Konrad Haebler (29 October 1857 – 13 December 1946) was a German ( Saxonian) librarian, historian and expert on

incunabula An incunable or incunabulum (: incunables or incunabula, respectively) is a book, pamphlet, or broadside (printing), broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500. The specific date is essentiall ...

. He studied philology in

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and worked in the royal public library in his native

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from 1879. He specialized in the

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

and

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. His research into the economic history of Spain led to an interest in early prints. From 1898, he was in charge of cataloguing the incunabula of the Königliche Öffentliche Bibliothek in Dresden. For this purpose he began to compile a systematic comparison of types. This led to the publication of his 1905 ''Typenrepertorium''. From 1904 to 1920, he chaired the commission editing the ''

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ( (abbreviated as ''GW or GKW'') is an ongoing project of the Berlin State Library and appears in conjunction with the print edition of the union catalogue of incunabula. The serves as a bibliography or collection of cradle prints or incunabu ...

''. From 1907, he was at the royal library in

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, and from 1914 curator of the manuscript section there.

Bibliography

* ''Die wirtschaftliche Blüte Spaniens im 16. Jahrhundert und ihr Verfall'' (1888).
''The early printers of Spain and Portugal''
(1897).
''Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke''
(1905). * ''Geschichte Spaniens unter den Habsburgern'' (1907). * ''Handbuch der Inkunabelkunde'' (1925). * ''Rollen- und Plattenstempel des 16. Jahrhunderts'' (1928–29).

References

* Wieland Schmidt, Erich von Rath: ''Die Schriften Konrad Haeblers''. Kommission für den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, Berlin 1937. * Katrin Nitzschke: ''Wissenschaft und Bibliothek. Gelehrte Bibliothekare in der Geschichte der SLUB''. In: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Technischen Universität Dresden. 55, 1/2, 2006, 61–62. * Katrin Nitzschke: 'Haebler, Konrad'. In: ''Sächsische Biografie'', ed. Martina Schattkowsky, Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde. {{DEFAULTSORT:Haebler, Konrad 19th-century German librarians People from the Kingdom of Saxony Writers from Dresden Incunabula 1857 births 1946 deaths German literary historians German male non-fiction writers Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala 20th-century German librarians