Ottokar Lorenz (historian)

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Ottokar Lorenz

Ottokar Lorenz (born September 17, 1832 in Iglau , Moravia , † May 13, 1904 in Jena ) was an Austro-German historian and genealogist .

Life

Ottokar Lorenz was born the son of the later high school director in Olomouc Anton Lorenz (1788-1870) and his wife Bernhardine Gilm von Rosenegg (1796-1881). He had attended schools in Iglau and Olomouc and in 1851 began studying at the University of Vienna. Here Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert , Hermann Bonitz and Franz Lott became his formative teachers. After he had finished his studies in 1854, he devoted himself to historical research and completed his habilitation in 1856 at the Vienna University of History. From 1857 he worked at the house, court and state archives and in 1860 became associate professor of Austrian history at the University of Vienna. From 1861 to 1885 Lorenz was a full history professor at the University of Vienna , became rector of the Vienna University in 1880 and was considered a leading Austrian historian of his time. He then held a chair at the University of Jena , where he also became rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semester of 1892 .

He is considered the founder of modern "scientific genealogy ". In his textbook on the entire scientific genealogy, Lorenz took up the increasing interest in heredity at the end of the 19th century. Lorenz "believed he could feel the pulse of world history in the family line of generations", in which a general social rhythm can be seen, which in turn results in the succession of intellectual currents in society. His conclusions were welcomed by biologically oriented natural scientists and folk -thinking cultural philosophers in the 1920s and incorporated into their own considerations. In 1860 Lorenz became a corresponding member, on August 2, 1877 a full member and in 1885 a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg .

Lorenz married Marie Lott (1839–1917) in Vienna in 1862. His sons include the chemist Richard Lorenz (1863–1929) and the musicologist Alfred Ottokar Lorenz (1868–1939). The National Socialist economic historian of the same name Ottokar Lorenz (born 1905) was his grandson.

Works (selection)

  • About the Consular Tribunate. Vienna 1855
  • The acquisition of Austria by Ottokar von Böhmen. A contribution to Austrian history. Vienna 1857 ( online )
  • The Austrian regent hall. Vienna 1857
  • Austria's position in Germany during the first half of the Thirty Years' War. Vienna 1858
  • Leopold III. and the Swiss Confederations. Vienna 1860 ( online )
  • Ottokar II of Bohemia and the Archdiocese of Salzburg. Vienna 1860
  • The Sempach battle songs. Vienna 1861
  • Joseph II and the Belgian Revolution, according to the papers of the Governor General Count Murray 1787. Vienna 1862 ( online )
  • German history in the 13th and 14th centuries 1863/67; 2nd vol. ( Online )
  • History of King Ottokar II of Bohemia and his time. Vienna 1866 ( online )
  • About the election of King Adolf of Nassau. Vienna 1867 ( online )
  • Austrian history. 2nd edition Vienna 1871 ( online )
  • About the Chronicon Thuringicum Viennense, an answer to that of Prof. G. Waitz. Vienna 1871 ( online )
  • History of Alsace from ancient times to the present. Pictures from the political and intellectual life of the German Westmark. Berlin 1871 ( online ), Berlin 1872 ( online ), Berlin 1886 (with Wilhelm Scherer)
  • Three books of history and politics. Berlin 1876
  • About the two Viennese city rights privileges of Emperor Rudolph I Vienna 1865
  • Germany's historical sources in the Middle Ages since the middle of the 13th century Berlin 1870 ( online ); Berlin 1876/77, 3rd edition 1886/87; Graz 1966, 2nd vol.
  • On the history of the Popes. 1871, 2nd edition Berlin 1879 ( online )
  • Election of the Pope and the Empire, a historical study of constitutional and church law. Berlin 1874 ( online ); 1978
  • The science of history in main directions and tasks. Berlin 1886
  • In memory of Schiller's historical teaching post in Jena. Berlin 1889
  • Genealogical manual of the European history of states 1892, Berlin 1895; 3rd edition Stuttgart 1908
  • Genealogical hand and school atlas. Hertz, Berlin 1892 ( digitized version )
  • Goethe's political years. Berlin 1893
  • Statesmen and historians of the nineteenth century; selected images. Berlin 1896
  • The materialistic conception of history, presented systematically for the first time and critically examined. Leipzig 1897
  • Textbook of the entire scientific genealogy. Family tree and pedigree in their historical, sociological and scientific significance Berlin 1898
  • Kaiser Wilhelm and the establishment of the empire 1866 to 1871. 1902

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Künemund, Marc Szydlik (Ed.): Generations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives . VS Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-53115413-8 , p. 66f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Ottokar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lorenz, Ottocar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-German historian and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Iglau
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1904
Place of death Jena