Background
Koch, Theodore Wesley was born on August 4, 1871 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Jefferson and Wilhelmina (Bock) Koch.
Koch, Theodore Wesley was born on August 4, 1871 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Jefferson and Wilhelmina (Bock) Koch.
Graduate Central High School, Philadelphia, 1888. Bachelor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1892. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1893, Master of Arts, 1894.
Studied at University of Paris and Collège de France, 1900-1901.
Alden. Engaged 1895-1900 in the preparation of an annotated catalogue of the Dante collection presented by Professor Willard Fiske to Cornell Univercity Library. Assistant, Library of Congress, 1902-1904. Assistant librarian, 1904-1905, librarian, 1905-1916, University of Michigan.
Chief of order division, Library of Congress, 1916-1919.
Librarian, Northwestern University, since 1919. Honorary member Dante Society, London.
Life member Dante Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts, American Library Association. Member American Library Institute (president 1930-1932).
Author: Dante in America (for Dante Society), 1896.
A Book of Carnegie Libraries, 1917. Books in the War, the Romance of Library War Service, 1919. Notes on the German Book Exhibit, Chicago, 1925.
The Florentine Book Fair, 1926.
Reading, a Vice or a Virtue?, 1926. Translator of Nodier’s Francesco Colonna, 1929.
Flaubert’s Bibliomania, 1929. Valery. The Ideal Book, 1930.
Fogazzaro’s Eden Anto, 1930.
Bonnardot’s Mirror of the Parisian Bibliophile, 1931. Haarhaus, The Assembly of Books, 1932. Lacroix, My Republic, 1936.
Zweig, The Old-book Peddler and Other Tales for Bibliophiles, 1937.
Compiler: Cornell University Library Catalogue of the Dante Collection, presented by Willard Fiske, 2 volumes, 1898, 1900. Hand-list of Framed Reproductions of Pictures and Portraits Belonging to Dante Collection, 1900.
A List of Danteiana in American Libraries, supplementing the Catalogue of the Cornell Dante Collection, 1901.
Member Dante Society, London. Member American Library Institute (president 1930-1932).
Married Gertrude Priscilla Humphrey, November 27, 1907.