The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (right) on Ludwigstraße, Munich

The Bavarian State Library (German: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), located in Munich, is the central library of the German state of Bavaria and one of the largest libraries in the German-speaking world. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x1024, 659 KB) Description: Ludwigstraße, München. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x1024, 659 KB) Description: Ludwigstraße, München. ... Munich (German: München, (pronounced listen) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ... A modern-style library in Chambéry In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. ... Germany is a federal republic made up of 16 states, known in German as Länder (transliterated as laender in English, singular Land). ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ...

The library was founded as the "Wittelsbach court library" by Duke Albrecht V, who acquired in 1558 the private library of Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter as a basic stock. Events January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of England July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter (born 1506 in Nellingen/Blaubeuren near Ulm; died 28 March 1557 in Regensburg), also called Widmestadius or Albert Widmannstadt, was a humanist, orientalist, philologer, and theologer In 1533, as secretary of Nikolaus Cardinal von Schönberg, he delivered a series of lectures in Rome, outlining Nicolaus Copernicus...

In 1571, Duke Albrecht V purchased the private library of Johann Jakob Fugger, enlarging his own collection by Events January 11 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion. ... The Fugger family was a historically prominent group of European bankers. ...

• ca. 10.000 books, that had been acquired by Johann Jakob Fugger's agents in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands
• manuscripts and incunabula out of the library of Hartmann Schedel, that time one of the most important humanistic private libraries north of the alps.

Another rush of precious items arrived in Munich in the course of secularization (see also: Reichsdeputationshauptschluss). Most of the German monasteries and seminaries had to close in 1802 and 1803, and with them libraries with traditions extending back over 1.000 years. Only a part of the manuscripts and books could be rescued in the rooms of German state libraries. A page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) printed in Strassburg by J.R.Grueninger. ... Hartmann Schedel, a german humanist and historian (* February 13, 1440 in Nuremberg, † November 28, 1514 in Nuremberg), was one of the first cartographers to make use of the printing press. ... Humanism is a system of thought that defines a socio-political doctrine (-ism) whose bounds exceed those of locally developed cultures, to include all of humanity and all issues common to human beings. ... Secularization is a contentious term because the concept of secularization can be confused with secularism, a philosophical and political movement that promotes the idea that society benefits by being less religious, whereas the opposing view is that the values and beliefs implicit in religions support a more moral and, therefore... The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss conclusion was a resolution of the last meeting of the Immerwaehrenden realm tags on 25 February 1803 in Regensburg. ... --69. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

The library was renamed "Bayerische Staatsbibliothek" in 1919. 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Inventory

• ca. 8 million books (2005)
• ca. 85.700 manuscripts, including:
  • Manuscript A of the Nibelungenlied
  • Freising manuscripts
  • the Carmina Burana
• more than 44.000 subscription periodicals and monographic series (Europe's second largest holding)
• 18.667 incunabula (the world's largest holding), among them
  • a Gutenberg bible

The Nibelungenlied is an epic poem in Middle High German. ... The Freising Manuscripts (also Freising Monuments; Slovene Brižinski spomeniki, German Freisinger Denkmäler, Latin Monumenta Frisingensia, Slovak Frizinské pamiatky) are the first Roman-script record of any Slavic language. ... Carmina Burana (IPA: ) is a collection of 13th-century songs and poetry, the basis for Carl Orffs 20th-century musical settings, first performed in 1937. ... The Gutenberg bible owned by the U.S. Library of Congress The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible, and as the Mazarin Bible) is a print of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible that was printed by its namesake, Johann Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany. ...

See also

• Berlin State Library
• Die Deutsche Bibliothek

Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage (German: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz) is a library in Berlin, Germany. ... Die Deutsche Bibliothek (in English literally the German library) is the national library of Germany. ...

External links

• bsb-muenchen.de - Website of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
• hu-berlin.de - Lecture of Prof. Dr. Peter Zahn on the history of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (in German)