{{Short description|German organ expert (1936–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Uwe Pape | image = Uwe Pape.jpg | image_upright = | caption = Pape in 2013 | birth_date = {{birth date|1937|05|05|df=y}} | birth_place = Bremen, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|08|13|1937|05|05|df=y}} | death_place = Berlin, Germany | education = {{plainlist| * Georg-August-Universität * TU Braunschweig }} | occupation = {{plainlist| * Business information scientist * Organ expert | Academic teacher }} | organizations = {{plainlist| * Technische Universität Berlin * Dresden University of Technology * International Association for Organ Documentation }} | awards = }} '''Uwe Pape''' (5 May 1936 – 13 August 2023<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gdo.de/aktuelles/personelles/personelles-detail/uwe-pape|title=Uwe Pape – Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde|language=de|access-date=25 May 2024|publisher=www.gdo.de}}</ref>) was a German business information scientist and organ expert.

==Early life and education== Pape was born in Bremen. After graduating from gymnasium there, Pape studied mathematics, physics, pedagogy and philosophy at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen from 1955 to 1959, graduating with a diploma and a state examination. In 1965, he received his scientific doctorate in computing technology, with advisor Horst Herrmann at the TU Braunschweig, where he was a research assistant from 1959 to 1971.<ref name="Pape" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbbs_derivate_00027605/WiSe1966-67_SoSe1967.pdf |title=Personal- und Vorlesungsverzeichnis 1966/67 |last= |first= |date= |website=TU Braunschweig |publisher= |access-date=27 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="Wirtschaftsinformatik Genealogie">{{cite web | title=WIGE 2.0 | website=Wirtschaftsinformatik Genealogie | url=http://www.wige.net/module.php?module=person&persnr=773 | language=de | access-date=27 February 2021}}</ref>

==Career== From 1971 to 2001, Pape was professor in business informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin. He was visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge in Massachusetts in 1974 and 1984/1985, at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1975, at the University of Texas at Austin in 1976, and at the University of Szczecin from 1988 to 1998. In Dresden, he developed a new faculty for traffic ({{Ill|Fakultät Verkehrswissenschaften „Friedrich List“|de|lt=Fakultät Verkehrswissenschaften}}) at the Dresden University of Technology, responsible for the economics course.<ref name="Pape" />

His research focused on optimisation methods in graphs and networks and optimisation methods in logistics, especially maritime transport logistics. A long-standing cooperation with the BLG Logistics and the Hamburger Hafen und Logistik. Publications appeared with the publishers De Gruyter, Hanser and Springer as well as in journals of operations research and {{Ill|applied informatic|de|Angewandte Informatik}}.

=== Organ expert === Pape had his first contact with organ building in 1953 at the Bremen Liebfrauenkirche where he was a student of Harald Wolff. During his studies he had contact with the organ builder {{ill|Paul Ott|de|Paul Ott (Orgelbauer)}}.<ref name="Pape" /> Pape began to inventory the organs of the Braunschweig Lutheran Church in 1959. In 1962, he founded a publishing house for organ building history. Pape works as a freelance organ expert for regional churches and foundations in Berlin, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Saxony. From 1985 to 2016, he led a research project on organ documentation which resulted in an organ database at the TU Berlin.<ref name="TUB" /><ref name="Hanke" /> Together with Paul Peeters from Gothenburg and Karl Schütz from Vienna, Pape was one of the founders of the International Association for Organ Documentation (IAOD) in 1990.<ref>[https://www.iaod.eu/ International Association for Organ Documentation (IAOD)], retrieved 20 February 2021.</ref> He has made a significant contribution to the documentary indexing of the northern German organ landscape. Since 2000 he has been a member of the Vente Foundation (''Stichting Utrecht Orgelarchief {{Ill|Maarten Albert Vente|de}}'').<ref name="Pape" /><ref>[https://www.utrechtsorgelarchief.nl/ Vente-Stiftung], retrieved 20 February 2021.</ref>

== Publications == === Business === * with Detlef Karras, Lutz Kredel: ''Entwicklungsumgebungen für Expertensysteme. Vergleichende Darstellung ausgewählter Systeme''. de Gruyter, Berlin among others 1987, {{ISBN|3-11-011294-9}}. * with T. Frauenstein, O. Wagner: ''Objektorientierte Sprachkonzepte und diskrete Simulation : Klassifikation, Vergleich und Bewertung von Konzepten der Programmiersprachen Simula 67, Modula 2, Pascal, Smalltalk 80 und Beta aus objektorientierter Sicht vor dem Hintergrund des Anwendungsgebietes der diskreten Simulation''. Springer, Berlin among others 1990, {{ISBN|3-540-53288-9}}.

