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Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko (27 January 1842 - 13 January 1903,
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) was a German librarian and scholar, born in Neustadt,
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.Denecke, Ludwig, „Dziatzko, Karl Franz Otto“
in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 4 (1959), S. 213-214


Biography

From 1859 to 1863 he studied
classical philology Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
at the universities of Breslau and
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. At Bonn, he was influenced by
philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl and worked as an assistant at the university library. In 1863, he received his
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with a
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on the prologues of
Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus (; c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the ...
and
Terence Publius Terentius Afer (; – ), better known in English as Terence (), was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 166–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought ...
. Following graduation, he worked as a schoolteacher in Opole and then in Lucerne (from 1865).Statement(s) based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia, whose sources includ
Denecke, Ludwig, „Dziatzko, Karl Franz Otto“
in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 4 (1959), S. 213-214
In 1871, he became head librarian at the
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, where he also obtained his habilitation the same year. After a brief stint as a schoolteacher in
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, he was appointed director of the university library at Breslau (1872). Here, he headed a comprehensive reorganization of the library that included rules for a new alphabetical
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that became a model for the ''
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''. From 1886 until his death, he was director of the university library and professor of
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at the
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. With educator
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, he strove for reforms pertaining to academic librarianship during the latter part of the 19th century. At Göttingen, he was instrumental in the creation of a professional librarian association (initially a section within the ''Philologenverbande'' (Philology Association). Also, he made significant contributions in the fields of "
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research" and incunabula studies, that included a complete incunabula catalog Among his publications are a text edition of the comedies of
Terence Publius Terentius Afer (; – ), better known in English as Terence (), was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 166–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought ...
(1884); "'' Instruction für die Ordnung der Titel im Alphabetischen Zettelkatalog der Königlichen und Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Breslau''" (
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ed in 1874, printed in 1886); and "''Untersuchungen über ausgewählte Kapitel des antiken Buchwesens''" (1900). The publication of 1886 is said to be the basis of K. A. Linderfelt's "Eclectic Card Catalog Rules" (Boston, 1890).


Bibliography

* ''De prologis Plautinis et Terentianis quaestiones selectae'' (dissertation) Bonn 1863. * ''Ausgewählte Komödien des P. Terentius Afer : zur Einführung in die Lektüre der altlateinischen Lustspiele''. Teubner, Leipzig 1874ff. (viele Neuauflagen) – Selected comedies of P. Terentius Afer: Introduction to the reading of
Old Latin Old Latin, also known as Early Latin or Archaic Latin (Classical la, prīsca Latīnitās, lit=ancient Latinity), was the Latin language in the period before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin. It descends from a common Proto-Italic ...
comedies. * ''P. Terenti Afri Comoediae''. Tauchnitz. second edition, Leipzig 1884. * ''Instruction für die Ordnung der Titel im Alphabetischen Zettelkatalog der Königlichen und Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Breslau''. Asher, Berlin 1886 – Instruction for the order of titles in the alphabetical card catalog of the Royal Library and the University of Breslau. * ''Beiträge zur Gutenbergfrage''. Asher, Berlin 1889 – Contributions to the Gutenberg question. * ''Gutenbergs früheste Druckerpraxis''. Asher, Berlin 1890.– Gutenberg's earliest printing practice. * ''Entwickelung und gegenwärtiger Stand der wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken Deutschlands mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Preußens''. Spirgatis, Leipzig 1893 – Development and current state of academic libraries: with special consideration to Prussia. * ''Untersuchungen über ausgewählte Kapitel des antiken Buchwesens''. Teubner, Leipzig 1900 – Studies on selected chapters of the ancient bibliology. * ''Das neue Fragment der Περικειρομένη erikeiromenedes Menander''. Leipzig: Teubner, 1900 (=Sonderdruck aus dem XXVII. Supplementband der Jahrbücher für classische Philologie, Festschrift C. F. W. Müller, S. 123–134) – A new fragment of Perikeiromene by Menander.de.Wikisource
Bibliography of Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko


References

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