Theodore Wesley Koch

Philadelphia, 1871 - 1941, Evanston, Illinois

Biographyhttp://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82037904
found: His Dante in America, 1896: t.p. (Theodore W. Koch)

Theodore W. Koch (1871-1941) was for many years a prominent figure in American librarianship. After completing his M.A. degree at Harvard University in 1894, he was employed by the library at Cornell University to catalogue the Fiske Collection of Dante material. He worked at the Library of Congress from 1902 to1904 and then moved on to the library of the University of Michigan, where he served as assistant librarian,1904-1905, and librarian,1905-1916.

A dispute with the Board of Regents led to his dismissal from his post at the University of Michigan so he returned to the Library of Congress, where he served as chief of the order division. During World War I he was involved in the American Library Association's Library War Service program to provide books for soldiers. In 1919 he was appointed librarian of Northwestern University where he served until his death in 1941. http://www.bentley.umich.edu/, Theodore Wesley Koch Papers: 1894-1941 accessed 10/20/2017

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