Norbert Lossau

Norbert Lossau ( born June 20, 1962 in Meschede ) is a German librarian. He was from 2006 to 2013 director of the Lower Saxony State and University Library (SUB ) and since 2013 Vice- President of the University of Göttingen.

Lossau studied Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian Studies at the Universities of Bonn and Göttingen, where he graduated in 1988, the Master and in 1991 with the dissertation The German Petőfi translations. Hungarian Realienbezeichnungen received his doctorate in linguistic-cultural comparison. After three years as a research assistant at the Finnish -Ugric Department, University of Göttingen Lossau completed 1994-1996 clerkship for the higher library service (at the Goettingen State and University of Applied Sciences Cologne), from which he graduated with the state exam. He then worked the preparatory phase of the DFG project retrospective digitization of library collections and in 1997 took over development and management of the Göttingen Digitization Center. In 1998 he was additionally subject specialist for special collections Hungary, Finland and Finno-Ugric. In the summer of 2001 Lossau joined the University of Oxford, where he first director of the Oxford Digital Library was. In August 2002, he returned as director of the University Library of Bielefeld in Germany. On 1 October 2006 he took over the management of the SUB. 2011 appointed him the Humboldt University in Berlin Honorary Professor. On July 1, he was full-time vice president of the University.