Konrad Haebler

Konrad Haebler ( born October 29, 1857 in Dresden, † 13 December 1946 in Wehlen ) was a German librarian.

Life

He studied at the University of Leipzig and received his PhD in linguistics in 1882. Since 1879 he was a research assistant at the Royal Public Library of Dresden. There he distinguished himself as a formidable scholar of Spanish history and literature. He himself wrote in 1943 about the origin of its affinity to Spain, that he had a young lady named Carmen Dolores met in the last years of his high school years, in which his imagination had stimulated the most violent. He made ​​several trips to the Iberian Peninsula, including 1889 in the wake of the later King Friedrich August III. , Which he used for extensive studies of the sources. In the course of his employment with the economic history of Spain in the 16th century, it increasingly became interested in the history of printing.

From 1898, he was responsible for the cataloging of incunabula in Dresden, but he likened to determine the exact prints the printing types used. From this arose the activity published by him in 1905 Typenrepertorium of incunabula. 1904 he was appointed chairman of the Commission for the Union Catalogue of Incunabula. He held until 1920 this office.

From 1907 he was employed at the Royal Library in Berlin, where he became in 1914 head of the manuscript department. After his retirement in 1921 he devoted himself to further scientific research, among other things, to book covers the Renaissance. From 1925 his permanent residence was again Dresden. He advised the Dresdner banker Victor von Klemperer (1876-1943) in expanding its collection of incunabula and the creation of three collection catalogs.

Works

• The economic boom in Spain in the 16th century and their decay (1888 )
• The early printers of Spain and Portugal ( 1897)
• History of Spain under the Habsburgs (1907 )
• Handbook of Inkunabelkunde (1925 )
• Roll and panel stamp of the 16th century ( 1928-1929 )