Antje Bultmann Lemke

Antje Bultmann Lemke (27 July 1918 – 15 May 2017) was a German-born librarian, translator, and classical musician. After abandoning plans for a medical doctor career due to Adolf Hitler's rise to power, she studied library science at Leipzig University and aided in the German resistance to Nazism. After World War II, she fled the Soviet occupation zone in Germany and was a founder of . She moved to the United States where she obtained her master degree from Syracuse University, where she later worked as a librarian and professor.

A 1960 Guggenheim Fellow, she was a published translator and helped preserve the work of polymath Albert Schweitzer. Outside of academia, she was a violinist and violist for the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, and she promoted the development of other local libraries. Biography Antje Bultmann was born on 27 July 1918 in Breslau, to Helene and theologian Rudolf Bultmann. before eventually becoming professor emerita. In 1960, Lemke was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for studies of German libraries in the Age of Enlightenment"; her Guggenheim Fellowship research focused on the Brothers Grimm.

She helped preserve the work of polymath Albert Schweitzer, accumulating his archives at SU with the help of his daughter Rhena Schweitzer Miller, She was also a skilled harpsichordist and recorder player. The Temple Society of Concord named her a Righteous Gentile in 1998. The Antje Bultmann Lemke Seminar Room at SU's Special Collections Research Center is named after her, as are the Antje Lemke Book Award for the iSchool's library and information science graduate students and a conference room at Hinds Hall.