Ernst Nowotny

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Ernst Richard Nowotny (born July 15, 1907 in Vienna ; † January 24, 1995 there ) was an Austrian historian and high school teacher.

Education

After graduating from high school , Nowotny studied history and physical exercises at the University of Vienna and passed the teaching examination for secondary schools in these subjects. In 1930 he was charged with a dissertation on the transmigration of Austrian Protestants under Empress Maria Theresia Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a teacher of history and physical exercise at the private high school of the Catholic Neulandschulsiedlung in Vienna- Grinzing and as an educator in the adjoining boarding school.

Ernst Nowotny was married and had four children.

Second World War and prisoner of war

From September 1, 1939, Nowotny took part as a radio operator in the German raid on Poland and later against Russia as part of Army Group South . In early 1943 he was trained as a paymaster at the German military training area in Döllersheim . Then Nowotny took part in a German-Croatian legion division in the defensive battle against the Yugoslav partisans in Bosnia. In May 1945 he got into Yugoslav captivity near Cilli (now Celje , Slovenia). He survived the hunger march to the Werschetz prison camp (now Vršac , Serbia) near the Romanian border. On December 18, 1948, he was repatriated to Wiener Neustadt . As a pragmatic civil servant before the Second World War , he then continued teaching at public high schools in Vienna.

Salt oven cave

He also devoted himself to the legacy of his father-in-law, school councilor Otto Körber, who died on February 27, 1945. From the Salzofen cave in the Dead Mountains salvaged cave bear skeletons, artifacts and other evidence of the temporary presence of the Paleolithic people in this cave were Körber in the house Bad Aussee stored. After processing the find material in the summer of 1949 and further excavations carried out by Kurt Ehrenberg in the salt furnace cave, a good museum display of the most important finds in the local museum in Bad Aussee was made.

Again new land school and illness

At the request of Ms. Anna Ehm, the founder of the Catholic Neulandschulsiedlung, From 1956, in addition to teaching at the Gymnasium 3, Kundmanngasse, Nowotny also took on teaching duties at the Neulandschul locations Vienna Grinzing and Vienna Laaberg. Nowotny became seriously ill in 1959. After recovering, he worked for the last few years until his retirement in 1968 at the 13th grammar school in Vienna, where he graduated from high school in 1926. In the school year 1966/67 Nowotny wrote a detailed historical account of the 70-year development of the Hietzingen grammar school.

Retirement work as a hospital and art historian

In the following retirement, Nowotny devoted his most extensive research to the history of the Vienna Court Hospital , the results of which he published in 1978. He also wrote some works on the history and art history of his second home, Bad Aussee .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the transmigration of Upper and Inner Austrian Protestants to Transylvania in the 18th century. University of Vienna, phil. Dissertation 1930
  2. ^ Franz Schraml, Theater of War Croatia, Neckargemünd 1962
  3. ↑ cf. Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950, Volume 4, 1969
  4. ^ Chronicle of the Hietzinger Gymnasium 1897-1987
  5. ^ History of the Vienna Court Hospital: with contributions to the history of the incorporated Wolkersdorf rule. Vienna: Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria 1978. (Research on Regional Studies of Lower Austria; 23)
  6. ^ Bad-Aussee, hospital church. Salzburg: Verl. St. Peter 1974 (Christian art centers in Austria; 107)
  7. ↑ The Heilig-Geist-Spital in Bad-Aussee. History of a Styrian hospital and its church. Graz: Self-published by the Historisches Verein der Steiermark 1979. Journal of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark: special issue; 21st
  8. ^ Johann Fortschegger: Sculptor to Mitterndorf. Bad-Aussee 1983 (series of publications by the local museum "Ausseerland"; 5)
  9. ^ The parish church in Bad-Aussee, University of Vienna, specialist library for art history, Austria. Top.-021 / A
personal data
SURNAME Nowotny, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nowotny, Ernst Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1995
Place of death Vienna