Norbert Lossau (born 20 June 1962) is a German

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. He has been the Director of the

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from 2006 to 2013. Since 2013 he is Vice President of the University of Göttingen. Lossau studied the Finnish language and Scandinavian studies at the Universities of

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and

, where he graduated in 1988 with a Master's degree. He wrote a PhD thesis on the German Petőfi translations. After three years working as a research associate at the Finnish-Ugrish Department, University of Göttingen, Lossau graduated in 1996 and received the clerkship for the senior library service. He then worked for the preparatory phase of the DFG-project retrospective digitization of library collections and in 1997 took over construction and management of the

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. In 1998, he was also technical advisor for the special collections Hungary, Finland and Finnish-Ugrish. In the summer of 2001 Lossau moved to

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, where he became the first director of the

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. In August 2002, he returned as director of the

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Library in Germany. On 1 October 2006 he became head of the Göttingen State and University Library.

Bibliography

* ''Jahrbuch der Deutschen Bibliotheken''. Band 62, 2007/2008. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, , S. 474.

External links

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Presidential Board of the University of Göttingen

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