Polskie Ziemie Odzyskane w pracach bibliograficznych Herberta Ristera (1908-1993)

Abstract

The article presents an academic profile of Herbert Rister, one of postwar Western- German bibliographer associated with Johann Gottfried Herder’s Institute in Margburg. Reister is the author of several dozen bibliographies, the topic of which concerns the areas lost by Germans as a result of postwar establishments. His bibliographic interests covered among others Silesia, Wielkopolska and Poznań area, Pomerania and Lubuskie province, as well as Polish-German relations. Bibliographic records, created in the beginning from the perspective of a revisionistic policy, have still been an outstanding supplement to territory bibliographies created in Poland. Because of that, the attention was paid to the scope of Reister’s bibliographies, the choice of materials, but also lacks in valuable Polish writings listed in Polish academic criticism. The researcher highlights the role of Reister’s bibliography for a Polish receiver of these lists.