Ottokar Lorenz Explained

Ottokar Lorenz (17 September 1832 – 13 May 1904) was an Austrian-German historian and genealogist. He was born in Iglau (now Jihlava, Czech Republic) and died in Jena. He was the father of chemist Richard Lorenz (1863-1929).

He studied philology, history and philosophy in Vienna, where his instructors included Hermann Bonitz, Joseph Aschbach and Albert Jäger. From 1861 to 1885, Lorenz was a professor of history at the University of Vienna, being appointed rector in 1880.^[1] Afterwards, he was a professor at the University of Jena.

He was a founder of modern "scientific genealogy". Some of his better written efforts are as follows:

• Deutsche Geschichte im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert, ("German history in the 13th and 14th centuries"), two volumes (1863–67).
• Drei Bücher Geschichte (1876; 2nd ed., 1879) (Three books of History).^[2]
• Book: Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter seit der Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts . W. Hertz . German history from the middle of the 13th Century ., two volumes, 1886–87.
• Geschichte des Elsasses, ("History of Alsace"); with Wilhelm Scherer, 3rd edition 1886.^[3]
• Genealogisches Handbuch der europäischen Staatengeschichte, ("Genealogical textbook of European states history"), (1892).
• Lehrbuch der wissenschaftlichen Genealogie, ("Textbook of scientific genealogy"), (1898).

References

• Ottokar Lorenz @ AEIOU Encyclopedia

External links

• Genealogy and human heredity in Germany around 1900
• OnLine Books Page bibliography

Notes and References

1. http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz54259.html Lorenz, Ottokar
2. Louis I. of Bavaria . 17 . Hashagen . Justus . 31 - 33; see Bibliography, lines 4 and 5 . Ottokar Lorenz, Drei Bücher Geschichte (1876; 2nd ed., 1879).
3. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100375920 Geschichte des Elsasses