TY - CHAP
T1 - Gustav Adolf Deissmann (1866-1937)
AU - Gerber, Albrecht
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In 1897, the Heidelberg University’s Ruperto-Carola Library was presented with an extraordinary opportunity to purchase a considerable number of valuable ancient texts, written on papyri, parchments, or wooden plates, in languages which included Arabic, Coptic, Demotic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Persian and Syriac. The acquisition came about primarily through the efforts of the University’s farsighted chief-librarian, Karl Zangenmeister (1837-1902), and was followed before the turn of the century by at least three more similar purchases. The budding papyri collection not only raised the University’s prestige, but also formed the basis on which its present world-class papyrus collection is founded.
AB - In 1897, the Heidelberg University’s Ruperto-Carola Library was presented with an extraordinary opportunity to purchase a considerable number of valuable ancient texts, written on papyri, parchments, or wooden plates, in languages which included Arabic, Coptic, Demotic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Persian and Syriac. The acquisition came about primarily through the efforts of the University’s farsighted chief-librarian, Karl Zangenmeister (1837-1902), and was followed before the turn of the century by at least three more similar purchases. The budding papyri collection not only raised the University’s prestige, but also formed the basis on which its present world-class papyrus collection is founded.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9788862277525
SN - 9788862277570
SN - 9788862277532
SN - 9788842714422
SN - 8842714429
VL - 4
T3 - Biblioteca Degli Studi Di Egittologia E Di Papirologia
SP - 9
EP - 18
BT - Hermae: Scholars and Scholarship in Papyrology IV
A2 - Capasso, Mario
PB - Fabrizio Serra Editore
CY - Pisa, Italy
ER -