Ludwig Hain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ludwig Hain

German editor

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1781

Place of Birth: Stargard, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 27-Jun-1836

Profession: writer, author, bibliographer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Ludwig Hain

  • Ludwig Friedrich Theodor Hain (5 July 1781, in Stargard – 27 June 1836, in Munich) was a German editor and bibliographer. He studied classical philology and Oriental languages at the University of Halle, and from 1802 lived and worked in Weimar.
  • For several years he was an editor of Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexikon in Altenburg (from 1812) and Leipzig.
  • Later on in his career, he worked as private scholar in Munich.He is best known as the compiler of Repertorium bibliographicum (1822), a pioneering short title catalogue of incunabula.
  • "Hain numbers" are still used as common bibliographical references.His work has since been superseded by the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) at the British Library and the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW) at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

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