Curt F. Bühler
American librarian and book historian
About Curt F. Bühler
Lived 1905 – 1985 (aged 80). Curt F. Bühler was an American librarian, book historian and bibliographer.
Curt Ferdinand Bühler (11 July 1905 – 2 August 1985) was an American librarian and expert of early books who published mainly on the art and history of books printed during the fifteenth century. He took degrees from Yale University (B.A., 1927) and Trinity College Dublin (Ph.D., 1930). After post-doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) from 1931 to 1933, he worked as a rare book curator at the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1934, was appointed Keeper of Printed Books in 1948, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
He was Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania.
Personal life In July 1971, Bühler married Lucy Jane Ford Schoettle.
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American librarian and book historian (1905-1985)
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Curt F. Bühler was born on 11 July 1905 in New York City.
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