Karl Ausserer (historian)
Karl Ausserer , also Carl Ausserer , (born May 28, 1883 in Lichtenwald , Lower Styria , † May 16, 1950 in Vienna ) was an Austrian historian , librarian and archivist .
Life
He was the son of the farmer Emmanuel Ausserer from the Lichtenwald in Lower Styria, now in Slovenia . His uncle was Professor Carl Ausserer (1844–1920), who had acquired Lichtenwald Castle in 1880. Its genealogical roots can be traced back to today's South Tyrol .
After attending grammar school in Trento , Karl Ausserer studied auxiliary sciences and history at the University of Vienna from 1903 . From 1907 he also graduated from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research for two years. After successfully completing his studies, he became a member of the Historical Institute in Rome for a year in 1909 and then joined the Vienna Court Library as state librarian , where he was most recently head of the extensive map collection. In the course of the "annexation" of Austria to the German Reich, Ausserer was dismissed from the library service.
In 1946, Karl Ausserer took over the management of the finance and court chamber archive and was most recently the general state archivist . He was a member of the Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck , the Association for the History of the City of Vienna, the Society of Friends of the National Library Vienna and researched specifically on Tyrol , edited medieval sources and published on genealogy, heraldry and Turkology.
Fonts (selection)
- Cardinal Bernhard von Cles and the election of the Pope in 1534 , Innsbruck, Wagner, 1913.
- Beautiful cities in old Austria. A look at copper engravings by M. Merian and other masters. Explanatory words by Karl Ausserer , Vienna / Leipzig, 1936.
- The alpine ibex. History, distribution, custom and healing, legend, coat of arms, extinction and attempts to reintroduce citizenship , 2nd edition, Vienna, 1946.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Berlin 1935, p. 43.
- Except, Carl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 38.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Ausserer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Carl Ausserer in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Hochedlinger: Austrian archive history. From the late Middle Ages to the end of the paper age , 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Except, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Except, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian historian and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lichtenwald |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1950 |