Otto Guglia

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Otto Franz Guglia (born September 22, 1904 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † April 29, 1984 in Vienna, Austria ) was an Austrian historian , geographer and naturalist .

Live and act

Otto Guglia was the son of Eugen Guglia . He attended in Vienna elementary school and the lower grades of high school , the graduation he put in Graz on where his father was appointed 1919th He then studied history and geography at the universities of Graz , Munich , Würzburg and Vienna . During these years of study he also attended legal and botanical lectures, for example with Karl Fritsch in Graz and with Richard Wettstein , August von Hayek and Friedrich Karl Max Vierhapper in Vienna. In 1927 he was in Vienna with the work The History Josephinian episcopal elections in the German Reich donors Basel and Chur to Dr. phil. PhD . He then worked in the Federal Ministry of Education , including from 1928 in the scientific archive and library service and later also in the university department. From 1941 he worked together with the German archivists Hans Branig , Heinz Buttkus, Eilhard Eilers, Heinz Göring, Hans Goetting and Roland Seeberg-Elverfeldt and the Sudeten German Rudolf Fitz in the archive administration of the Government General . He later became a prisoner of war in the United States .

In 1946 he began working again in the Federal Ministry of Education as head of the ministerial library. In 1952 he was promoted to senior state librarian, in 1961 he was given the professional title of Hofrat . In 1970 he retired and then worked as a freelancer in the cultural section of the Burgenland state government.

Otto Guglia dealt with history and geography, among other things, botany and entomology. Since he was a student in Graz, inspired by his teacher Robert Sieger , Burgenland has been the focus of his research. In 1925 he wrote the seminar paper Plant Geography of Burgenland , later further both botanical and geographical publications followed. He also wrote on other subjects. In 1954 he received a UNESCO award for his historical work, Kampf um Europa . He wrote biographical works on Giovanni Antonio Scopoli , Heinrich Friese and Pál Kitaibel .

In 1969 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Pedagogical Society. In 1973 he was chairman of a committee with Gottfried Traxler, Stephan Aumüller and Franz Sauerzopf, which prepared a celebration of the Burgenland state government in honor of the Dutch scholar Carolus Clusius . From 1974 he was 1st Vice President of the international research association "Pro Clusio" based in Güssing .

Otto Guglia bequeathed his collection to the Illmitz Biological Station on Lake Neusiedl during his lifetime , and later it was transferred to the Burgenland State Museum .

Awards

Fonts

  • On the history of Josephine episcopal elections in the German empire founders Basel and Chur. Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1927, OCLC 83177009 .
  • Struggle for Europe. Federations and attempts at federation in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries and their historical basis. Frick, Vienna 1954, DNB 363808086 .
  • The becoming of Burgenland. Its annexation to Austria 40 years ago in the light of partly unknown material. Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1961, DNB 451727886 .
  • Captions to Robert Löbl: Burgenland. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1962, DNB 453153836 .
  • with Antal Festetics : Plants and animals of Burgenland. 80 remarkable or endangered species in words and pictures. Austrian Federal Publishing House for Education, Science and Art, Vienna 1969, DNB 456841539 .
  • Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788). Introduction to the reprint of: Flora carniolica. Krauss, Vienna 1772. Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1972, pp. 3–33.
  • Carolus Clusius (1526-1609). In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna. 113, 1973, pp. 121-127 ( online ).
  • with Gerald Schlag: Burgenland in old views. Bundesverlag, Vienna 1986, ISBN 978-3-215-06066-3 .

Botanical Articles:

  • To the orchid flora of the Neusiedler See area. In: Phyton. Annales rei botanicae. 2, 1-3, 1950, pp. 153-156 ( online ).
  • The Burgenland flora borders. In: Burgenland homeland sheets . 19, 1957, pp. 145-152 ( online ). Supplement: Issue 20, 1958, pp. 145–146 ( online ).
  • Erythronium dens-canis L. , the dog's tooth in Burgenland. In: Burgenland homeland sheets. 20, 1958, pp. 161-166 ( online ).
  • Newer geobotanical literature from Hungary, which also affects Burgenland. In: Burgenland homeland sheets. 23, 1961, pp. 51-55.
  • From the alpine world of Burgenland. The Bernstein Mountains - Its soil and its vegetation. In: universe. Austrian monthly magazine for nature, technology and economy. 16, 21/22, 1961, pp. 609-613 ( online ).
  • Structure and image of the vegetation and flora in Eastern Styria and southern Burgenland (Stiriacum and Praenoricum). In: Scientific work from Burgenland. 29, 1962, pp. 14-29 ( online ).
  • Land between restlessness and silence: Southern Burgenland. In: Nature & Land. 53, 1967, pp. 1-6 ( online ).
  • Contributions to the geobotany (flora and vegetation) of the Strem valley between Glasing and Hagensdorf (status 1962). In: Scientific work from Burgenland. 40, 1968, pp. 28-44 ( online ).
  • Remarkable things from the flora of the lake area. Historical (Wierzbicki, Kornhuber, Pill) and recent. In: BFB report. 13, 1976, pp. 38-42 ( online ).
  • APP Wierzbicki, his Flora mosoniensis (Wr. Manuscript 1820) and criticism of the same on the basis of the current floristic conditions. In: BFB report. 24, 1977, pp. 72-75 ( online ).
  • Contribution to the vegetation and flora of Burgenland. Bear moss family Lycopodiaceae. In: BFB report. 35, 1980, pp. 1-9 ( online ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ See KVK . This title is used in Franz Quarthal : The Upper Austrian District President Joseph Thaddäus von Sumeraw as Imperial Electoral Commissioner in Kempten and Basel (1793 and 1794). In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive. 100, 1980, pp. 351–377, here p. 351, footnote 2 ( online ) by the journalist Eugenie von Palitschek, born. Long attributed to Vienna 1927 as a dissertation, see KVK , but this title is not listed under publications here .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Heinrich Kunnert : Councilor Dr. Otto Guglia - 60 years. In: Burgenland homeland sheets . 26, 3, 1964, pp. 97-98.
  2. ^ Stefan Lehr: German archivists and their archive policy in the "Generalgouvernement" (1939–1945). In: Robert Kretzschmar (Hrsg.): The German archive system and the National Socialism. Klartext, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-703-1 , pp. 164–172, here p. 165, footnote 6 ( online ).
  3. ↑ a b Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . Volume 79.Böhlau, Vienna 1971, p. 569.
  4. ↑ Address on zobodat.at
  5. ^ Announcements from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Volumes 81-82. Böhlau, Vienna 1974, p. 541.
  6. ↑ a b Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Volumes 75-76. Böhlau, Vienna 1967, p. 486
  7. ^ Announcements from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Volumes 91-92. Böhlau, Vienna 1984, p. 524.
personal data
SURNAME Guglia, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guglia, Otto Franz (full name); Guglia, Otto F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian, geographer and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1984
Place of death Vienna , Austria