World Library People on Postage Stamps

Librarians, library workers, library leaders, and library supporters on postage stamps.

Appreciation is expressed to other bibliophilatelists of the past and present whose efforts assisted in the compilation of this list. For more information go to Library People on Stamps - An Introduction .

Click on the Scott Catalog number to see the postage stamp. Click on the person's name to find out more about the person.

Country	Date of Issue	Scott Catalog Number	Description
Austria	12Sep31	B94	Franz Grillparzer ( 1791-1872). Poet and dramatist. Employee of the Court Library, Vienna, in 1813, and of the Archives of the Ministry of Finance, 1815-56, serving as its director 1832-56.
Austria	1947	489-490	Franz Grillparzer (See above). 18g
Australia	8Aug96	1552	Margaret Windeyer (1866-1939). A librarian at the Public Library of New South Wales, Australia (1901-1926) and leader in the National Council of Women of Australia.
Australia	16Aug2001	1996	Daniel Carl Solander (1733-82). Botanist. Served as Keeper of the Printed Books at the British Museum. Sailed on the Endeavour in 1768 with James Cook to Australia and New Zealand. This stamp was a joint issue with Sweden Scott # 2418 (below).
Chile	Jun53	273-274	Jose Toribio Medina (1852-1932). Bibliographer. Donated his personal library to the National Library of Chile.
China	25Jul55	243	Mao Zedong (also Mao Tse-tung) (1893-1976). President, People’s Republic of China. Library Assistant in Ch’en Tu-Hsiu’s University in Peiping in 1918. Stamp shows Mao and Stalin in Stalin’s office library, Kremlin, Moscow. There are numerous issues depicting Mao including the one below.
China	26Dec83	1899	Mao Zedong (see above). Stamp shows Mao in Library. It was issued on the 90th anniversary of his birth .
Cuba	18Oct.57	C167	D. Figarola Caneda (1852-1926) First Director of the National Library of Cuba (Jose Marti National Library).
Ecuador	1942	406	Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (1859-1950). Statesman, President of Ecuador 1920 and in 1931. Director of the Public Library of Guayaquil in 1890.
Ecuador	26Sep59	C350	Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (see above)
Egypt	19Apr25	105-107	Thoth, Scribe of the Dead, Librarian of the Gods, and God of the Librarians
France	31Jul44	B183	Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683). Controller-General of Finance from 1665 and Minister of the Navy from 1669 on, the chief minister of King Louis XIV. As “Superintenden of the King’s Buildings” he took an active part in the development of the Royal Library (today’s Bibliotheque Nationale) and acted as the Library’s Supervisor.
Germany	1926	351	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). Author, dramatist, poet, scientist, statesman. Supervisor of the Ducal Library, Weimar, 1797-1832, and of the Jena University Library, 1817-1832. This one of many stamp issues for Goethe.
Germany	1926	356	Immanuel Kant (1724-l804). Philosopher. Library Assistant in the Castle Library, Konigsberg, Prussia, 1766-72.
Germany	1926	359	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781). Dramatist and theater critic. Librarian of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel, 1770-81.
Germany	1926	360	Baron von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Philosopher, scientist, mathematician. Librarian of the Ducal Library, Hannover, 1676-90, and of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel, 1690-1716.
Germany	1961	831	Immanuel Kant (see above).
Germany	1961	832	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (see above).
Germany	10Jan85	1434	The Brothers Grimm. Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) Phiologist, Professor of German. Court Librarian to King Jerome of Westphalia in 1808, Librarian of the Electoral Library, Kassel, 1816-29, and Gottingen University 1830-37. Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859). Author and librarian. Several other stamps have been issued (see below).
Germany	1949	B306, B307, B308	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (see above)
Germany	1945	4N11	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (see above)
Germany	1947-49	8N2,8N5, 8N9,8N15. 8N19, 8N30,8N31	Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843). Poet. Court Librarian to the Count of Hessen-Homburg 1804-06.
Germany Berlin	1961	9N184	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (see above).
German Democratic Republic (East Germany)	1950	64	Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Karl (see above).
GDR	1950	66	Baron von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (see above).
GDR	1950	67	Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930). Protestant theologian and church historian. Director-General of the Prussian State Library 1905-21.
GDR	1954	205	Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (see above)
GDR	20Jan70	1170	Holderin, Johann Christian Friedrich (see above)
GDR	24Nov70	1248-1250	Friedrich Engels (1820-1895). Socialist author, collaborator of Karl Marx. During his residence in Manchester (1850-69) he was for a time librarian of the Schiller-Anstalt. Many stamp issues depict Engels (Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and USSR).
GDR	26Nov85	2515a-f	Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm and Jacob with Fairy Tales written by them (see above).
Hungary	1964	1579	Ervin Szabo, First Librarian of the Budapest Municipal Library, founded in 1904. Marxist activist. The Ervin Szabo Metropolitan Library in Budapest is named for him.
Hungary	4Nov77	2505	Ervin Szabo (see above)
Iceland	1Dec78	513	Halldor Hermannsson (1878-1958) served as the Curator of the Fiske Icelandic Collection at the Cornell University Library from 1905 to 1948.
India	28Dec92	1430	Dr. Shiri Shiyali Ramarita Ranganathan (1892-1972). Internationally famous librarian who developed the Five Laws of Librarianship.
Italy	1950	540	Lodovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750). Antiquary and historian. Librarian of the Ambrosiana, Milan, 1694-1700, and to the Duke of Modena, 1700-50.
Netherlands	1950	328	Janus Dousa (Jan van der Does) (1545-1604). Statesman. Curator of Leyden University 1575-1604, and its first Librarian, 1587-91.
