Hanns Bohatta

Hanns Bohatta (also: Hans Bohatta ; born December 2, 1864 in Vienna ; † October 30, 1947 ibid) was an Austrian librarian, bibliographer and lexicographer .

Life

Bohatta studied classical philology in Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1889. From 1890 to 1922 he was a civil servant at the University Library of Vienna . Together with Michael Holzmann , he edited the "German Anonymous Lexicon" (7 volumes, 1902–1928) and the "German Pseudonym Lexicon" (1906), cited bibliographically as Holzmann-Bohatta and Holzmann / Bohatta .

Works (selection)

• Practical grammar of the Javanese language . Hartleben, Vienna 1892
• Education and instruction with the Greeks and Romans . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1895. (digitized version)
• English chrestomathy . Hartleben, Vienna 1896
• (With Michael Holzmann): Address book of the libraries of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Carl Fromme, Vienna 1900 (digitized version)
• (With Michael Holzmann): German anonymous lexicon. 7 volumes, 1902–1928, reprographic reprint 1961
• (With Michael Holzmann): German pseudonym lexicon. Academic publishing house, Vienna and Leipzig 1906 (digitized version)
• Attempt a bibliography of the Livres d'heures . Publishing house of the Austrian Library Association, Vienna 1907
• Catalog of the incunabula of the Princely Liechtenstein Fideikommiss Library and the Hauslab collection . Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Vienna 1910. archive.org
• Liturgical Bibliography of the XV. Century with the exception of the Missals and Livres d'heures , Vienna 1911 archive.org
• Bibliography of the Livres d'heures . Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Vienna 1909, 2nd edition 1924
• Attempt of a bibliography of the art theoretical works of Albrecht Dürer . Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Vienna 1928.
• International Bibliography of Bibliographies. A reference work. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1950. (Together with Franz Hodes and Walter Funke)

literature

• Eric Steinhauer :  BOHATTA, Hanns. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 74-76.
• Robert Teichl:  Bohatta, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 420 ( digitized version ).
• Hanns Bohatta (1864-1947). Life and work of the Viennese librarian and especially bibliophile. Author: Georg Winter. In: Wiener Bibliophilen-Gesellschaft annual edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-85252-747-5 , pp. 63–100, list of works pp. 101–113.

Web links

Wikisource: Hanns Bohatta  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Hanns Bohatta in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Hanns Bohatta  in the German Digital Library
• Entry on Bohatta, Hans in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon ) (with portrait photo, around 1900)