Georg Ruppelt

After studying history, German language and literature, education and philosophy, Georg Ruppelt gained his PhD with a doctoral thesis on “Friedrich Schiller in National Socialist Germany”. He subsequently worked as a librarian, becoming deputy director of the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel in 1987, and director of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek in Hanover from 2002 to 2016. Ruppelt has published over 400 essays and 40 monographs on the subject of books, library science, and cultural history.