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Georg Reismüller was a German librarian. He was the Director-General of the Bavarian State Library from 1929 to 1935.
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Georg Reismüller | |
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Director-General Bavarian State Library | |
In office August 1929 – 20 August 1935 | |
Preceded by | Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld |
Succeeded by | Rudolf Buttmann |
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Born | Ingolstadt | 11 May 1882
Died | May 12, 1936 54) Günzburg | (aged
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Education | fall of 1901 graduate of the Royal Old High School in Ingolstadt |
Alma mater | 1907 degree in Classical and Oriental Philology from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and two semesters newer languages after.
From 1904 to 1907 he spent his holiday in Italy, Dalmatia, North Africa, Scotland, Norway and Svalbard.
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From April 1, 1923 to 1928 during the Occupation of the Ruhr he was commissioned to set up the Pfälzische Landesbibliothek Speyer as part of the art funding program, headed this Library,[references 1] became member of the Bavarian People's Party and befriended with Heinrich Held.[4]
As a Catholic and member of the People's Party, Reismüller's appointment was opposed by officials and functionaries with völkisch and National Socialist inclinations. (Bd. 3: 2, 1957, 378).
He was dismissed by the Reichsminister of Science, Education and Culture Bernhard Rust on July 23, 1935 (with effect from August 20); being replaced by a rival, Leidinger, who had used his rival's term to scrutinize his actions and file dossiers on his »mismanagement« and »megalomania« now had an opportunity to present a comprehensive report in which the »atrocities« of Reismüller's.[5]
As a Romanist and Anglist, Reismüller was self-taught in Chinese. It can be assumed that Reismuller's interest arose either from private inclination or was developed and promoted by his academic teachers, especially Ernst Kuhn and Lucian Scherman.
An assessment of the sinological work is today, in the absence of other material, only possible with the help of the publications of Reismüller, and there are few, albeit substantial: A small contribution on Chinese and European technology.[6] points out that in the Gujin Tushu Jicheng (the great Chinese encyclopedia of 1726),[references 2] representations of European machines based on European models, especially Agostino Ramelli[7] Jacques Besson[8] and Fausto Veranzio,[9] to which Hugo Theodor Horwitz .[10] and Carl Graf von Klinckowström .[11] had drawn attention, from the Chinese works of two Jesuit missionaries, namely the T'ai-hsi shui-fa ["European Hydraulics": 1612] by Sabatino de Ursis[12] and the Yüan-hsi ch'i t'u-shuo ["Illustrated depiction of the workable machines of the Far West"; 1627] by Johann Schreck.[13] He explains the transfer process by means of four illustrations, each showing the European original and the Chinese designation, Joseph Needham, the authority in the field of Chinese scientific history, considers Reismüller as a special service, the origin of the Crawler excavators from Besson's factory have proven.[14] On a trip to China in 1830, Neumann succeeded in acquiring Chinese literature of 10,000 copies. Since the Prussian government had given a subsidy, they received a share of the collection, while the Bavarian government bought their share for a professorship. This was the basis for today's East Asian collection of the Bavarian State Library.
»Der bekannte China-Forscher ...« in: MNN 310: 14.11.1932, 2.
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