Bohačesć Bjedrich Ponich a jeho knihownja

Abstract

Ehregott Friedrich Pannach and His Book Collection

When discussing the rare, oldest books in the Upper and Lower Sorbian languages, the name of their collector also comes up: E. Fr. Pannach (1761–1826). This article de­scribes his collection as well as his biographical and bibliographical writings in the con­text of the publications by his father, Petrus Pannach, and his brother, Samuel Traugott Pannach. However, the focus is primarily on the eventful history of this small but most significant book collection, which was available to Sorbian scholars in Bautzen for 100 years. In 1929, it was brought to Leipzig by the Wendish Preachers’ Society, and around 1960, a private bookseller sold it on the antiquarian market.