Otto Meyer (historian)

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Otto Meyer (born September 21, 1906 in Munich ; † January 11, 2000 in Hösbach ) was a German historian and professor at the universities of Bamberg and Würzburg . The focus of his research was the medieval history and regional history of the Franconian and Thuringian regions.

life and career

Meyer was from 1930 to 1934 assistant at Ulrich Stutz's university . In 1935 his teaching position in Berlin was revoked for political reasons. In 1939 and 1940 he worked for Paul Fridolin Kehr . His habilitation took place in Marburg in 1941. He served from 1945 to 1949 as the acting manager of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , appointed by the American military administration , whose library was then housed in Pommersfelden (in Pommersfelden Castle above Bamberg ). When the decision to move to Munich was made, he had to resign. He received teaching postings for medieval history at the Phil. Theol. Bamberg University of Applied Sciences in 1947 and as a lecturer in Medieval History with special emphasis on historical auxiliary sciences and Middle Latin philology at the University of Würzburg .

From 1952 to 1960 he was first chairman of the historical association for Bamberg , later he became honorary chairman. From 1962 he was a professor in Würzburg. Even after his retirement he held regular courses on regional history and library studies. He was brought in as a consultant for the development of book studies at the University of Erlangen . In 1995 he married the university professor Elisabeth Roth . Since 1934 he was an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Benedictine Academy and holder of the Papal Order of St. Gregory . On January 25, 1993, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Meyer's students include a. Alfred Wendehorst , Klaus Arnold , Jürgen Petersohn , Ernst-Günter Krenig , Gerd Zimmermann , Peter Johanek , Werner E. Gerabek , Harald Parigger , Hans-Martin Weikmann , Stefan Krimm , Dieter Weber, Karl Südekum , Karin Dengler-Schreiber , Roman Fischer , Barbara Scholkmann and Matthias Thumser .

The Otto Meyer and Elisabeth Roth Foundation is named after Otto Meyer and his wife, the folklorist Elisabeth Roth (1920–2010) . The Otto Meyer and Elisabeth Roth Prize is awarded annually for outstanding doctorates on topics relating to rural areas in Franconia.

Fonts

  • Varia Franconiae Historica. Essays - studies - lectures on the history of Franconia. 1st and 2nd volume 1981. XV, 921 pp., 3rd volume 1986. VIII, 475 pp.
  • Edited in association with Renate Klauser : Clavis medievalis. Small dictionary of medieval research . Wiesbaden 1962, 1966
  • Bamberg and the book . 2nd edition supplemented by bibliographical references. 1966

literature

  • Nikola Becker: The re-establishment of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Bavaria from 1944 in the field of tension between Theodor Mayer, Otto Meyer, Walter Goetz and Friedrich Baethgen. In: Journal for Bavarian State History 77 (2014), pp. 43–68.
  • Ludwig Reichert (Ed.): Scriptorum Opus: Schreiber-Mönch am Werk. Prof. Dr. Otto Meyer on his 65th birthday on September 21, 1971. Wiesbaden 1971
  • Gerd Zimmermann : As a grateful memory of University Professor Dr. Dr. hc Otto Meyer, honorary member of the Bamberg Historical Society since 1954 (* September 21, 1906, † January 11, 2000). In: Report of the Historisches Verein Bamberg 136 (2000), 6–9
  • Peter Johanek : Otto Meyer. Obituary. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 56 (2000), pp. 843–845. ( Digitized version )

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 13.
  2. ^ University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  3. ↑ Now under the title Res Medii Aevi
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2000
Place of death Hösbach