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Mader is the author of one of the most influential works on the history of li¬
braries and library studies of the 17th century. He worked in the famous library
of Wolfenbüttel. In 1666, he published a collection of texts on the theoretical
literature on libraries, including a description of the state of the Buda collection in
1530" by Johann Alexander Brassicanus (1500-1539), also known in the Hun¬
garian literature.” Schmidt had great admiration for the highly respected Mader,
and his choice of title referred to his pioneering collection of texts (De bibliothecis
nova accessio collectioni Maderianae adiuncta). He also included texts in the volume
that were missing from Mader’s or were written after the 1666 edition, such as
Julius Pflugk’s letter. This literature was continued by the Lutheran pastor Johann
Christian Koch, 92 when he wrote the first work on the classification of books
(de ordinanda bibliotheca).*” Koch lists the major libraries’ methods for classifying
books by subject (subject classification). It details Jacobus Tollius’s first travel letter
concerning Wolfenbittel, and points out that the publisher of the letter, Heinrich
Christian Hennin, lists the thematic units of Herzog August’s library in his notes
to the letter. Koch does not explain why he thinks this, but he also compares it to
the imaginary order of Matthias’s library (Hennin does not state this, by the way.)
#0 DE BIBLIOTHECIS..., (ed. MADER) 1666, in Brassicanus: 135-143.
#1 "THE travels of Brassicanus to Buda were thoroughly analysed by N£METH 2013; N£METH 2013a. Cf.
more Förpesı 2002.
2 KocH 1713. The author is not the same as Johann Christian Koch (1680-1742) goldsmith.
43 K6HLERS 1728 introductory text refers to it this way.
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