Metsiku collection in the National Library of Estonia
Journal Title: Bibliotheca Nostra. Śląski Kwartalnik Naukowy - Year 2015, Vol 41, Issue 3
Abstract
Hans Pruul (1875–1948), the eldest brother, was mostly involved with farming, though from 1919 up to 1924 he also held the position of the rural municipality mayor of Vihula. Hans Pruul was married twice and had two children, Helmi and Gustav Adolf. He dedicated to the library most of his leisure time, ordering books from the publishers, binding the old ones, and cataloguing. The daughter of Hans’s second wife, Elisabeth (Betti), Agnes Solmann, was blessed with artistic talent and she decorated with colourful ornaments the edges of the blocks of books bound by her stepfather. Hans was interested in literature and history and had a good taste for literature; however, his attitude towards literature was rather of a bibliophile type than of a lover of literature who is thirsty for knowledge. He was pleased to acquire antiquarian books, as can be seen from the notes on the title pages. Hans Pruul also compiled two catalogues of his family’s library, the bulk of its content was catalogued retrospectively. The last owner of the Metsiku library was Hans Pruul’s daughter Helmi Lensküll who lived in his father’s house until 1966. From the aspect of Estonian book history, the biggest contribution of Hans Pruul, Jr. is that he preserved the lending library from the Estonian Awakening Period in the same location and refused to scatter it. Therefore it has been preserved almost as a whole to our days (from the other peasant libraries of that period we have only archival documents or some dispersed information). During its store in the National Library the Metsiku collection has been investigated in different aspects, for example, beside book historians the diaries of Hans Pruul have been used by climate history researches. In 2013, a solid Metsiku library exhibition took place in the National Library. In addition, a stand exhibition was compiled with extensive illustrative material which was ordered by several schools and public libraries and is travelling now around Estonia.
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Sirje Lusmägi
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