Julius Victor Scholderer,

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, FBA (9 October 1880 – 11 September 1971), usually known as Victor Scholderer, was a German bibliographer born in England. Born in

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to German parents, he was the son of the artist

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. Scholderer attended St Paul's School and

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(winning the

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in 1900). He joined the staff of the

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in 1904; he was appointed Deputy Keeper of the Department of Printed Books in 1930 and remained in that office until retirement in 1945. His major achievements included producing (sometimes with others) parts 2 to 8 of the ''Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum'' (published from 1912 to 1949; he edited parts 5 to 8), and authoring the

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s of the library's 16th-century Italian and German books (1958 and 1962). He was the Sandars Reader in Bibliography at the

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in 1930 and presented the Italian Lecture at the

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in 1948. That year, he was elected a fellow of the latter; he also received two

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and the

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's gold medal, was appointed a

in 1961, and was the dedicatee of a

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in 1970."''Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum''"
''

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''. Retrieved 8 March 2021.

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