Anton Blaschka

Anton Blaschka (born October 7, 1892 in Ober Prausnitz, today Horní Brusnice , Czech Republic, † July 30, 1970 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German Middle Latin philologist .

Life

After attending the State High School in Hostinné , Blaschka studied history and classical philology at the University of Vienna from 1913 to 1916 . Since 1914 he was a soldier in the First World War . From 1919 to 1922 he was a member of the German Christian Social People's Party of the ČSR . From 1921 he worked in the Czechoslovak archive service. From 1922 to 1924 he studied history, German and Slavic studies at the German University in Prague . From 1923 he was an official of the State Archives of the Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior. After receiving his doctorate in 1926 (Prague, dissertation: The Trautenauer Subject Directory from 1651) he was a lecturer from 1929 and from 1933 to 1935 lecturer for the Latin language of the Middle Ages at the German University in Prague . After his habilitation in 1935, he was appointed chief ministerial commissioner for the archive and library service in 1938. From 1939 he headed the archive of the German University in Prague. On April 1, 1939, he joined the NSDAP and became a member of the National Socialist Lecturer Association NSDDB . In 1940 he became a section council. From 1941 to 1945 he taught as an adjunct professor for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages at the German University in Prague. From 1942 to 1945 he was the nominal head of the Bohemian State Archives, actually working as a soldier in the Prague Army Library. In 1944/45 he was a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Prague. Internment took place in May 1945 . From 1945 to 1952 he was a lecturer, from 1952 to 1955 a lecturer and from 1955 to 1959 full professor for historical auxiliary sciences and 1958/59 head of the Middle Ages department at the Institute for General History at the University of Halle-Wittenberg . Since 1965 he was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig .

Fonts (selection)

• “This Irishman”. The song of the Last Judgment in a new look . Prague 1937, OCLC 64546595 .
• The civil status registers in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . Prague 1940, OCLC 602403757 .
• Emperor Karl IV. Youth life and St. Wenceslas legend . Weimar 1956, OCLC 64518300 .

literature

• as editors Horst Gericke, Manfred Lemmer and Walter Zöllner : Orbis mediaevalis. Festival ceremony for Anton Blaschka on his 75th birthday on October 7, 1967 . Weimar 1970, OCLC 909370771 .

Web links

• Regesta Imperii, OPAC
• Biograms of the members of the Historical Commission of the Sudetenland in the founding year 1954