AUSTRIA Medal by R. Ruepp.Emil von Ottenthal (1855-1931) Austrian historian.60mm

AUSTRIA.

  Bronze Medal Uniface by R. Ruepp.



Emil von Ottenthal (1855-1931). To the Austrian historian.

Obv: portrait to the left.

Rev: Uniface



Condition: UNC

Weight: 88.91 g.

Diameter: 60 mm.

Emil von Ottenthal (15 June 1855, in Sand in
Taufers – 5 February 1931, in Vienna) was an Austrian historian and archivist.



He studied history under Alfons Huber at the University of Innsbruck and with
Theodor von Sickel at the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung
(Institute for Austrian Historical Research) in Vienna. In 1880 he obtained his
habilitation for history at Innsbruck, and from 1882 was associated with the
Austrian Historical Institute in Rome. From 1888 to 1912, with Oswald Redlich,
he published the Archiv-Berichte aus Tirol ("Archive Reports of Tyrol").



In 1889 he became an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck, where
in 1893 he attained a full professorship. In 1904 he succeeded Engelbert
Mühlbacher as professor and director of the Institute for Austrian Historical
Research in Vienna. From 1904 to 1926 he was a member of the central management
of Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

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