Johannes Mötsch (born 8 July 1949 in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

) is a German

archivist An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to records and archives determined to have long-term value. The records maintained by an archivist can consis ...

and

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 st ...

Life

Johannes Mötsch studied

History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

and Latin

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

from 1970 to 1978 at the

Universität Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

and graduated in 1979. In 1978 he started, as trainee teacher, the preliminary office at the Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz and attended the Archivschule Marburg until 1980. Until 1993 he worked at the Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz and taught in 1989 at the Marburger Archivschule. In 1993 he went to the thuringian Hauptstaatsarchiv

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg an ...

, where he worked until 1997. In the same year he overtook as archive director the management of the Thüringisches Staatsarchiv in

Meiningen Meiningen () is a town in the southern part of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in the region of Franconia and has a population of around 25,000 (2021).

. He is a member of the Historische Kommission für Thüringen.

Works (selection)

* ''Balduin von Luxemburg. Erzbischof von Trier — Kurfürst des Reiches 1285–1354.'' Festschrift aus Anlaß des 700. Geburtsjahres, hrsg. von Franz-Josef Heyen und Johannes Mötsch ( Quellen und Abhandlungen zur mittelrheinischen Kirchengeschichte 53), Mainz 1985 * ''Regesten des Archivs der Grafen von Sponheim 1065–1437'', Teil 1-5, bearbeitet von Johannes Mötsch, Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland - Pfalz, 1987–1991 * ''Geschichtlicher Atlas der Rheinlande, Beiheft V/4: Die Grafschaften Sponheim'', von Johannes Mötsch, Köln: Rheinland-Verlag, 1992 * ''Die ältesten Lehnsbücher der Grafen von Henneberg'', bearbeitet von Johannes Mötsch und Katharina Witter, Weimar: Böhlau, 1996 - * ''Fuldische Frauenklöster in Thüringen: Regesten zur Geschichte der Klöster Allendorf, Kapellendorf und Zella, Rhön'', bearb. und eingel. von Johannes Mötsch, München u.a.: Urban und Fischer, 1999 - * ''Die Wallfahrt zu Grimmenthal: Urkunden, Rechnungen, Mirakelbuch'', herausgegeben von Johannes Mötsch, Köln u.a.: Böhlau, 2004 - * ''Regesten des Archivs der Grafen von Henneberg-Römhild'', Teilbände 1 und 2, herausgegeben von Johannes Mötsch, Köln u.a.: Böhlau, 2006 -

External links

*
Literature by and about Johannes Mötsch
at the catalog of the

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Motsch, Johannes 1949 births Living people Writers from Bonn German archivists 20th-century German historians German male non-fiction writers