Anton Dörrer

Anton Dörrer (born June 13, 1886 in Innsbruck ; † March 27, 1968 ibid) was an Austrian historian and folklorist , librarian and archivist .

Life

After attending grammar school in Feldkirch , he studied German in Innsbruck and Florence , which he completed with a doctorate in 1916 . Since 1907 he belonged to the student union AV Austria Innsbruck . From 1919 to 1939 he worked as a librarian in the Innsbruck University Library . At the same time he became involved with Eduard Reut-Nicolussi in the Tyrolean constitutional chancellery , which campaigned for the political rights of South Tyrol . In 1946 he completed his habilitation in folklore under Hermann Wopfner and was appointed lecturer in folklore in 1951 . He later became head of the Tyrolean State Archives .

In 1960 he received an honorary doctorate from the Law Faculty of the University of Innsbruck.

(Selection)

Medieval mystery games in Tyrol , Innsbruck 1930
Schemenlauf in Tyrol and related alpine mask and carnival customs . Innsbruck, 2nd edition 1938 ( digitized version )
Bolzano Citizens Games , Leipzig 1941
Tyrolean carnival as part of the Alpine winter and early spring customs . Vienna 1949 ( digitized version )
Tyrolean games. Orders and spoken texts of the Bolzano Corpus Christi games and related figural processions from the end of the Middle Ages to the decline of enlightened absolutism . Innsbruck 1957 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Dörrer, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian folklorist and historian, librarian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 13, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH	March 27, 1968
Place of death	innsbruck