The Bibliotheca Bipontina is a regional scientific library in

Zweibrücken Zweibrücken (; french: Deux-Ponts, ; Palatinate German: ''Zweebrigge'', ; literally translated as "Two Bridges") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river. Name The name ''Zweibrücken'' means 'two bridges'; olde ...

, which has been part of the since 1 September 2004. It is one of the most important libraries in the land. The book stock amounts to about 120,600 volumes , including 12,000 volumes of the museum's old stock from the princely libraries of the dukes of Zweibrück. It also holds the libraries of the Association for Palatine Church History (about 20,000 volumes) and the Zweibrücken Historical Association (about 10,000 volumes). The main focus of the holdings is on regional literature of the Palatinate and on

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

subjects. The founding collection of the Bibliotheca Bipontina was included in the ''Länderverzeichnis national wertvollen Kulturgutes'' in 2015.

History

While the libraries in Zweibrücken were almost completely destroyed by the war events of the 17th century, the library in

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of the

Birkenfeld Birkenfeld () is a town and the district seat of the Birkenfeld district in southwest Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is also the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde''. The town itself has approximately 7,000 inhabitants. Geography ...

line remained, which was brought to the Zweibrücken residence in the 18th century. It was held by

Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld Charles I of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (4 September 1560 – 16 December 1600), Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke in Bavaria, Count to Veldenz and Sponheim was the Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from 1569 until 1600. Life Charles was born in Neu ...

(died 1600), Duke

Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken (german: Pfalzgraf Wolfgang von Zweibrücken; 26 September 1526 – 11 June 1569) was member of the Wittelsbach family of the Counts Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken from 1532. With the support of his re ...

's youngest son, and was continually expanded by his heirs. In his will, Count Palatine Karl made it his duty to his heirs to maintain and expand the library and stipulated that "the library be left with the County of Sponheim". In the 18th century, intellectual life flourished in Zweibrücken, book printing (the famous editions of the

Bipont Editions Bipont Editions (also known as the Bipontine Editions), the name of a famous series of editions, in 50 volumes, of Greek and Latin classical authors, so called from Bipontium, the modern Latin name of Zweibrücken (also referred to as "Deux Ponts"; ...

were published here) and of course also the library. The head of the library at that time was the grammar school rector

Georg Christian Crollius Georg Christian Crollius (21 July 1728 – 23 March 1790) was a German historian and librarian. He was born in Zweibrücken, the son of the gymnasial headmaster Johann Philipp Crollius and Margaretha Gabriela Joannis. Crollius studied in Halle ...

, a renowned scholar. Since the end of the 19th century, the Bipontina had been part of the humanistic . After its dissolution, it became an independent state institution in 1988, then integrated into a newly founded Rhineland-Palatinate State Library Centre in 2004.La bibliotheca Bipontina, une mine d'or pour les étudiants et chercheurs
on YouTube

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External links

Landesbibliothekszentrum / Bibliotheca Bipontina (Homepage)

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