Netherlands Antilles	2Feb95	739	Cedric Virginie, a worker in a public library in the Netherlands Antilles. Virginie is in a wheel chair. This stamp and one other were issued to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the Verriet Institute for the Physically Handicapped.
Nicaragua	22Jun2004	2425	Ruben Dario (1867-1916). Writer who worked in National Library. Stamp was issued on the centennial of the publication of the Book “Tierras Solares” by Dario. Stamp shows Dario and book.
Norway	4Oct85	867	Carl Deichman (1705-1780). Founder of the Norway public library system. Stamp was issued on the 200th Anniversary of public libraries in Norway. A gift from Deichman helped start the Oslo Public Library.
Peru	21Aug71	C326	Ricardo Palma (1833-1919). Poet. Reorganized and directed the National Library in Lima. Stamp was issued on the sesquicentennial of the library which was founded in 1821.
Philippines	1949	B1 First Day Cover with B1-B3	Stamp depicts 3 former Directors of the Philippine National Library in Manila. Includes: Teodoro M. Kalaw (1884-1940), Professor of Law. Librarian, Philippine Library and Museum, Manila, 1916-17 and 1929-40; Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera (1857-1925), anthropologist, philologist, physician, public official, author. Librarian of the Philippine Library and Museum, Manila, 1923-25; and Cristobal Epifanio De los Santos (1871-1928), editor, historian, lawgiver, public official. Librarian 1925-28. Part of a set of 3 semi-postals to aid in restoration of war damaged public libraries.
Poland	1944	NB36	Conrad Celtes (Celtis) (1459-1508). Humanist, author, and teacher. Organizer of the Court Library, Vienna, 1497-1508.
Romania	31May58	1222	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). Poet. Professor of Modern Languages. Librarian of Bowdowin College, Brunswick, ME, 1829-1835.
Russia	Mar58	2036	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). Poet. Professor of Modern Languages. Librarian of Bowdowin College, Brunswick, ME, 1829-1835.
St. Vincent	18Nov91	1557	Baron von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (see above). This $2 stamp was issued for the 750^th anniversary of Hannover, Germany. It depicts Leibniz and the ducal library in Hannover where he was in office. On the stamp is printed “..Leibnitz, principal librarian for the Elector of Hannover…”.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines	8Jan96	2258	Minnie Mouse is shown on this stamp as "The Librarian".
Spain	1954	814	Marcelino Menendez y Pelayo (1856-1912). Literary critic and historian. Librarian of the National Library of Spain, Madrid, 1898-1912.
Sweden	16Aug2001	2418	Daniel Carl Solander (1733-82) Botanist on Endeavour and Librarian (see above). Joint issue with Australia Scott # 1996.
Switzerland	1934	B72	Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777). Anatomist, physiologist, botanist, physician, poet. Chief Librarian of the Zurich Municipal Library 1735-36.
Switzerland	1958	B277	Albrecht von Haller (see above)
USA	1847	First U.S. stamp issue.	Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Author, statesman, scientist, inventor, philosopher. Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia for three months in 1733. Numerous U.S. issues and also other countries.
USA	1938	807	Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). Third President of the United States, 1801-09. Cataloged and classified material for the University of Virginia Library as well as his own private library, later the nucleus of the Library of Congress. Numerous issues.
USA	1940	864	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). Poet. Professor of Modern Languages. Librarian of Bowdowin College, Brunswick, ME, 1829-1835.
USA	15Mar07	New Issue	Henry Wadswroth Longfellow (see above).
USA	1960	1171	Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was often referred to as the ‘Patron Saint of Libraries’. He donated $56,162,622 for the construction of 2509 library buildings throughout the English-speaking parts of the world.
USA	3Sep86	2191	John Harvard (1607-1638). Clergyman who bequeathed his library of 400 volumes and approximately 780 pounds sterling to the the New College (founded 1636) in Cambridge which was later renamed Harvard College.
Uruguay	18Mar42	512-517	Francisco Acuna de Figueroa (1790-1862). Poet, author of the Paraguayan and Uruguayan national anthems, Librarian of the National Library of Uruguay, in Montevideo.
Uruguay	24Jan63	693-694	Damaso Antonio Larranaga (1771-1848). Teacher, writer, and founder of the National Library
Vatican	1946	118	Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi (1501-1555) Cardinal (Pope Marcellus II). Librarian of the Vatican 1548-55.
Vatican	25Sep75	583	Bartolomeo Platina. First full-time librarian of the papal library. The stamp shows the fresco by Melozzo di Fordi that depicts Platina's installation as librarian. It is one of three stamps issued on the 500th anniversary of the Vatican Apostolic Library.
Virgin Islands	5Oct2001	964	Saint-John Perse (1887-1975). Author (Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, 1960). Worked for the Library of Congress during World War II.

Eberhart, George "Biblio-philately: Libraries and Librarians on World Postage Stamps" in June, 1982 issue of American Libraries.

Krol, Hans and Richter, John Henry, "Libraries and Archives on Postage Stamps" in Sept./Oct., 1979 and in Nov./Dec., 1979 issues of Topical Time. An authoritative and comprehensive listing of libraries and archives on stamps up to the dates of the articles.

Richter, John Henry and Kaiser, John Boynton, "Librarians and Archivists on Stamps" in Topical Handbook No. 44 of the American Topical Association (includes reprints of articles published in Topical Time in 1956).

Scott Stamp Monthly. Monthly list of new issues by country with Scott Catalog number.

Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue. Annual comprehensive listing of all worldwide stamps.

Wertsman, Vladimir F. "Multicultural Postage Librariana, Part 1: A Survey of Noted Librarians on Stamps Around the World" in Winter 2005 issue of MultiCultural Review.