Klaus Mlynek (born 16 January 1936) is a German historian and scientific archivist. The long-term director of the Stadtarchiv Hannover is one of the editors and authors of the ', an encyclopedia of

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

Life

Born in

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

, Poland, Mlynek studied history,

History of Christianity The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, Christian countries, and the Christians with their various denominations, from the 1st century to the present. Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teach ...

and

history of law Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilisations and operates in the wider context of social history. Certain jurists and hist ...

at the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

and

archival science Archival science, or archival studies, is the study and theory of building and curating archives, which are collections of documents, recordings and data storage devices. To build and curate an archive, one must acquire and evaluate recorded m ...

at the , completing with the

state examination The ("state examination" or "exam by state"; pl.: ''Staatsexamina'') is a German government licensing examination that future physicians, dentists, teachers, pharmacists, food chemists, psychotherapists and jurists (i.e., lawyers, judges, p ...

(german: Staatsexamen) in 1957. The following year, he received his diploma as scientific archivist. The

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

followed in 1961. After working at the and the archive of the

German Academy of Sciences at Berlin The German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, german: Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (DAW), in 1972 renamed the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (''Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR (AdW)''), was the most eminent research institution ...

from 1977 to 1997,The Stadtlexikon Hannover calls "1997" (back cover and p. 702), the database of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library "1999" under the bibliography result: Karljosef Kreter, Gerhard Schneider (eds.): ''Stadt und Überlieferung. Commemorative publication for Klaus Mlynek'', in ', , Hanover 1999, Mylnek was director of the archives of Hanover. His focus of research have been aspects of Hanover's urban history.

Publications

Mlynek worked with Waldemar R. Röhrbein, the long-standing director of the

Historisches Museum Hannover (german: Historisches Museum Hannover) is an historical museum situated in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. The museum was founded in 1903 as the Homeland Museum of the City of Hanover (). Its collections are related to the histor ...

, on several publications: * 1994: ', ** Vol. 1: ''Von den Anfängen bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts''.''Von den Anfängen bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts''
on WorldCat in collaboration with

Helmut Plath Helmut is a German name. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth, and Hellmuth. From old German, the first element deriving from either ''heil'' ("healthy") or ''hiltja'' ("battle"), and the second from ''muot'' ("spirit, mind, mood"). Helmut may refer ...

, Siegfried Müller and Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer, ** Vol. 2: ''Vom Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in die Gegenwart'', in collaboration with

Dieter Brosius Dieter or dieter may refer to: * A person committed to dieting People Dieter is a German given name (), a short form of Dietrich, from ''theod+ric'' "people ruler", see Theodoric. Given name *Dieter Althaus (born 1958), German politician * ...

, He worked on other publications after he retired: * 2001: ' * 2002: ' * 2009: '.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mlynek, Klaus German archivists 20th-century German historians German editors 1936 births Living people Writers from Poznań