Maurus Gandershofer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German librarian
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Place of Birth: Pentling, Bavaria, Germany
About Maurus Gandershofer
- Georg Maurus Gandershofer (22 January 1780, in Pentling – 28 August 1843, in Regensburg) 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 Straubing.
- In 1809/10 he studied philosophy in Landshut, 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 Lorenz von Westenrieder, he became an employee of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
- In 1832 he relocated as a librarian and archivist to Regensburg.
- He also served as librarian of the Historischen Vereins für den Regenkreis (Historical Association for the Regenkreis).
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