Ottokar Lorenz (17 September 1832 – 13 May 1904) was an Austrian-German

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and

genealogist Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their Lineage (anthropology), lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family ...

. He was born in Iglau (now Jihlava, Czech Republic) and died in

Jena Jena (; ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 in ...

. He was the father of chemist Richard Lorenz (1863-1929). He studied

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, 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

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, being appointed rector in 1880. Afterwards, he was a professor at the

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. He was a founder of modern "scientific

genealogy Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kin ...

". 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). * ''Drei Bücher Geschichte'' (1876; 2nd ed., 1879) (Three books of History). * , two volumes, 1886–87. * ''Geschichte des Elsasses'', ("History of

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"); with Wilhelm Scherer, 3rd edition 1886.Geschichte des Elsasses
HathiTrust Digital Library * ''Genealogisches Handbuch der europäischen Staatengeschichte'', ("Genealogical textbook of European states history"), (1892). * ''Lehrbuch der wissenschaftlichen Genealogie'', ("Textbook of scientific genealogy"), (1898).

References

@ AEIOU Encyclopedia

External links

Genealogy and human heredity in Germany around 1900

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bibliography 19th-century German historians Historians from Austria-Hungary Rectors of universities in Austria-Hungary Academic staff of the University of Vienna Academic staff of the University of Jena 1832 births 1904 deaths German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-academic-bio-stub