Bernard Amtmann 2502279 219308874 2008-06-14T16:35:14Z TwoMightyGods 7271133 [[Category:Canadian booksellers]] '''Bernard Amtmann''' ([[1907]]–[[1979]]), antiquarian [[bookseller]], [[bibliographer]], [[publisher]] and founder of Montreal Book Auctions in 1967 and the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of Canada in 1966, was born in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]] in 1907. Amtmann [[immigration|immigrated]] to [[Canada]] in 1947 to join his brother William Amtmann in [[Ottawa]] where he started a small antiquarian bookselling business, issuing his first catalogue by 1948. He transferred his business to [[Montreal]] in 1950 and began to specialize in [[Canadiana]]. In 1967 Amtmann founded Montreal Book Auctions Ltd. to further promote Canadiana. Following Amtmann’s death in January 1979, Montreal Book Auctions was sold to Canada Book Auctions Ltd. and relocated to [[Toronto]]. Bernard Amtmann was the moving force behind the foundation of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of Canada in 1966 and served as its first president. He made a significant contribution to the field of Canadian bibliography, publishing a number of bibliographies and bibliographic tools, most notably his four-volume ''Contributions to a Short-Title Catalogue of Canadiana'' (1971-1973), ''The Arctic Bibliography'', and ''Contributions to a Dictionary of Canadian Pseudonyms'' (1973). {{DEFAULTSORT:Amtmann, Bernard}} [[Category:Austrian Canadians]] [[Category:1907 births]] [[Category:1979 deaths]] [[Category:Austrian antiquarians]] [[Category:Austrian immigrants to Canada]] [[Category:Bibliographers]] [[Category:Canadian non-fiction writers]] [[Category:People from Vienna]] [[Category:Canadians of Austrian descent]] [[Category:Canadian booksellers]]