Kurt Holter

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Kurt Holter (born October 3, 1911 in Wels ; † December 28, 2000 there ) was an Austrian historian and art historian .

Life

Kurt Holter came from a long-established Wels merchant family and attended elementary school and the federal high school in Wels from 1917 to 1930. He then studied oriental studies, art history and history at the University of Vienna . a. with Josef Strzygowski , Julius von Schlosser , Hans Hirsch and Otto Brunner . In 1935 he received his doctorate, in 1936 he passed the state examination at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . From July 1936 he worked as a trainee in the manuscript collection of the Vienna National Library and passed the library exam at the end of 1937. During this time he was a member of the NSDAP and from 1939 involved in the confiscation of books. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and returned from captivity in 1945 and initially worked for the Kremsmünster Abbey . In 1948 he joined the family sanitary ware wholesale company Holter in Wels as an independent businessman. In addition, however, he continued to work scientifically. In 1970 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Salzburg .

In 1953 he re-founded the Museum Association Wels and was its chairman from 1959 to 1994, and from 1964 to 1991 also President of the Upper Austrian Museum Association . 1970 to 1990 he was a board member of the Austrian working group for urban history research .

Holter wrote numerous scientific publications, on the one hand on subjects of book illumination, manuscript studies and librarianship, on the other hand on the regional history of Wels and Upper Austria. He was particularly interested in the protection of monuments and the maintenance of the cityscape, especially in his hometown of Wels.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • The Galen manuscript and the Makamen of Hariri in the Vienna National Library. In: Yearbook of the Art History Collections in Vienna. NF 11, 1937, pp. 1–48, also separately as a yearbook of the Art History Collections in Vienna. Special issue 104. Schroll, Vienna 1937 (dissertation).
  • Chronicle of the Wels art mill and the Fritsch family. Catfish 1949.
  • Old Amber. History of the castle and rule of Pernstein in the Kremstal. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Linz 1951.
  • The Codex Millenarius. Upper Austrian Provincial Archives, Böhlau, Graz / Cologne 1959.
  • Documents and registers on the cultural history of the judicial district of Wels (= archival preparatory work on Austrian art topography. Volume 34 / I). Upper Austrian Museum Association, Linz 1980.
  • Farmhouse research in the judicial district of Wels. Settlement, rule and architectural studies. In: Upper Austrian Museum Association (Hrsg.): Contributions to regional studies of Upper Austria. 1, 8, Linz 1983, 183 pages.
  • Book art - manuscripts - libraries. Contributions to Central European book culture from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Edited by Georg Heilingsetzer and Winfried Stelzer . 2 volumes, Linz 1996, ISBN 3-9500627-0-X (collected small writings).

literature

  • Walter Aspernig: Kurt Holter (1911-2000). In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. 147/1, Linz 2002, pp. 671-673 ( PDF (1.5 MB) on ZOBODAT ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murray G. Hall , Christina Köstner: "... to get hold of all kinds of things for the national library ..." An Austrian institution during the Nazi era. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-205-77504-X , pp. 85–86 u. ö.
  2. ↑ Discussion in the communications of the Society for Regional Studies and Monument Preservation of Upper Austria. 10_1, Linz 1980, p. 2 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
personal data
SURNAME Holter, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH catfish
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2000
Place of death catfish