Josef Karl Mayr (historian)

Josef Karl Mayr (born August 21, 1885 in Salzburg , † December 2, 1960 ) was an Austrian historian and archivist.

Career

His father Josef Mayr from the Innviertel was a notary; the mother Ida Spängler came from a Salzburg merchant and banker family. The father had a job in the Taxenbach notary's office , while the mother moved to the parental Spänglerhaus in Salzburg for the birth. The family later moved to Pregarten because the father took over the notary's office there. There he attended elementary school. From 1896 he went to the Salzburg Collegium Rupertinum up to the Matura on July 5, 1904. Mayr began studying history and geography at the University of Vienna. After two semesters he moved to the University of Innsbruck and studied under Wilhelm Erben . He received his doctorate on March 24, 1909 on "The Linzer Handschrift des Deutschen Vegez". Further studies were carried out at the Vienna Institute for Austrian Historical Research on "Archbishop Wolf Dietrich's Turkish Policy of Salzburg" (state examination).

On October 24, 1911, he started his career in archives, first in the archives for Lower Austria. On June 28, 1912, Mayr moved to the house, court and state archives. In 1919 he was state archivist, in 1922 section councilor, in 1926 senior state archivist and in 1933 court councilor . On May 22, 1944 he took over the management of the archive; and from April 2, 1945 was also responsible for the ministerial archives ("Reichsarchiv Wien"). For political reasons he was retired on February 7, 1946; Unaffected, he remained active in the academic world.

In addition to his main activity in the State Archives, he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna in 1926. From 1932 he was also a university professor, and in 1939 he returned the Venia legendi because of double charges.

Family life

Mayr married Adele Löwl from Salzburg in 1916. She was the daughter of Ferdinand Löwl († 1908, former geography professor at the University of Chernivtsi). The marriage resulted in son Wolfgang, who died in World War II on May 15, 1943 as an aviator in France, and daughter Gertraud.

Awards

• 1935 honorary member of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies
• 1956 Paracelsusring of the city of Salzburg
• 1954 honorary member of the University of Innsbruck

Works (selection)

• Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Salzburg's Turkish policy. Announcements from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies (SLK) 52/1912 and 53/1913.
• The oldest occurrence of the name Untersberg. SLK 62/1922.
• History of the Salzburg central authorities from the middle of the 13th century to the end of the 16th century. SLK 64/1924, 65/1925 and 66/1926.
• A Salzburg example of document criticism of the 16th century. Archival. Journal, 3rd F., 4th Vol., 1927.
• From Wolf Dietrich's last years in government. The Passau war people. SLK 68/1928
• On the history of the emigration of Salzburg Protestants from 1731/32. Yearbook on the history of Protestantism in Austria 52/1931
• The religious refugees. The blood community in the Greater German Empire, ed. v. G. Frh. V. Branka, Graz 1939.
• Peasant riots in Salzburg at the end of the Thirty Years War, SLK 91/1951.
• Emperor Franz's trips to Gastein. Bad Gasteiner Badeblatt, born 15/1955.
• Emperor Franz in Salzburg. SLK 96/1956.
• Two emigrants from Salzburg around 1600. SLK 98/1958.
• March around Salzburg in 1816. SLK 100/1960.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary by Herbert Klein