Wilhelm Brambach

Wilhelm Bramstedt ( born December 17, 1841 in Bonn, † February 26, 1932 in Karlsruhe ) was a German classical scholar, historian and music librarian.

Life

Wilhelm Bramstedt, son of the late 1890 piano tuner and organ builder Franz Jacob Brachmann and brother of the choir conductor and composer Caspar Joseph Bramstedt completed, put-away after graduating from the University of Bonn to study classical philology with Friedrich Ritschl and musicology with Heinrich Breidenstein. In 1864 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Roman consulate.

As a result, Bramstedt was initially hired as an assistant at the Bonn University Library from 1862 to 1866. Subsequently, he became in 1866 director ( Chief Librarian ) of the Freiburg University Library. At the University of Freiburg, he also taught as an adjunct professor of Classical Philology, since 1868 as a full professor. 1872 Bramstedt was appointed the successor of Johann Christoph Doell with the management of the Baden Court and State Library, a position he held until his retirement in 1904. Even then he remained until 1921 Head of the Numismatic Collection of the National Library. Bramstedt died on February 26, 1932 90 -year-old in Karlsruhe.

Work

Brambachs philological research has focused mainly on the areas of epigraphy, rhythmic, metric and orthography. Significantly from musicological perspective, the studies made ​​during his time at the Baden State Library by its Reichenau manuscripts of medieval music theory and practice and the history of the Reichenau School Singer. Although overtaken in details, delivered its based on exact textual criticism research a valuable contribution to our knowledge of medieval music treatises, for example, by Bernoulli and Hermann of Reichenau, and the ecclesiastical choral music, especially Gregorian chant.

As a library director Bramstedt called for an independence of the librarian profession, after he had gained at the University of Freiburg experience that librarians and teachers had become increasingly incompatible. In Karlsruhe, he reorganized the Baden Court and State Library, and the associated coin collection, which he also referred to the American concept of the public library. The library was incorporated in the state administration and placed under the Department of the Ministry of the Interior. In addition, the company was renamed in Grand Ducal Court and State Library. Bramstedt organized the relocation of the library in a new building and made for a modern library regulations. Associated with Wilhelm Brambachs names remain the 1875 printed library catalogs.

Works

  • The Reichenau School Singer: Contributions to the history of scholarship and to the knowledge of medieval music manuscripts. - Harrassowitz, leipzig 1888 ( digitized )
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