Lorenz Mikoletzky

Lorenz Mikoletzky (born May 12, 1945 in Vienna ) is an Austrian archivist and historian with a focus on modern and contemporary history .

Career

Lorenz Mikoletzky grew up in Josefstadt. He attended the Piarist High School and graduated there in 1964. The son of the historian Hanns Leo Mikoletzky studied history and classical archeology at the University of Vienna from 1964 to 1969 . After receiving his doctorate in 1969, he joined the Austrian State Archives . There he was appointed director of the General Administrative Archives Department on February 1, 1991. From July 1, 1994 to December 31, 2011 he was Director General of the Austrian State Archives and Head of the Archives Office.

In January 1993 he was appointed honorary professor for the modern history of Austria at the University of Vienna. He is the executive vice-president of the Association of Austrian Historians and History Associations and member of the board of the Commission for Modern History in Austria. From 1998 to 2003 he was deputy chairman of the historians' commission of the Republic of Austria .

Honors

July 1, 1991: Appointment to the Hofrat
2006: Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
2006: Gold Medal for Services to the State of Vienna
November 7, 2011: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
Honorary member of the Historical Commission of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Honorary member of the Association of Romanian Archivists

Publications

Austria 1938–1945. Documents , archive Verlag: Wien 2006 (Ed. With Brigitte Bailer-Galanda and Roman Sandgruber )
Franz Grillparzer , Federal Chancellery : Vienna 1990
Kaiser Joseph II. , Muster-Schmidt: Göttingen 1979 and 1990
Archival Studies , Austria National Library : Vienna 1981

literature

Austrian State Archives (ed.): Profession: Archivist: Festschrift for Lorenz Mikoletzky (Part I and II), Studienverl. : Innsbruck-Vienna-Bozen 2011

Web links

Literature by and about Lorenz Mikoletzky in the catalog of the German National Library
short curriculum vitae at the historians' commission

Individual evidence

^ Leopold Auer: Mikoletzky, Hanns Leo in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 17 (1994), p. 494 f. ( Online version )
↑ Retirement , reports, website of the Austrian State Archives, undated, accessed on January 1, 2012.
↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
↑ Distinction for Walter Hellmich and Lorenz Mikoletzky , City of Vienna website, February 22, 2006, accessed on November 11, 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Mikoletzky, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna

[1] Leopold Auer: Mikoletzky, Hanns Leo in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 17 (1994), p. 494 f. ( Online version )

[2] Retirement , reports, website of the Austrian State Archives, undated, accessed on January 1, 2012.

[3] List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

[4] Distinction for Walter Hellmich and Lorenz Mikoletzky , City of Vienna website, February 22, 2006, accessed on November 11, 2011.