=== History of organ building === '''Monographs and essays''' * with Karl Heinz Bielefeld: ''Friedrich Werder – August von Werder. Orgelbauer in Elliehausen und Höckelheim.'' (''Norddeutsche Orgelbauer und ihre Werke.'' Vol. 10). Pape, Berlin 2017, {{ISBN|978-3-921140-20-8}}. * ''Organographia Historica Hildesiensis. Orgeln und Orgelbauer in Hildesheim.'' Pape, Berlin 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-921140-93-2}}. * with Georg Schloetmann: ''175 Jahre Emil Hammer Orgelbau.'' Pape, Berlin 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-921140-91-8}}. * {{cite book | title = ''Ernst Palandt, E. Palandt & Sohnle, Hildesheimer Orgelbauwerkstatt'' | series = Norddeutsche Orgelbauer und ihre Werke | volume = 8 | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2011 | isbn = 978-3-92-114089-5 }} * {{cite book | title = Heinrich Schaper, August Schaper | series = Norddeutsche Orgelbauer und ihre Werke | volume = 6 | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2009 | isbn = 978-3-92-114082-6 }} * {{cite book | title = Die Orgeln des Herzogtums Braunschweig vor 1810 | series = {{Ill|Acta Organologica|de}} | volume = 30 | date = 2008 | pages = 89–242 }} * {{cite book | title = Orgelbauerfamilie Boden in Helmstedt und Halberstadt | series = Norddeutsche Orgelbauer und ihre Werke | volume = 4 | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2006 | isbn = 3-921140-69-2 }} * {{cite book | title = Carl Giesecke – Orgelbauer und Fabrikant von Zungenstimmen in Göttingen | editor = Roland Behrens | editor2 = Christoph Grohmann | series = Dulce Melos Organorum. Festschrift Alfred Reichling zum 70. Geburtstag | publisher = Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde | location = Mettlach | date = 2005 | pages = 385–422 }} * {{cite book | author = with Alfred Schirge | title = Die Orgelbauerfamilie Papenius und ihre Schüler | series = Norddeutsche Orgelbauer und ihre Werke | volume = 3 | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2005 | isbn = 3-921140-68-4 }} * {{cite book | title = Historische Orgeln in Brandenburg und Berlin | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2004 | isbn = 3-921140-65-X }} * {{cite book | title = Orgeln in Berlin | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2003 | isbn = 3-921140-62-5 }} * {{cite book | author = with Winfried Topp | title = Orgeln und Orgelbauer in Bremen | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | edition = 3rd | date = 2003 | isbn = 3-921140-64-1 }} * {{cite book | title = Norddeutsche Orgelbauer und ihre Werke | series = Norddeutsche Orgeln | volume = 2 | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2001 | isbn = 3-921140-54-4 }} * {{cite book | title = Die Orgeln der Stadt Celle | series = Norddeutsche Orgeln | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2000 | isbn = 3-921140-55-2 }} * {{cite book | title = Paul Ott – Protagonist des Baus von Schleifladenorgeln zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen | editor = Alfred Reichling | series = Aspekte der Orgelbewegung | publisher = Merseburger | location = Berlin, Kassel | date = 1995 | isbn = 3-87537-261-1 | pages = 263–298 }} * {{cite book | title = Die Orgeln der Stadt Bremen. Ein Auszug aus der Datenbank Berlin | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 1994 | isbn = 3-921140-43-9 }} * {{cite book | title = The Tracker Organ Revival in America = Die Orgelbewegung in Amerika | series = Veröffentlichung der Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 1977 | isbn = 3-921140-16-1 }} * {{cite book | title = Philipp Furtwängler (1800–1867) – Orgelbauer in Elze bei Hannover | work = ISO-Information | volume = 11 | date = 1974 | pages = 777–798 }} * {{cite book | title = Die Orgeln der Stadt Wolfenbüttel | series = Norddeutsche Orgeln | publisher = Pape | location = Wolfenbüttel | date = 1973 | isbn = 3-921140-11-0 }} * {{cite book | title = Die Orgeln des Landkreises Braunschweig | series = Norddeutsche Orgeln | publisher = Pape | location = Wolfenbüttel | date = 1968 | isbn = 3-921140-07-2 }} * {{cite book | title = Die Orgeln der Stadt Braunschweig | series = Norddeutsche Orgeln | publisher = Pape | location = Wolfenbüttel | date = 1966 | isbn = 3-921140-04-8 }} * Articles: ''Buchholz, Carl August''; ''Führer, Alfred''; ''Furtwängler, Familie''; ''Giesecke, Familie''; ''Gloger, Familie''; ''Grüneberg, Familie''; ''Lütkemüller, Friedrich Hermann''; ''Reubke, Familie''; ''Röver, Familie''; ''Scherer, Familie''; ''Schuke, Familie''. In ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. Kassel, Bärenreiter 1999–2007.

