Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves

The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex
Nachdruck 2015
ISBN: 978-3-11-017730-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Reihe: Schriften zum Kulturgüterschutz / Cultural Property Studies

In Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves, Opritsa Popa has documented what might justifiably be described as the most celebrated case of looting of two German cultural treasures by a member of the U.S. Army at the end of World War II and their subsequent odyssey across both an ocean and a continent: the pilfering from a cellar in Bad Wildungen of the ninth-century Liber Sapientiae, containing the two leaves of the oldest extant German heroic poem, the Old High German Hildebrandslied, along with the fourteenth-century illuminated Willehalm codex, both of which had been removed from the State Library in Kassel for protection from bombing raids.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries, Journalists, Everyone interested in History and Literature

Autoren/Hrsg.

Popa, Opritsa D.

Weitere Mitwirkende

McConnell, Winder

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Archivierung, Konservierung & Digitalisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur