Johann Loserth

Johann Loserth

Johann Loserth (born September 1, 1846 in Fulnek , Moravia , † August 30, 1936 in Graz ) was an Austrian historian .

Life

Loserth studied in Tübingen and Vienna , where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy. He then worked as a high school teacher. From 1875 he became a professor of general history at the Franz Joseph University in Czernowitz , before moving to the Karl Franzens University Graz in 1893 , where he held a professorship for medieval and modern history until his retirement in 1917.

He was particularly fond of the history of Moravia, Hussitism , the Anabaptists and the history of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Carinthia, Styria and Carniola and the neighboring countries. He took over the scientific legacy of Josef Beck von Mannagetta and Lerchenau on the Anabaptist movement and continued his research.

His extensive literary work includes around 300 titles. His work »Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the Inner Austrian Lands« is regarded as a “landmark” in the historiography of Austrian Protestantism . Since 1893 he was a member of the Historical State Commission for Styria , since 1896 a corresponding member and since 1933 a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , since 1908 a full member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and conferring the title of Hofrat .

Fonts

• Contributions to the history of the Hussite movement, in: Archive for Österr. History Vol. E 55 (1877), 60 (1880), 75 (1889), 82 (1895) and addenda to this in: Communications from the Association for the History of Germans in Böhmen 17 (1879);
• Hus and Wiclif 1884, 1925, engl. 1884;
• Dr. B. Hubmaier and the beginnings of the Anabaptists in Moravia in 1893;
• Studies on church politics in England in the 14th century, in: Session reports of the Österr. Academy d. Knowledge phil.- hist. class vol. e 136 (1897), 156 (1908);
• The Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the inner Austrian countries in the 16th century. 1898;
• History of the later Middle Ages from 1197 to 1492 (= Handbook of Medieval and Modern History; editors: G. v. Below and F. Meinecke Abt. 2) 1903;
• The archive of the House of Stubenberg, Hist. Landes-Komm., Graz, Hauptbd. 1906., Suppl. 1. 1908, 2. 1911 digitized ;
• History of the old Styrian manor and count house Stubenberg. With 27 illustrations and a family tree. Graz 1911 digitized ;
• The Protestant schools of Styria in the 16th century, in: Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica Vol. 55, 1916;
• Inner Austria and the military measures against the Turks in the 16th century (research on the constitutional and administrative history of Styria, vol. XI / 1) 1934;
• Catalog of works in: Festschrift for Johann Loserth z. 80th birthday = magazine d. hist. Verein für Steiermark, Graz 1926, 15-30 as well as I. Pettin, JL, Diss. Graz 1950.
• Files and correspondence on the history of the Counter Reformation in Inner Austria under Ferdinand II, Part Two, Supplements No. 2752. "Trial against Sister Susanna von Oberburg (contra sororem Susannam Obuerburgensem de Michendorff) of the Minkendorf Monastery on November 14, 1592." in: Fontes Rerum Austriacum , second division, LX. Volume, Vienna 1907.

literature

• Karl Völker : The Historian of Inner Austrian Protestantism. in: Die Christliche Welt 50 (1936), pp. 725–728.
• Ingeborg Pettin: Johann Loserth. Unprinted dissertation, Graz 1950.
• Nikolaus von Preradovich : Sudeten German scholars at the University of Graz. In: Bohemia . Volume 3, 1962, pp. 384-401, here p. 395 f. (Digitized version) .
• Hillbrand:  Loserth Johann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1972, p. 328 f. (Direct links on p. 328 , p. 329 ).
• Walter Höflechner : From the Historical Institute of the Karl-Franzens University Graz. In: Herwig Ebner u. a. (Ed.): Research on regional and church history. Festschrift Helmut J. Mezler-Andelberg for his 65th birthday. Self-published by the Institute for History of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Graz 1988, ISBN 3-85375-001-X .
• Karl Schwarz:  Johann Loserth. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3 , Sp. 244-246.
• Pavel Soukup: Johann Loserth (1846–1936). A “scholar of world renown” in Chernivtsi and Graz. In: Karel Hruza (ed.): Austrian historians 1900–1945. CVs and careers in Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia in portraits of the history of science. in the Google Book Search, Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77813-4 , pp. 39–72.

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Loserth  - Sources and full texts

• Johann Loserth - The Communism of the Hutterite Brothers in Moravia
• Literature by and about Johann Loserth in the catalog of the German National Library