Popa Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves

The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex
Nachdruck 2015
ISBN: 978-3-11-020190-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 281 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Popa, Opritsa D.

Weitere Mitwirkende

McConnell, Winder

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;11
3;Introduction and Acknowledgments;17
4;Chapter 1: “They’ve Sown the Wind And Now They Reap the Whirlwind.”;25
5;Chapter 2: “Habent Sua Fata Libelli” – Books Have Their Own Destiny;39
6;Chapter 3: Countdown to Surrender;54
7;Chapter 4: “Protect and Respect These Symbols …”;63
8;Chapter 5: Of US Safekeepers, Soviet Trophy Commissars and Marauding Allied Soldiers;71
9;Chapter 6: “Enjoy the War, the Peace Is Going to be Terrible!”;83
10;Chapter 7: Hope Deferred;94
11;Chapter 8: Going, Going, Gone!;100
12;Chapter 9: “Belle of the Books”;112
13;Chapter 10: The Professor;127
14;Chapter 11: The Countess of Camarillo;135
15;Chapter 12: Ardelia;143
16;Chapter 13: From the Ashes of the Phoenix;163
17;Chapter 14: Return of the Wounded Warrior;174
18;Chapter 15: Eyewitness;182
19;Chapter 16: Ten Years Later … Proof, Proof and More Proof;189
20;Chapter 17: To Err is Human, to Admit, Divine;203
21;Chapter 18: The Owl of Minerva;214
22;Chapter 19: “The Last, the Worst, Dull Spoiler, Who Was He?”;223
23;Backmatter;239