Martin Schrettinger

Martin Wilibald Schrettinger ( born June 17, 1772 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, † April 12, 1851 in Munich) was a German priest and librarian.

In 1793 he put in the Benedictine Weißenohe ( Upper Franconia ) the profession in 1795 he was ordained a priest and from 1800 he worked as a monastery librarian. In 1802 - just before the dissolution of the monastery - he went to Munich, where he occupied the Royal Court Library. In 1806 he was curator there, and in 1823 assistant librarian. In 1839 he was - while maintaining its position as a librarian - canon of the monastery of St. Cajetan Munich.

Schrettinger applies together with Friedrich Adolf Ebert as the founder of modern library science and was also the first to use this term. He engaged for a list of library materials by subject and sub-divisions and demanded an inventory development in an alphabetical author catalog and a site catalog. Its begun in 1819, ordered by Keyword " real- catalog ", which itself is still sometimes consulted by modern librarians, remained unfinished.

Writings

  • Attempt a complete textbook on library science or instructions for perfect management of an Bibliothekärs. Volume 1 (Book 1-3): 1808-1810; Volume 2 ( Issue 4 ), 1829.
  • Manual of library science. Vienna 1834. Reprint Weidmann, Hildesheim, 2003. ISBN 3-615-00277-6
  • Owned by the Bavarian State Library in Munich are Schrettingers diary of the years 1793-1850 as well as a handwritten autobiography.
  • Philip Dormer Stanhope of Chesterfield: The art among people to live happily. From d French trans. of Wilibald Schrettinger. Seidel, Munich, 1802.
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