Georg Maurus Gandershofer (22 January 1780, in

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– 28 August 1843, in

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) was a German librarian and historian. He trained in theology at the abbey in Metten, and from 1803 to 1809 was a teacher and school inspector in

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. In 1809/10 he studied philosophy in

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, where from 1810 to 1814 he served as curator at the university library. From 1814 onward, he worked in the royal court library at Munich, and in 1828, by way of a recommendation from

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, he became an employee of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In 1832 he relocated as a librarian and archivist to

. He also served as librarian of the Historischen Vereins für den Regenkreis (Historical Association for the

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Selected works

* ''Denkwürdigkeiten der Domkirche zu Freysing'', 1824, Memoirs of the cathedral at Freising. * ''Lexikon baierischer Gelehrten und Schriftsteller bis zum Ende des siebenzehnten Jahrhunderts'', (with Anton Maria Kobolt, 1825), Lexicon of Bavarian scholars and writers until the end of the seventeenth century. * ''Kurze chronologische Geschichte der Stadt Moosburg in Bayern'', 1827, short chronological history of the town of Moosburg in Bavaria. * ''Erinnerungen an Lorenz von Westenrieder'', 1830, Memories of Lorenz von Westenrieder. * ''Chronik des Marktes und Badeortes Abach nächst Regensburg'', 1835 – Chronicle of the market and resort town of Abach, near Regensburg.Google Search
(published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gandershofer, Maurus 1780 births 1843 deaths People from Regensburg (district) 19th-century German historians German librarians