Hugo Blotius

Hugo Blotius (* 1533 in Delft ; † January 29, 1608 in Vienna ) was a Dutch lawyer and librarian .

Life

Blotius studied at the universities of Leuven (1558–1560), Toledo , Paris (1565–1566), Orléans (1567–1568) and Basel .

In 1574, on the intercession of the imperial doctor Johann Crato von Krafftheim, he was appointed Imperial Court Librarian by Emperor Maximilian II . He officially took office on June 15, 1575, as evidenced by the corresponding employment decree from Prague . In 1576 he became professor of rhetoric at the University of Vienna . In the same year he converted from Calvinism to Catholicism .

In 1576 Blotius created an alphabetical catalog of the library holdings, the so-called inventory of 1576, in 1596 a five-volume alphabetical catalog and in 1597 a manuscript inventory. In his employment as the court librarian of the imperial court library in the Minorite Monastery , which was located in a southern extension of the Minorite Church until 1784 , he paid for changes to the building and repairs partly out of his own pocket, although his salary was only paid irregularly by the court.

A codification plan comes from Blotius . In 1576 he made the decision, together with the law teacher Wolfgang Püdler (1525–1595), to bring Austrian customary law into a system, to improve it and to introduce it at his school. However, the project did not come to fruition.

Works

• De mensuris peregrinis Romanis et Viennensibus . ÖNB , manuscript collection, No. 10714
• Bibliotheca in oppido Friesach . ÖNB, Cod. Ser. Nov. 2581

literature

Essays

• Karl Weiß:  Blotius, Hugo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 727.
• Johanna von Ernuszt: The Hungarian relations of Hugo Blotius. Contributions to the history of humanism in the Danube countries from the correspondence of a Viennese humanist in the XVI. Century . In: A Gróf Klebelsberg Kunó Magyar Történetkutató Intézet évkönyve , Vol. 10 (1940), pp. 7–53.
• Hermann Menhardt :  Blotius, Hugo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 316 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Franz Unterkircher: Hugo Blotius and his first successors (1575-1663) . In: Josef Stummvoll (Hrsg.): History of the Austrian National Library . Verlag Pracher, Vienna 1968, pp. 81–127.
• Leendert Brummel: Hugo Blotius and the Leiden University . In: Josef Mayerhöfer (Ed.): Festschrift Josef Stummvoll. To the General Director of the Austrian National Library on his 65th birthday, August 19, 1967, Vol. 1 . Hollinek, Vienna 1970, pp. 152–155.
• Zlatko Herkov: Hugo Blotius. A pioneer for a uniform global measurement system . In: Hugo Blotius: De mensuris peregrinis et Viennensibus . Edinburgh 1977/78, pp. 193-231.
• Gunter Wesener : Influences and validity of Roman common law in the old Austrian countries in the modern era (16th to 18th centuries) (Research on the modern history of private law; Vol. 27). Böhlau, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-205-05234-X , p. 47.
• Christian host: Blotius and his Greek contacts. Leontios Eustratios Philoponos and the Archbishop Gabriel von Achrida in the family book of Hugo Blotius . In: Biblos. Contributions to books, library and writing , vol. 46 (1997), pp. 247-258, ISSN  0006-2022 .
• Brigitte Mersich, Christian host, Max Kraus: Hugo Blotius and his international contacts in the East. The correspondence with the notary of the Hungarian Chancellor, Tiburtius Himelreich . In: Biblos 53, Vienna 2004, pp. 123-136
• Bernhard Siegert : The message of the elephant. Hugo Blotius' project of the Bibliotheca Generis Humani Imperatoriae (1575) . In: Markus Krajewski (Ed.): Projektemacher. For the production of knowledge in the form of failure (Copyrights; Vol. 15). Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931659-56-9 , pp. 67-78.

Monographs

• Hermann Menhardt: The oldest manuscript index in the Vienna court library by Hugo Blotius 1576. Critical edition of the manuscript “Series nova 4451” from 1597 with four appendices . Verlag Rohrer, Vienna 1957 (memoranda of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna / philological-historical class; vol. 76).
• Edith Rühl: The posthumous newspaper collections and the scholarly correspondence of Hugo Blotius, the first librarian of the Vienna court library . Dissertation, University of Vienna, July 11, 1958.
• Justin Stagl : A Story of Curiosity. The art of traveling 1550-1800 (“A history of curiosity”). Böhlau, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99462-0 .

Web links

• Hugo Blotius, imperial librarian in the Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Siegert: The message of the elephant. Hugo Blotius' project of the BIBLIOTHECA GENERIS HUMANI IMPERATORIAE (1575) . In: Markus Krajewski (Ed.): Projektemacher . For the production of knowledge in the preform of failure, No. 15 . Berlin 2004, p. 68 f .
2. ^ Gertraud Leitner: Hugo Blotius and the Strasbourg Circle of Friends. Studies on the correspondence of the first librarian of the Austrian National Library. Ed .: Dissertation, University of Vienna. Vienna 1968, p. 32 .
3. ^ Gertraud Leitner: Hugo Blotius and the Strasbourg Circle of Friends. Studies on the correspondence of the first librarian of the Austrian National Library. Ed .: Dissertation, University of Vienna. Vienna 1968, p. 26-30 .
4. ^ Yearbook of Graf Klebelsberg Kuno Institute for Hungarian Historical Research in Vienna (in Hungarian and German).