Johannes Mötsch (born 8 July 1949 in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

) 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 cons ...

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 species; as well as the ...

Life

Johannes Mötsch studied

History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

and Latin

Philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

from 1970 to 1978 at the

Universität Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Will ...

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

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, 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 26,000 (2024).

. He is a member of the Historische Kommission für Thüringen. He is cousin of the physicist Martin Bodo Plenio

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