Background
He was born in Iglau (now Jihlava, Czechoslovakian Republic) and died in Jena.
genealogist historian university professor
He was born in Iglau (now Jihlava, Czechoslovakian Republic) and died in Jena.
He studied philology, history and philosophy in Vienna, where his instructors included Hermann Bonitz, Joseph Aschbach and Albert Jäger.
He was the father of chemist Richard Lorenz (1863-1929). From 1861 to 1885, Lorenz was a professor of history at the University of Vienna, being appointed rector in 1880. Afterwards, he was a professor at the University of Jena.
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). Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter seit der Mitte des 13.
Jahrhunderts., two volumes, 1886-1887.
Genealogisches Handbuch der europäischen Staatengeschichte, (Genealogical textbook of European states history), (1892). Lehrbuch der wissenschaftlichen Genealogie, (Textbook of scientific genealogy), (1898).