The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (right) on Ludwigstraße, Munich

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (English: Bavarian State Library), 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 and the Alps Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the capital of the German federal state of Bavaria. ... Modern-style library 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. ...

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): 1802 and 1803, most of the german monasteries and seminaries, and with them libraries with traditions extending back over 1.000 years, had to close. 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, for example:
  • the Nibelungenlied
  • the Carmina Burana
• more than 44.000 printed und digitized magazines and journals (Europe's second largest holding)
• 18.667 incunabula (the world's largest holding), among them
  • a Gutenberg bible

see also: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Die Deutsche Bibliothek First page from Manuscript C of the Nibelungenlied (ca. ... From the 11th-13th Century Carmina Burana, a collection of love and vagabond songs. ... 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. ... // Staatsbibliothek The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage) Short history: Founded in 1661 During the World War II the entire holdings (at the time some three million books and other materials)were hidden to safety in 30 monasteries, castles and disused mines. ... 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)
• www.goethe.de Text about the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, edited by the Goethe Institute