Ignaz Zibermayr

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Ignaz Zibermayr (born June 2, 1878 in St. Florian near Linz , † October 18, 1966 in Linz ) was an Austrian historian and archivist .

Life

Ignaz Zibermayr was born as the son of a St. Florian innkeeper couple. He studied history at the Universities of Munich and Vienna with Ludwig Traube and Oswald Redlich .

After graduating from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna and a stay at the Historical Institute in Rome , he was director of the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives from 1903 to 1946 and expanded it from a one-man business to a scientific center for regional history.

From 1922 to 1938 he was president of the Upper Austrian Museum Association . In 1945 he became a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Zibermayr wrote numerous scientific publications on the history of Upper Austria .

Publications

  • Out of my life. Linz 1935.
  • Noricum, Bavaria and Austria. Lorch as the capital and the introduction of Christianity. Linz 1944.
  • The Upper Austrian Provincial Archives in Linz. Linz 1961.

Awards

  • Naming of the Zibermayrstrasse in Linz-Oed

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. estate Ignaz Zibermayr, Upper Austrian State Archives
  2. Georg Heilingsetzer : Ignaz Zibermayr (1878–1966). In: Communications Society for Regional Studies Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 38, Issue 3–4, Linz 2008, p. 24 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).