Maria Georgiadou: Ein Hort der Gelehrsamkeit. Die Bibliothek Constantin Carathéodorys

The outcome of this research is the virtual reconstruction of the library once owned by the mathematician Constantin Carathéodory, professor at the University of Munich. Parts of it could be traced in the Academy of Athens, the Archive of Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, and the Chair of the History of Natural Sciences at the University of Munich. Other parts had been sold in auctions or are privately owned. The library contained books, offprints, collections, scientific journals, lecture notes, maps, photographs. The subject areas covered from antiquity up to the beginning of the 20th century were mathematics and the natural sciences, arts and the humanities. Main focuses were the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey, Philhellenism and Christianity, and the Grand Tour. The library contents reveal a universal scholar with broad scientific and political interests, a collector with material and intellectual wealth, a wandering Greek and an intellectual nomad.

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