Meinrad Tiefenthaler

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Meinrad Tiefenthaler (born March 21, 1902 in Frastanz ; † August 21, 1986 in Gurtis ) was an Austrian historian and archivist .

Life

Meinrad Tiefenthaler, son of the master carpenter Josef Tiefenthaler, high school graduate at the Bundesgymnasium Feldkirch , began studying history, German and folklore at the philosophical faculty of the University of Innsbruck before becoming a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . At the beginning of his professional career, Tiefenthaler held a scientific assistant position with Adolf Helbok at the Institute for Alpine Settlement and Local Studies in Innsbruck. He then completed an archive training with Otto Stolz at the regional government archive in Innsbruck.

On May 1, 1928 Meinrad Tiefenthaler joined the Vorarlberg State Archives , initially as a contract employee, from March 1, 1930 as Unterland archivist and from July 1, 1937 as State archivist. In May 1939, Tiefenthaler succeeded Viktor Kleiner as the head of the State Archives, which he held - interrupted from his military service in the years 1943 to 1945 - until he retired in 1963 due to illness. Meinrad Tiefenthaler also headed the Vorarlberg State Museum from 1946 to 1953 . He was succeeded by Elmar Vonbank after.

In addition, Meinrad Tiefenthaler, who was appointed regional archivist in 1948, worked as an editor of various magazines, such as "Alemannia" and " Heimatkundliche Mitteilungen ", whose first post-war issue he published in 1949. In 1946, Tiefenthaler founded the “Montfort” magazine, the “quarterly journal for the past and present of Vorarlberg”, which he also edited. In addition Meinrad worked Tiefenthaler in numerous regional studies associations, as in the " Bodensee-historical society ", he from 1955 to 1959 as President of the Management Board and appointed him an honorary member in 1968.

Meinrad Tiefenthaler - author of a total of 69 historical treatises, especially on the regional history of Vorarlberg - did a great job as archivist in the development of numerous important sources, saving the archives and libraries of abolished monasteries and modernizing the state archive.

Fonts

  • The ownership structure of St. Gallen in Vorarlberg up to the XIII. Century, dissertation , 1926
  • The Bregenz carnival ride to Mehrerau, In: Vorarlberger Volksblatt , 1934
  • Vorarlberg's first natural recruitment 1771-1773, In: Vorarlberger Volksblatt, 1935
  • Vorarlberg's industry from the middle of the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, In: Vorarlberger Volksblatt, 1937
  • About the Montafon freedom and the cattle market in Schruns, Vorarlberger Landesarchiv, 1937
  • The Vorarlberg sample roll from 1621, Oechelhäuser, 1940
  • About hunting, poachers and wild animals in the Vorarlberger Oberland from: 16th to 19th century, Teutsch, 1941
  • The Vorarlberg Confederation of 1391 , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 70th year 1951, pp. 19–33 ( digitized version )
  • Debt and usury in the Vorarlberger Oberland in the 17th century, In: Montfort 6, 1951/52
  • Historical relationships between Vorarlberg and the rest of the Lake Constance countries , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 71st year 1952, pp. 85-100 ( digitized version )
  • Stadt und Land Vorarlberg in earlier times , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 72nd year 1953–1954, pp. 39–54 ( digitized version )
  • The boundary descriptions in the land register of the Bludenz and Sonnenberg rule from 1608 to 1618, In: Montfort 7, 1955
  • Feldkirch und seine Verkehr , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 73rd year 1955, pp. 123-136 ( digitized version )
  • Vorarlberg, 1809: a struggle for freedom and independence, Land Vorarlberg, 1959
  • Witches and Hexenwahn in Vorarlberg , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 80th year 1962, pp. 29–39
  • Feldkirch and his traffic, In: Montfort 20, 1968

literature

  • Robert Teichl, Austria Institute: Austrians of the Present: Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries, page 310, Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, 1951
  • Karl Heinz Burmeister : Obituary Meinrad Tiefenthaler, in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 105th year 1987, pp. V – VIII ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 136, 2018, pp. 1–303, here: p. 229.
personal data
SURNAME Tiefenthaler, Meinrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Frastanz
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1986
Place of death Gurtis