis Prussia. Spirgatis, Leipzig 1893.
• Studies on selected chapters of the ancient book trade. Teubner, Leipzig, 1900.