Rudolf Bülck


Rudolf Bülck was a German librarian.

Life

Born in Neumünster, Bülck was the child of Hartwig Friedrich Bülck from Hufner and his wife Elsabe, née Rohwedder. After attending grammar school in Plön he studied German and Romance philology, Danish and history in Freiburg, Kiel and Berlin. In 1926 he passed the state examination and received his doctorate. His dissertation was entitled: "The Schleswig-Holstein Newspaper Industry from its Beginnings to 1789". Bülck first began his career in 1908 in the middle library service at the Göttingen State and University Library, in 1914 he moved to the. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier. In 1927 Bülck was admitted to the academic service and passed his subject examination in 1928. In 1934 he became a librarian. In 1944 he was seriously injured in a bomb attack on the UB. In 1945 he was the only scientific officer of the UB Kiel who was still in service. He organized the repatriation of the outsourced collections.
Bülck did research on the Low German language, Schleswig-Holstein literature, especially on Klaus Groth and Friedrich Hebbel, Schleswig-Holstein regional studies, the history of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel and the history of the Kiel UB.

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