Books to give away!

Starting May 10, 2021, we give away books from the legacy of Prof. Hans-Jürgen Hansen. Fiction, illustrated books, encyclopedias, chemistry and much more.

Recently, we secured the book legacy of the chemistry professor Hans-Jürgen Hansen, who passed away in 2015. Hans-Jürgen Hansen was born in 1934 in Hamburg, and studied chemistry in Marburg, Munich and Zurich. He was an internationally recognized expert in organic chemistry and was appointed full professor and director at the Organic Chemistry Institute of the University of Zurich in 1988. He obviously had a wide range of interests and built up a high-quality book collection in many disciplines.

The books which do not fit into our collection will be placed on a book cart in front of the entrance of the Information Center and can be picked up starting Monday, May 10, 2021, 8:00 am. It’s first come, first serve.

The following topics will be added to our book cart one at a time:

Monday, 10.5.21: German Fiction

Wednesday: 12.5.21: French texts, phrasebooks, foreign languages

Friday, 14.5.21: Philosophy, Biographies, Popular Science

Monday, 17.5.21: legends, myths, dictionaries of literary theory, linguistics

Wednesday, 19.5.21: general illustrated books & travel literature / cities / regions

Friday, 21.5.21: Art & General History

Tuesday, 25.5.21: Miscellaneous topics

Thursday, 27.5.21: Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Antiquity

Friday, 28.5.21: Chemistry

Books on previous topics remain on the trolley until they are all gone. What has not been taken away by the end of the semester goes into paper recycling.