Karl Zangemeister


Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Zangemeister was a German librarian and philologist.

Biography

He studied classical philology at the universities of Berlin and Bonn, receiving his doctorate in 1862 with the thesis De Horatii vocibus singularibus dissertatio. Afterwards, he worked on the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum project in Italy, and from 1868 to 1873 was a librarian at the Ducal Library in Gotha. In 1873 he relocated to the University of Heidelberg as senior librarian, being named a professor of classical philology in 1875. From 1894 to 1902 he was associated with the Central Directorate of the Königlichen Archäologischen Instituts.

Selected works

Inscriptiones Pompeianae parietariae et vasorum fictilium.Berichte über die im Auftrage der Kirchenvater commission unternommene Durchforschung der Biblitheken Englands, 1877 - Reports on the undertakings on behalf of the Church Fathers Commission investigation of the libraries of England. System des Real-Katalogs der Universitäts-Bibliothek Heidelberg, 1885 - System of Real Catalogs at the University Library in Heidelberg.