Ottokar Lorenz

Who was Ottokar Lorenz?

Ottokar Lorenz was an Austrian-German historian and genealogist. He was born in Iglau and died in Jena.

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, two volumes

⁕Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter seit der Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts, two volumes,

⁕Genealogisches Handbuch der europäischen Staatengeschichte, 1892

⁕Lehrbuch der wissenschaftlichen Genealogie, 1898.