'''Editor''' * {{cite encyclopedia | editor = Wolfram Hackel | editor2 = Christhard Kirchner | title = Berlin, Brandenburg und Umgebung | encyclopedia = Lexikon norddeutscher Orgelbauer | volume = 4 | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2017 | isbn = 978-3-92-114006-2 }} * {{cite encyclopedia | editor = Wolfram Hackel | title = Sachsen-Anhalt und Umgebung | encyclopedia = Lexikon norddeutscher Orgelbauer | volume = 3 | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2015 | isbn = 978-3-92-114098-7 }} * {{cite encyclopedia | title = Sachsen und Umgebung | encyclopedia = Lexikon norddeutscher Orgelbauer | volume = 2 | editor = Wolfram Hackel | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2012 | isbn = 978-3-92-114092-5 }} * {{cite encyclopedia | title = Thüringen und Umgebung | encyclopedia = Lexikon norddeutscher Orgelbauer | volume = 1 | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2009 | isbn = 978-3-921140-86-4 }} * {{cite book | title = Die Orgeln im St. Petri Dom zu Bremen | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 2002 | isbn = 3-921140-56-0 }} * {{cite book | title = Das Werkstattbuch des Orgelbauers Christian Vater | publisher = Pape | series = Quellen zur Geschichte der Stadt Hannover | location=Berlin | date = 2001 | isbn = 3-921140-60-9 }} * {{cite book | title = Restaurierung pneumatischer Orgeln. Tagungsbericht der IAOD-Tagung über die Restaurierung pneumatischer Orgeln im August 1993 in Berlin | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 1995 | isbn = 3-921140-46-3 }} * {{cite book | editor = Berthold Schwarz | title = 500 Jahre Orgeln in Berliner Evangelischen Kirchen | series = Veröffentlichung der Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde | publisher = Pape | location = Berlin | date = 1991 | isbn=3-921140-34-X }}

== References == {{Reflist | refs =

<ref name="Hanke">{{cite web | last = Hanke | first = Wolfgang | url = https://kulturklassik.de/tag/dr-uwe-pape/ | title = Der zweite Band des Lexikons norddeutscher Orgelbauer erschien im Berliner Pape Verlag | publisher = Kultur, Klassik und Kirchenmusik in Berlin und Brandenburg | date = 15 August 2012 | language = de | access-date = 27 February 2021 }}</ref>

<ref name="Pape">{{cite web | url = http://www.pape-verlag.de/pape.htm | title = Prof. Dr. Uwe Pape | publisher = Pape-Verlag | location = Berlin | date = | language = de | access-date = 27 February 2021 }}</ref>

<ref name="TUB">{{cite web | url = https://archiv.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/pi/1999/pi167.htm | title = Was Sie schon immer über Orgeln wissen wollten / Die Orgeldatenbank ORDA der TU Berlin kann jetzt auch über das Internet abgerufen werden | publisher = TU Berlin | date = 6 August 1999 | language = de | access-date = 27 February 2021 }}</ref> }}

== External links == * {{DNB portal|130086770}} * {{Official website|http://www.pape-verlag.de/}} * [https://iaod.eu/publikationen/ IAOD – Publikationen / Monographien zur Orgeldokumentation] (in German) International Association for Organ Documentation (IAOD) 2020 * [https://www.gdo.de/veroeffentlichungen/gesamtliste Veröffentlichungen der GdO] (list of publications, in German) Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde 2021

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