Fritz Gruber

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Fritz Gruber (born May 28, 1940 in Spittal an der Drau ) is an Austrian mining historian and author on the history of the Tauern and the mining of the Gastein and Rauris valleys . He also has an excellent knowledge of botany and has a herbarium with around 7,000 exsiccates.

Life

Fritz Gruber lives in Böckstein , a district of Bad Gastein , from where he has been conducting mining history research at home and abroad for 30 years. He studied German and English in Vienna and Salzburg and received his doctorate in 1968; his dissertation dealt with medieval and early modern expressions of the "miner's language".

Especially in the area of ​​researching the Tauern , he dealt with the general history of the Gastein Valley, which is also closely linked to the bathing industry. He is also interested in place names and gold mining in the Gastein and Rauris valleys .

In addition to his work as a teacher, he worked as an author in the history of mining and primarily with the recording of regional botanical peculiarities. He works for the botanical identification book for excursions flora of Austria . In the Gastein Valley he was the first to demonstrate the occurrence of 150 plants that had not yet been recorded in this area.

In Bad Gastein he played a key role in the reopening of the local history and folklore museum for the Gastein Valley in Bad Gastein, as well as in the founding of the Altböckstein Montanmuseum .

Publications (excerpt)

  • Hiking guide Schlossalm (80 pages), Stubnerkogel (64 pages) and Graukogel (76 pages), Bad Hofgastein no year, published by Gasteiner Bergbahnen AG.
  • The reasons for the decline of precious metal mining in the Hohe Tauern, 1560–1600 , in: res montanarum 56 (anniversary commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the Montanhistorisches Verein für Österreich), Leoben 2012, pp. 245–282.
  • Precious metal mining in Salzburg and Upper Carinthia up to the beginning of the 19th century , in: Paar, Werner; Günther, Wilhelm; Gruber, Fritz (ed.): Das Buch vom Tauerngold (second, greatly expanded edition of the publication "Schatzkammer Hohe Tauern" from 2000), Salzburg 2006, pp. 193–359.
  • The Rauris Valley. Gold. Mining History , ed. from the market town of Rauris , 2004, 256 pages.
  • Publications on mining history in the series of publications "Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde", "res montanarum" and "Böcksteiner Montana"; T. together with Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Ludwig
  • together with Karl-Heinz Ludwig: Gold and silver mining in the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age. The Salzburg area of ​​Gastein and Rauris , Cologne-Vienna (Böhlau) 1987, 400 pages.
  • Toponymy of the Tauern landscape of Gastein and Rauris , unprinted homework to obtain the teaching qualification for secondary schools (with Univ.-Prof. Dr. I. Reiffenstein), manuscript in the German Institute, Salzburg 1982, 190 pages.
  • together with Karl-Heinz Ludwig: Salzburg's "silver trade" in the 16th century. A contribution to the economic history of precious metals (Böcksteiner Montana 3), Leoben 1980, 59 pages.
  • Mosaic stones on the history of Gastein and its Salzburg surroundings: mining - bathing - buildings - place names - biographies - chronology , ed. from the Rotary Club Bad Gastein 2012 (= 30th supplement to the communications of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies)
  • The gold of the Fuggers. Gastein and Rauris - Mining of the Fuggers in the Salzburger Land , ed. from Fürst Fugger Privatbank, Augsburg 2014.
  • The 14 articles in the peasant war of 1525: language analysis, fact checks, background information and questions , in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde 56 (2016), pp. 105–185.
  • From gold to the radon healing cave: decline and new beginning of precious metal mining in the Hohe Tauern between the 16th and 20th centuries , in: The cut. Journal for Art and Culture in Mining 1–2 / 2016, pp. 14–34.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Salzburg state government on the award ceremony, June 2010
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Spittal an der Drau