Otto Hellmuth Stowasser

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Otto Hellmuth Stowasser (born October 27, 1887 in Vienna ; † February 19, 1934 there ) was an Austrian medievalist and archivist .

Life

Otto Hellmuth Stowasser, son of the classical philologist Joseph Maria Stowasser , grew up in Vienna and obtained his Matura there in 1906 . He then studied history at the University of Vienna and became a member of the Corps Symposion Vienna. In 1910 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

After his first employment as archivist in Karlsruhe and Rome, he joined the house, court and state archives in 1914 . From here he completed his habilitation on the history of the Middle Ages and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Vienna . In 1921 he was appointed state archivist and head of the historical department of the house, court and state archives. In this role, he created the order of the archives of the Vienna Hofburg Chapel in particular. In 1923 he became director of the Vienna City Archives, where he created a new archive order , introducing the provenance principle and a sliding archive lock of 30 years. In 1924 he was appointed associate professor for Medieval Studies at the University of Vienna. Here he worked on Austrian diplomacy and constitutional history.

Honorary positions

From 1918 Stowasser was a member of the board of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna . From 1924 to 1925 he was its general secretary and in 1926 its vice-president.

literature

  • K. Fischer: Stowasser, Otto Hellmuth (1887–1934), archivist and historian . In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 , Volume 13, 2009, pp. 334–335

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The middle name is sometimes also given as Heinrich , as in Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, or German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 9, Saur, Munich 1998.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 137 , 43
personal data
SURNAME Stowasser, Otto Hellmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stowasser, Otto Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medievalist and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1934
Place of death Vienna