Leona Rostenberg

Leona Rustberg (* December 28, 1908, † 23 March 2005 in New York) was an American historian and Buchantiquarin.

Life

Leona was the second child of the doctor Adolph Rustberg and his wife Louisa, née Dreyfus - both German - Jewish descent. She grew up in the Bronx, attended after primary school Evander Childs High School and the Washington Square College of New York University. In the fall of 1932, she took on a doctoral degree in history at Columbia University. She did research for several years for a thesis on the importance of the printer for the dissemination of knowledge and the development of worldviews in the Renaissance and the Reformation, which was not accepted by her doctor father Lynn Thorndike.

From 1939 to 1944 she worked as an assistant for the emigrated from Austria antiquarian Herbert Reichner and made yourself with your own Antiquarian bookshop independently. Thanks to her by herself like so-called fingertip feeling it has established itself in the industry and became increasingly involved in governing their profession. She was involved in organizing the first American Antiquarian Book Fair, which was held in New York in 1960 and in 1972 president of the Antiquarian Bookseller Association of America ( ABAA ) selected.

In addition to her commercial work with old books, she devoted herself time and again studies on the history of publishing and the book trade with a focus on the development in England of the 16th and 17th centuries. In recognition of their scientific publications in this field she was awarded the Columbia University 1973 Doctorate.

Leona Rustberg remained active into old age as a writer and bookseller. Your co-authored with her ​​long -time partner Madeleine Stern memories since 2004 are also available in German translation.

Book publications

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