Norbert Lossau

Who is Norbert Lossau?

Norbert Lossau is a German librarian. He has been the Director of the Göttingen State and University Library in Göttingen since 2006.

Lossau studied the Finnish language and Scandinavian studies at the Universities of Bonn and Göttingen, 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 Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum. In 1998, he was also technical advisor for the special collections Hungary, Finland and Finnish-Ugrish. In the summer of 2001 Lossau moved to Oxford University, where he became the first director of the Oxford Digital Library. In August 2002, he returned as director of the Bielefeld University Library in Germany. On 1 October 2006 he became head of the Göttingen State and University Library.