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Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich), 1869-1946

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Personal name headingVollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich), 1869-1946
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Variant(s)Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich), b. 1869
Vollbehr, Otto Heinrich Friederich, 1869-
Birth date1869-04-24
Death date1946-05-26
Place of birthKiel (Germany)
Place of deathHöchst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Baden-Baden (Germany)
Field of activityChemistry Rare books Incunabula Book collecting
Profession or occupationChemist Rare book collector Financier
Chemists Capitalists and financiers Book collectors
Found inNUCMC data from LC Manuscript Div. for Collins, R.A. Papers, 1930 (Vollbehr, Otto Heinrich Friederich, b. 1869)
LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Vollbehr, Otto Heinrich Friederich, 1869- ; usage: Otto H.F. Vollbehr; doctor, of Washington, D.C.; collector of rare books and incunabula)
Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Feb. 26, 2007 (Otto H. F. Vollbehr; b. Apr. 27, 1872 (some sources say 1869), Kiel, Germany; d. 1945 (some sources say 1946), Baden-Baden, Germany; chemist, rare book collector, and financier)
DDB Web OPAC, Feb. 26, 2007 (Vollbehr, Otto Heinrich Friederich)
Incunabulum incunabulorum, c1928: page 9 ("... the famous three volume Gutenberg Bible of the Carinthian monastery of St. Paul, acquired in 1926 by Dr. Otto H. F. Vollbehr of Berlin for $305,000, the highest recorded price ever paid for any book")
Deutsche Biographie website, June 13, 2019 (Vollbehr, Otto Heinrich Friederich; life dates 1869-1946; born Kiel; died Frankfurt-Höchst; chemist, entrepreneur)
German Wikipedia, June 13, 2019 (article title: Otto Vollbehr; Otto Heinrich Friedrich Vollbehr (born 24. April 1869 in Kiel; died 18. May 1946 in Frankfurt-Höchst); German chemist and inventor, also a book collector and antiquarian; for unknown reasons he frequently gave his birth year as 1872, but the year 1869 is documented; his incunabula collections were acquired by Henry E. Huntington for his Huntington Library (1924-1926) and by the Library of Congress (1930))
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, June 13, 2019 (Vollbehr, Otto Heinrich Friederich; academic degree: Dr.; gender: male; other names: Vollbehr, Otto; Vollbehr, Otto H.; Vollbehr, Otto H. F.; life dates: 1869-1946; born: Kiel; died: Frankfurt-Höchst; entrepreneur, chemist, inventor, book collector, antiquarian)
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