Oswald Holder-Egger

Oswald Holder-Egger (born August 19, 1851 in Bischofswerder , West Prussia, † November 1, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German Middle-Latin philologist and paleographer .

Life

Oswald Holder-Egger did his doctorate on the world chronicle of Sulpicius Severus . From 1875 to 1888 he was an employee (Scriptores) and from 1888 to 1911 a member of the central management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , head of the Scriptores and Epistolae departments. In 1896 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1902 to 1905 he was elected but not appointed chairman of the central management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Today his library, together with the library of Ludwig Traube, forms the core of the MGH library.

Fonts

About the world chronicle of the so-called Severus Sulpitius and southern Gaulish annals of the fifth century. A source investigation. Goettingen 1875.

literature

Herbert Grundmann : Holder-Egger, Oswald. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 526 ( digitized version ).
Karl Jordan : Holder-Egger and the plan of his appointment to Kiel. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Vol. 17, 1961, pp. 540-545 .
Karl Zeumer : Oswald Holder-Egger † November 1, 1911. An obituary. In: New archive of the society for older German history . Vol. 37, 1912, pp. 821-854 .

Web links

Biographical information on the website of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica project
Works by and about Holder-Egger in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 117.

personal data
SURNAME	Holder-Egger, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medievalist and palaeographer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 19, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bischofswerder , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	November 1, 1911
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 117.