Ottokar Lorenz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ottokar Lorenz

German historian

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1832

Place of Birth: Jihlava, Vysočina Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 13-May-1904

Profession: professor, historian, genealogist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ottokar Lorenz (17 September 1832 – 13 May 1904) was an Austrian-German historian and genealogist.
He was born in Iglau (now Jihlava, Czech Republic) and died in Jena.
He was the father of chemist Richard Lorenz (1863-1929). He studied philology, history and philosophy in Vienna, where his instructors included Hermann Bonitz, Joseph Aschbach and Albert Jäger.
From 1861 to 1885, Lorenz was a professor of history at the University of Vienna, being appointed rector in 1880.
Afterwards, he was a professor at the University of Jena. He was a founder of modern "scientific genealogy".
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). Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter seit der Mitte des 13.
Jahrhunderts [German history from the middle of the 13th Century]., two volumes, 1886–87. Geschichte des Elsasses, ("History of Alsace"); with Wilhelm Scherer, 3rd edition 1886. Genealogisches Handbuch der europäischen Staatengeschichte, ("Genealogical textbook of European states history"), (1892). Lehrbuch der wissenschaftlichen Genealogie, ("Textbook of scientific genealogy"), (1898).