Hans Zotter

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Hans Zotter (2019)

Hans Zotter (born December 31, 1944 in Weiz ) is an Austrian librarian and historian . He is married to the Austrian librarian Heidi Zotter-Straka .

Life

Hans Zotter studied history and German at the University of Graz and did his doctorate under Friedrich Hausmann with a thesis on the history of the Dominicans in Inner Austria during the Middle Ages. He then completed the 52nd training course (1968–1971) at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna, where Heinrich Fichtenau and Heinrich Appelt were his teachers. He then went to the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome as a scholarship holder for two years, where he worked on the document edition for Pope Innocent III. collaborated. In 1973 he received a scholarship for the Austrian Cultural Institute in Paris, where he did the preparatory work for his bibliography of facsimile manuscripts.

In 1974 he took up a position in the Graz University Library in the manuscript department, of which he took over in 1976. From 1980 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Graz and as a trainer in the field of Austrian professional library training in Vienna and Graz. Between 1997 and 2002 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland . During these years he expanded the collection of manuscripts and incunabula into a department for special collections, which now comprised all printed material holdings between 1501 and 1900, the map collection and the literary estates. The further expansion included the establishment of an own restoration workshop (1986) and a digitization department (1997). As one of the first libraries, the Graz University Library was able to offer an online manuscript catalog in 1996 and an incunabula catalog in 2000. The development of equipment for object-oriented digitization also fell during this time ( Grazer Buchtisch ).

Hans Zotter has curated numerous book exhibitions and published a large number of exhibition catalogs and specialist articles. His publications focused on facsimile editions, medical history , historical household and cookbooks , digitization and codicology as well as research on scriptories .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The history of the Dominicans in Inner Austria during the Middle Ages. Diss. Graz, 1969
  • Bibliography of facsimile manuscripts. Akademische Druck und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1976. 2nd expanded edition on disk 1993, ISBN 3201016551 , 3rd edition online 1999
  • Ancient medicine. The collective medical manuscript Cod. Vindobonensis 93 in Latin and German. Academic printing and Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1980 (= Interpretationes ad codices. Volume 2); 2nd, improved edition, ibid. 1986, ISBN 3-201-01310-2 .
  • The book of healthy living. Ibn Butlan's health tables in the illustrated German translation by Michael Herr. Based on the Strasbourg 1533 edition published by Hans Schott. Graz 1988, ISBN 3201014338
  • Medicina antiqua: Codex Vindobonensis 93 of the Austrian National Library. Comment from Hans Zotter. [Reduced facsimile edition]. Akad. Dr.- u. Verl.-Anst., Graz 1996, ISBN 3201016594 (Highlights of Book Art, Volume 6)
  • Manuscript catalog of the University Library Graz
  • The incunabula of the Graz University Library
  • Scripta manent. The Romanesque scriptorium of the Augustinian Canons of Seckau in Styria. Graz 2020.

literature

  • Trends, megatrends, dead ends. Review and outlook after 35 years in the special collections of the University Library Graz. In: Norbert Schnetzer (Ed.): Trends, megatrends, dead ends. The special collections in the 21st century. Festive colloquium for Dr. Hans Zotter as part of the 30th Austrian Librarian Day "The Ne (x) t Generation - The Libraries' Offer" (publications of the Association of Austrian Librarians, Volume 8), Wolfgang Neugebauer Verlag GesmbH, Graz-Feldkirch 2010, ISBN 9783853762875

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heidi (Heidelinde Helga) Zotter-Straka, librarian at the Graz University Library. In: biografiA - biographical database and lexicon of Austrian women. Retrieved January 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Bibliographical evidence of the dissertation
  3. ↑ Medal of Appreciation. In: VÖB website. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zotter, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian librarian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Wheat