Library and some of its 19th century calendars and journals
The Library of the National Brukenthal Museum from Sibiu is an 18th century cultural institution, one of the most important libraries in Romania. Its founder was Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, Governor of Transylvania (1777-1787). The collections consist on old books in foreign languages (mainly in German and Latin), as well as old Romanian writings. An important part represents also the collection of periodicals from the 19th century, and books from the same period of time. From the very beginning, the Brukenthal Library was regarded as the main research centre of Southern Transylvania. Nowadays reality proves that it remained one of the leading cultural Romanian institutions of our country. Researchers from Romania and abroad carry out research work in the library and the results of this activity are mainly published in the periodicals of the museum, as well as in books printed abroad, of course, in foreign languages, especially in German. I would like to focus my attention of the 19th century periodicals collection of the Brukenthal Library, a collection which includes old German calendars and scientific journals, all of them being relevant for humanities and social science in a multicultural and multilingual framework. It is already known that Sibiu town (as well as its surroundings) has a multiethnic population, especially of Romanians and Germans.
Keywords: National Brukenthal Museum, collection of periodicals, Southern Transylvania, Samuel von Brukenthal, old Germans calendars, scientific journals
1. Joseph Kurzböcks, Almanach de Vienne ou Abrégé Historique, Vienne, 1773, 180-1.
2. According to the letter of the housekeeper Therese Holzer, dated the 24th December 1785, published in Archiv des Vereins für Siebenbürgesche Landeskunde, Briefe an den Freiherrn Samuel von Brukenthal, mitgeteilt von H. Herbert, 31 (Hermannstadt, 1903), 921.
3. Johann Lehmann, Reise von Pressburg nach Hermannstadt in Siebenbürgen (Travel from Bratislava to Sibiu in Transylvania’), Dünkelspiel und Leipzig in Komission by Christian Gottlieb Herter, 1785.
4. G.-L. Ittu, Geschichte des Brukenthalmuseums, (Sibiu/ Hermannstadt, 2003), 82
5. This means that a remedy that produces symptoms in a healthy person will cure those same symptoms when manifested by a
person in a diseased state. This law of cure has been verified by millions of homoeopaths all over the world since the time of Hahnemann.
6. Constantin Ittu, Tainele Bibliotecii Brukenthal [‘The Mysteries of the Brukenthal Library’] (Sibiu, 2007), 19–28 (Neumann), 29–32 (von Braun and the Gräffers’).
7. Michael Csaki, Das Breviarium Brukenthal (Hermannstadt/ Sibiu,
1912), 3–8.
8. Jan De Maere, ‘Ein wertvolles Werk in der Bibliothek. Das Breviarium Brukenthal’, Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen (Antwerpen, 2007), 16–19.
9. There are numerous books concerning the incunabula collection: Fr. Müller, ‘‘Incunabeln der Capellenbibliothek’, Archiv des Vereins, 14, 2–3 (Sibiu, 1877); G. Seivert, ’Die Wiegendrucke des Baron Brukenthalischen Museum’, Mitteilungen aus dem Brukenthalisches Museum (Sibiu, 1944), Veturia Jugăreanu, Catalogul colecţiei de incunabule [’The Catalogue of Incunabula Collection’], (Sibiu, Muzeul Brukenthal, 1969)
Csaki, Michael, Das Breviarium Brukenthal (Hermannstadt/ Sibiu,
1912)
Ittu, Constantin, “Revolutio alphabetaria” în Biblioteca Brtukenthal
[‘Revolutio Alphabetaria in the Brukenthal Library’] (Sibiu,
Alba Iulia, 2007)
Ittu, Constantin, Tainele Bibliotecii Brukenthal [‘The Mysteries of the
Brukenthal Library’] (Sibiu, Alba Iulia, 2007)
Ittu, Constantin, Vademecum bibliologic, (Sibiu, Alba Iulia, 2008)
Ittu, Gudrun-Liane, Geschichte des Brukenthalmuseums,
(Sibiu/Hermannstadt, 2003)
Ittu, Gudrun-Liane, Scurtă istorie a Muzeului Brukenthal [’A Short
History of the Brukenthal Museum’], (Sibiu, Alba Iulia, 2008)
Jugăreanu Veturia, Catalogul colecţiei de incunabule [’The Catalogue of
Incunabula Collection’], (Sibiu, 1969)
Nägler, Doina, Ctalogul transilvanicelor [‘The Transylvanica Books
Catalogue’], 2 Vol., (Sibiu, 1974, 1982)
Ordeanu, Maria, Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Liber Horarum Brukenthal,
(Sibiu, Alba Iulia, 2007)
Pascu, Constantin, Cartea veche românească în biblioteca Muzeului
Brukenthal [‘The Old Romanian Books in the Brukenthal
Museum Library’], (Sibiu 1976)
Şerbănescu, Olga, Catalogul cărţii străine din secolul al XVI-lea [‘The
Catalogue of the 16th Century Foreign Books’], vol. I, A
(Sibiu, Alba Iulia, 2007)
