Ottokar Lorenz (17 September 1832 – 13 May 1904) was an Austrian-German

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and

genealogist Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinsh ...

. He was born in

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(now Jihlava, Czech Republic) and died in

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

. He was the father of chemist Richard Lorenz (1863-1929). He studied

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

, history and philosophy in Vienna, where his instructors included

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, Joseph Aschbach and Albert Jäger. From 1861 to 1885, Lorenz was a professor of history at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

, being appointed

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in 1880. Afterwards, he was a professor 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 ...

. He was a founder of modern "scientific

genealogy Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kins ...

". 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). * , two volumes, 1886–87. * ''Geschichte des Elsasses'', ("History of

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"); with

Wilhelm Scherer Wilhelm Scherer (26 April 18416 August 1886) was a German philologist and historian of literature. He was known as a positivist because he based much of his work on "hypotheses on detailed historical research, and rooted every literary phenomeno ...

, 3rd edition 1886.Geschichte des Elsasses
HathiTrust Digital Library * ''Genealogisches Handbuch der europäischen Staatengeschichte'', ("Genealogical textbook of European states history"), (1892). * ''Lehrbuch der wissenschaftlichen Genealogie'', ("Textbook of scientific genealogy"), (1898).

References

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Genealogy and human heredity in Germany around 1900

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bibliography 19th-century German historians Academics of the University of Vienna University of Jena faculty 1832 births 1904 deaths German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-academic-bio-stub