Ottokar Lorenz

Ottokar Lorenz (17 September 1832 – 13 May 1904) was an Austrian-German historian and genealogist who was a native of Iglau (today- Jihlava, Czech Republic).

From 1861 to 1885, Lorenz was a professor of history at the University of Vienna, afterwards a professor at the University of Jena. He was a founder of modern "scientific genealogy". Some of his better known written works 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)
• Genealogisches Handbuch der europäischen Staatengeschichte, (Genealogical Textbook of European States History), 1892
• Lehrbuch der wissenschaftlichen Genealogie, (Textbook of Scientific Genealogy), 1898.

References

• Ottokar Lorenz @ AEIOU Encyclopedia

External links

• Genealogy and human heredity in Germany around 1900

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Name	Lorenz, Ottokar
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Date of birth	September 17, 1832
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Date of death	May 13, 1904
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