Ottokar Lorenz

Ottokar Lorenz ( born September 17, 1832 in Jihlava (now Jihlava, Czech Republic), † May 13, 1904 in Jena ) was an Austro- German historian and genealogist.

Life

From 1861 to 1885 Lawrence was a professor of history at the University of Vienna and was considered a leading Austrian historian of his time. Subsequently, he held a professorship at the University of Jena. He is considered the founder of modern " scientific genealogy". Lorenz reached into his textbook of the entire scientific genealogy the end of the 19th century, growing interest in genetics on. He " believed in the familial succession of generations the pulse of world history to feel " in which a society as a whole rhythm was to be seen, which in turn have the sequence of intellectual currents in society result. His conclusions were greeted by biologistically oriented scientists and nationalist -minded cultural philosopher in the 1920s and incorporated into their own considerations.

Among his sons, the chemist Richard Lorenz (1863-1929) and the musicologist Alfred Ottokar Lorenz ( 1868-1939 ). The eponymous Nazi economic historian Ottokar Lorenz (born 1905) was his grandson.

Writings

• German history in the 13th and 14th centuries (2 volumes 1863/67 ),
• Germany's historical sources in the Middle Ages since the mid-13th century ( 1870th 3rd edition in two volumes in 1886 /87),
• Genealogical Handbook of the European States History ( 1892),
• Genealogical hand and school atlas. Hertz, Berlin 1892 ( digitized ).
• Textbook of the entire scientific Genealogy (1898 ).